Fabrice Lambert

As a pioneering figure of the staging of mankind’s growing hold over the natural elements, the Anthropocene, Fabrice Lambert’s work is distinguished by its undeniable ecological awareness. He is interested in the fate of the human species and explore its place in the cosmos and on earth.

As a visual artist of the movement, he conceptualizes the spaces of bodies. Through his emblematic relationship with light, he draws the extension of danced gestures. He works on the notion of body landscape, bringing to life the fundamental equation linking nature and humanity.

As a writer of dance, he creates a fine, precise, chiseled choreographic score that allows the force of energy to unfold. His aim is to bring together the mundane and the extraordinary, the natural and the mechanical, the intimate and the collective. Today, when we are concerned about our futures, his work gives us hope and nourishment.

After training at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers, Fabrice Lambert performed with the Kubilai Khan Investigations collective, the Carolyn Carlson company, and with Catherine Diverrès at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes for several years, then with François Verret, Emmanuelle Huynh and Rachid Ouramdane.

Since 2000, he has been the artistic director of The Expérience Harmaat, where he pursues his research and creative work. The Expérience Harmaat is conceived as a crossroads, that brings together creators from different art fields around the choreographer’s projects. What they have in common is that each in their own way, their work question the notions of phenomenon and movement.

Visual artists, video-makers, engineers and dancers are all involved in the creation of numerous pieces: No Body, Never Mind and TOPO (2001) are two parts of a research project on the perception of the body and its hijacking by images. This was followed by seven creations at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis: Le rêve (2002) captures the essence of this questioning through the confrontation of a film and a solo in the form of a dialogue using the same material: the performer’s body. Play Mobile (2003) explores the boundaries of this same body in an enveloping sound device, in an enclosed space that confronts it with its limits. Imposture (2004) is a piece for two performers and a video artist, taking up Paul Virilio’s idea of the integral accident. This was followed by Fréderic Lambert (2004 – commissioned by SACD / Le Sujet à Vif), Abécédaire (2005), meutes (2006), Gravité (2007), D’Eux (2008), Virga (2009 – commissioned by SACD / Le Vif du Sujet), Solaire (2010), Rites of Memory (2011) commissioned by Ahn Aesoon Dance/Korea) and, Faux Mouvement (2012). The work that follows, Nervures, is a collaboration with visual artist Xavier Veilhan, premiered in November 2013 at the Centre national de la danse and revived in January 2014 at the Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, which has regularly hosted his creations since 2012.

Jamais Assez, a piece for 10 dancers, was premiered in July 2015 at the Festival d’Avignon, then presented at the Centre Pompidou – Paris, and the Festival TransAmériques – Montreal. Aujourd’hui, Sauvage, a piece for 7 dancers and 1 musician was premiered in September 2018, at the Biennale de la danse de Lyon, then presented notably at the Centre Pompidou – Paris. Seconde Nature, a quartet in collaboration with Jacques Perconte, premieres in 2020 at the Théâtre de la Ville – Paris.

Fabrice Lambert was artist-in-residence at the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin from 2012 to 2015. Since then, he has been associate artist at the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, scène nationale, from 2016 to 2018, at the Maison de la Musique de Nanterre, scène conventionnée, from 2018 to 2022, and at the Centre des Bords de Marne du Perreux-sur-Marne, from 2020 to the end of 2023.

He becomes associate artist at the Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national “art et création” in September 2023 for 3 seasons.