Born in 1959, Monnier was awarded the Ministry of Culture Prize at the Bagnolet International Choreography Competition in 1986 for her work "Cru." In 1994 she became artistic director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, where she began a series of collaborations with artists working in many different disciplines. She was particularly influenced by jazz musician Louis Sclavis. Monnier has been working with autistic people, adopting an approach to space and the human body based on the perspective of a cooperative unit. She is a standard bearer for contemporary dance in Europe, debuting many of her works at the Avignon Festival. We present the first Japanese performances of "Pudique Acide/Extasis," a restaging developed in 2011 of two duos that Monnier choreographed in collaboration with Jean-François Duroure: "Pudique Acide" (1984) and "Extasis" (1985).

©Marc Coudrais

　

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