​DEMESTRI + LEFEUVRE is the company behind the various artistic projects of French-Argentinian dancers and choreographers Florencia Demestri and Samuel Lefeuvre. Over the past few years, they have embarked on a cycle of creations questioning the imaginary worlds on which we build our relationship to the world and to living things, as well as a project entitled «Cellules de Recherche Nomades» (Nomadic Research Cells), driven by the desire to move around, creating encounters to nourish and renew their questioning outside the confines of production. By exploring non-anthropocentric dramaturgies that seek to establish relationships of affection with living non-humans, D+L invite us to de-hierarchize our gaze and privilege a sensory, non-analytical apprehension of the world.
The company DEMESTRI & LEFEUVRE gives shape to the various artistic projects of Franco-Argentinian dancers and choreographers Florencia Demestri and Samuel Lefeuvre. For several years, they have started a cycle of creations questioning the imaginations on which we build our relationship with the world and living things, as well as a project entitled "Nomadic Research Cells" driven by the desire to move, by creating meetings to nourish and renew their questions outside the production paths. Through the exploration of non-anthropocentric dramaturgies which seek to establish relationships of affection with non-human living things, D+L invite us to de-hierarchize our gaze and to favor a sensory and non-analytical apprehension of the world.
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Florence Demestri
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Multidisciplinary artist from
from Argentina, Florencia Demestri lives and
has been working in Brussels since 2003. During
her youth, she studied theater,
circus and contemporary dance in
Argentina, then Brazil, Cuba and
Spain. In 2006 she finished her studies at
ESAC by obtaining the Great Distinction
of the jury. Passionate about choreography and
performance, it naturally
focused on dance companies
the school gate. She has been working since
15 years for choreographers such as:
Lisi Estaràs (Les Ballets C. de la B.), David
Zambrano, Karine Ponties, Roberto Olivan,
Finger Six collective, the Sprain Group, and
recently with Monia Montali and François
Bodeux. Since 2010, alongside this
work as an interpreter, she also began
his own choreographic research and
collaborated with different artists: Claudio
Stellato (The Last Days Project), Piergiorgio
Milano (Do you love me?) and Peter Jasko and
Simon Thierrée (Spring Quartet).
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Samuel Lefeuvre
After training in dance in Caen and
CNDC of Angers, Samuel Lefeuvre settles
in Brussels in 2001, and works for the
company Michèle Anne De Mey then for
Les Ballets C. de la B. (Wolf by Alain Platel,
and La Mancha, Patchagonia and Primero/
Erscht by Lisi Estaràs). During creation
de Wolf, he meets Gabriela
Carrizo and Franck Chartier, who invited him to
join Peeping Tom for creations
The Living Room and The Basement. In 2007, he founded
the group ENTORSE with the musician
Raphaëlle Latini, with whom he created the
shows ACCIDENS (what happens),
[àut], High Resilience and Hauntology. He has
participated in the creation of the Court of Honor of
Jérôme Bel for the 2014 Avignon Festival
and has been collaborating for several years with
Boris Charmatz/TERRAIN (10,000 Gestures,
20 Dancers for the 20th Century, The
Rush, La Ronde).