Saunier, Johanne

danced with the Rosas company of Anne Teresa De Keersmaker for twelve years. In 1998, she created JOJI INC with Jim Clayburgh. In 2000, she received the Bagnolet Award. Her project Erase-E (X), carried out in collaboration with diverse artists, The Wooster Group (New York), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Georges Aperghis, Kurt d’Haeseleer, and Isabella Soupart, toured for four years. She worked with the French director Jean-François Sivadier on four classical operas, featuring singers such as Nathalie Dessay. Her voice-including parts can be seen in many contemporary operatic projects, such as Guy Cassiers’s Lear, François Sarhan and Quatuor Diotima, Line of Oblivion with Arturo Fuentes, Luna Park with Ictus Ensemble, Aperghis in IRCAM and Musée en Chantier for JOJI INC. Her Ballets Confidentiels with Ine Claes was given a carte blanche at the Festival Paris Quartier d’Été 2016.