Loïrys Doleson
Cie Logarithm
Cie Logarithm is a contemporary dance company founded by Loïrys Doleson following her receipt of the First Prize at the choreographic event À pas de loup in December 2022 with her solo piece HORS D’ELLE. The event was organized by the Grand Pic Saint-Loup Community of Municipalities in partnership with EPSEDANSE.
As part of the award, the Grand Pic Saint-Loup Community funded the creation of a full-length piece for the following season.
The company’s first production, PERSPECTIVE, is a 40-minute trio performed by Marion Marlot, Maïwenn Regnier, and Loïrys Doleson.
The premiere took place on October 24, 2024, at the Espace Georges Brassens in Saint-Gély-du-Fesc.
Her Story
Loïrys Doleson trained at Espace Danse Alès and later at EPSEDANSE, where she earned her State Diploma in Jazz Dance. She has worked as a performer with Anne-Marie Porras’ Poisson Pilote Company, Jos Poujol’s Singulier Pluriel Company, and Didier Théron. Following a choreographic competition organized by the Grand Pic Saint Loup, she founded her own company, Logarithm, through which she continues to develop her artistic projects.
With a growing interest in literature, painting, and singing, she explores a universe in her creations that blends these influences. She teaches and works with a variety of audiences, driven by a deep desire to pass on what she has received.
Her Project
Les veilleuses
Set against landscapes darkened by cruelty, this piece reflects on those who protect life even before it comes into the world. These isolated mothers embody a shared strength of vitality and transmission. They invent tenderness and protection where violence and terror prevail.
The piece brings together the voices and bodies of six women who honor the visceral and timeless bond between a mother and her child. Through their bodies, they express the tension between hostility and gentleness, rebellion and resilience.
They whisper the fragile hope of a future yet to be born. Through dance and breath, they shape a space where, despite the chaos, love still stands watch.
Bente Bulens
Bente Bulens is a dancer, explorer, and performer who graduated from PERA - School of Performing Arts in Cyprus. Where she focused on the technical fundamentals of contemporary dance, improvisation, and composition while exploring her individuality.
In her education, she participated in deep processes and performed in different performances by Jos Baker, Rafaela Sahyoun, Anton Lachky, Guy Nader & Maria Campos, and Sevim Akpinar. She co-created a duet with Beata Rekemova called ‘Attracted by repulsion’, performed in various European festivals in 2023. She also choreographed her solo called ' beyond after', which won the first prize in the ICC Linkage and was supported by Danspunt in Belgium in 2023/2024. Before she started her bachelor's degree at PERA, she was a member of G.A.P., Gangaray artistic program in Budapest. Here she could dive into the practices of Hámor József and Timea Mayday Kinga.
Bente has developed a strong interest in the absurdness of a movement, density, repetition, surrealism, and the search for exhaustion in certain movement qualities.
Her Project
I am opening up the next chapter in my solo. The solo I am currently working on is about the
first impression, arrival, and sad discovery of my entry into the afterlife. I would like to create
an extension, a new layer reflecting finding comfort. Where do we go next? What do we
taste, smell, feel, see …? How is the comfort after discomfort?
I’d like to think of my specific afterlife as a spiral, changing levels, floors, rooms, and
landscapes. Just as we change and move ourselves through life.
My existing part of my solo (15min) reflects the arrival, not at all what I expected.
What I will be researching from now on is whether the place we end up after our death fulfills
our expectations. Reuniting with materials, objects, smells, tastes, and people we cared for
and found comfort in?
I deeply vibrate with dreams and surrealism, and I am positive this is connected with each of
us afterlife.
I am envisioning a total shift in scenery, going from something plain, white, cold, empty,
heavy, sad to something vibrant, safe, known, happy, full, colorful, playful, warm
environment.
I would like to invest my new movement research and creation on gestures, beat, and
relating to a new way of living in the landscape created through the afterlife.
And most of all, letting go of the grief within me.
Clément Lefebvre
Clément Lefebvre is a multidisciplinary artist and French choreographer. He is also a composer and sound engineer, under the pseudonym Crunch.
Today, his artistic approach explores the connections between movement(s) and sound aspects, the relationship between dance and music, and the combination of technical and artistic know-how. He is involved in various projects that seek to bring art and audiences together, as well as cultural and social contexts, by developing interactive elements and participatory dimensions in his work, whether alone or in collaboration.
In this capacity, he is the co-founder of the Radical Home project, as well as a founding member of the Collectif Grenade, two initiatives aimed at bringing together social engagement and artistic practice.
His Story
Clément Lefebvre is a French multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, composer, and sound engineer. Trained at Cours Florent in Paris, then at the University of Lille in Dance Studies and at ACFA Multimédia in Montpellier in sound engineering, he develops a practice that intertwines movement, sound, and interactive creation. His work explores the relationship between art and audiences, and between cultural and social contexts, through participatory and collaborative projects.
Together with Katya Bondar, he founded the duo kat+cle and the artistic solidarity project Radical Home, which later became an association promoting a collective, equitable, and accessible approach to culture. He is also a member of the Grenade artistic collective, which works to make art and culture accessible in socially and economically marginalized contexts.
He lives and works in Montpellier, France.
His Project
E_MOTION
E_MOTION is an (almost) solo work, created and performed in a performative manner. It is an interdisciplinary project in which artistic and technical aspects merge into one on stage. This work invites the audience to explore the realm of emotions universal phenomena shared by all human beings.
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The project stems from a reflection on exploration, as well as the desire to stage the complex interactions of emotions, the place they can occupy in our society, and in our relationships with others.
The notions of singularity and plurality, of solitude and community, are addressed through different chapters that unfold at the pace of life that is, randomly and unpredictably.
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Halfway between a solo and a collaborative piece, between dance and music, this work is also an invitation to the audience to reclaim the stage space. It questions the ways in which we can feel, express ourselves, interact, be considered, and see ourselves whether alone or with others.