{"id":522,"date":"2026-03-11T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/?page_id=522"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:04:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Preparatory stage – Le point z\u00e9ro<\/em> \u00a9Ilyan Gomez<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A dancer and artist for nearly fifteen years, I currently collaborate with Christian Rizzo (\u00e0 l’ombre d’un vaste d\u00e9tail<\/em>, hors temp\u00eate<\/em> – 2025), La Zampa company (Empire<\/em> \u2013 2025 and Ceinture de Feu<\/em> \u2013 2026), Youness Aboulakoul (Ayta<\/em> \u2013 2024) and Nefeli Asteriou (Tear<\/em> \u2013 2026). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Eight years ago, the shooting of the film Benedetta<\/em> by Paul Verhoeven and the discovery, that same year, of Super 8 filmmaking, marked a true turning point in my artistic career, which had until then been essentially choreographic.
Since then, I have continuously explored the possible contact zones between dance and cinema.
These zones are spaces that I unfold, that I question, and that fuel my creative drive. I consider them as places of thought, movement and objects, and they form my artistic, political and intimate identity.
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Shooting Le point z\u00e9ro: ensemble 3<\/em> \u00a9Joseph Kraft
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Creation La belle humeur<\/em> [ La Zampa ] \u00a9Pierre Ricci
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Creation Empire<\/em> [ La Zampa ] | CCN de Montpellier<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Whether in visual art or dance, what inspires me is intrinsically linked to our era; while observing my roots, I try to take the pulse of what surrounds me in order to deploy my own zones of creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Starting from this premise, the dancing subjects and\/or characters of my films are never isolated; they are part of an attempt to make their stories resonate on a more collective scale. I create my works by conceiving them as a contemporary fresco, traversed by different artistic currents and cinematic genres, juxtaposing layers of underground narratives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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My relationship to territory and the elements was completely upended when, over the course of two years, I had the opportunity to participate in four artistic sailing tours. Since then, it has become impossible for me to dissociate an artistic work from the environment \u2014 real, fictional or fantasized \u2014 that constitutes it. The setting, the territorial context and what it implies in terms of imaginaries, cultures and relationships with living beings, have become one of the major focal points of my attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Festina Lente | Port of Licata, Sicily \u00a9Aur\u00e9lie Lemoine
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Soeur<\/em> [ Compagnie Roselend ] \u00a9 Yves Heud\u00e8s<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I conceive my works with the idea that an artistic object must define its own territory and establish its own laws, which cannot be limited to dominant narrative, aesthetic, moral or political norms. It is along this line of thinking that I developed the Le point z\u00e9ro<\/em> corpus project, comprising four short films, in collaboration with geologist Baptiste Lepillier and the state-funded contemporary dance company La Zampa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, my work is rooted in the tension generated by disparity: between documentary and fiction, figurative and abstract, cinema and contemporary dance, narrative and concept, collective and self-sufficiency\u2026 I thus strive to develop narratives at the edge of distinct worlds, to open up a cohabitation, in order to invite the uncanny into my creations. Like an invitation to let oneself slide into a space made of frictions, opening access to new narratives, drawing the contours of a contemporary mythology of my own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Preparatory stage – Le point z\u00e9ro \u00a9Ilyan Gomez A dancer and artist for nearly fifteen years, I currently collaborate with Christian Rizzo (\u00e0 l’ombre d’un vaste d\u00e9tail, hors temp\u00eate – 2025), La Zampa company (Empire \u2013 2025 and Ceinture de Feu \u2013 2026), Youness Aboulakoul (Ayta \u2013 2024) and Nefeli Asteriou (Tear \u2013 2026). Eight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/about\/","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annavanneau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}