Gisèle Vienne Director / choreographer / visual artist

Gisèle Vienne was born in 1976, she is Franco-Austrian and now lives and works in Grenoble and Paris. After graduating in Philosophy at University, she studied at the puppeteer school Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette from 1996 to 1999. She's a choreographer/director, performer and visual artist. She choreographed and staged with Etienne Bideau-Rey Splendid's by Jean Genet in 2000, Showroomdummies in 2001, Stéréotypie in 2003, and Tranen Veinzen in 2004. Since 2004, she has choreographed and directed, in collaboration with the writer Dennis Cooper, "I Apologize" (2004), "Une belle enfant blonde / A young, beautiful blond girl (2005)", "Kindertotenlieder" (2007) and "Jerk", a radio play in the framework of the "atelier de création radiophonique" of France Culture (June 2007) and the play "Jerk" (2008). Gisèle Vienne has been awarded for the Villa Kujoyama grant during fall 2007. In 2009, she created Eternelle Idole with an ice skater and an actor and the rewriting of "Showroomdummies" with Etienne Bideau-Rey. She has been an actress in several of Patric Chiha's film such as "Home" (2006) and "Domaine" (2009), in the later she worked as a choreographer too. She also created and directed a dummy for Paul Otchakovsky Laurens' film, Sablé-sur-Sarthe (2009). Since 2005, she has been frequently exhibiting her photographs and installations. As particularly in La Force de l'Art at Grand Palais in Paris in 2006, at Centre Atlantique de la Photographie in Brest in 2007 and for the exhibition "Stay with Art" in Osaka in 2007. With Etienne Bideau-Rey, she wrote two publications, "Corps/Objet - Sur le rapport du corps au corps artificial", published by the Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble.