Analyzing his own work but also the emblematic works of Brazilian artists Luiz de Abreu, Micheline Torres and Marcelo Evelin, the dancer and choreographer Volmir Cordeiro invents here, through writing, a sensitive form where creation is inextricably linked to his position as a researcher and to his view as a spectator
Born in 1987 in Brazil,
dancer and choreographer Volmir Cordeiro firstly graduated in theater and worked with the Brazilian choreographers Alejandro Ahmed, Cristina Moura et Lia Rodrigues. Volmir Cordeiro graduated in 2012 from Essais, Angers Choreographic Center's experimental dance training, with
Céu, a much-regarded solo work that extensively toured European and Brazilian dance festivals, and he has completed a PhD thesis on the figures of marginality in contemporary dance. Volmir Cordeiro has performed in the projects of
Xavier Le Roy, Laurent Pichaud, Rémy Héritier,
Emmanuelle Huynh, Jocelyn Cottencin et Vera Mantero. In 2014, he created the solo
Inês, and in 2015, the duet
Epoque with the Paris based chilean dancer Marcela Santander Corvalán. He has closed a first cycle of his work, made of the three solos:
Céu,
Inês and
Rue (created in october 2015 at Musée du Louvre, in collaboration with FIAC). Volmir Cordeiro was the associate artist at Ménagerie de Verre in 2015 and since 2017 is associate artiste at
Centre National de la Danse (CND - Pantin). Volmir regularly teaches in choreography courses such as Master Exerce in Montpellier (France), or Master Drama in Gent (Belgium).
