A versatile artist, trained in architecture and contemporary dance, Claire Dessimoz works as a choreographer between theater, dance and contemporary art.
Aesthetically, she is committed to a practice of the small and the subtle. She works with bodies and what they communicate – through their presence on stage, as a group or as individuals, or through their words, which she aims to capture and restitute with precision. Her work deals with community and social issues. How can we imagine ways of living alongside each other that leave space for diversity, mistakes and disagreements? She strives to bring heterogeneous thoughts into dialogue, while fighting against the siren call of consensus. Never dogmatic, she offers complex but joyful pieces, seeking to shake up preconceptions and certitudes, and above all, to show things in the full range of their complexity, fighting actively against shortcuts and oversimplification.
Claire also cultivates collaborations with other artists along her solo practice, enriching her practice with perspectives from her peers and seeking to destabilise (her) certainties. She was artist in residence at Arsenic Lausanne from 2017 to 2020. Her most recent pieces include current currents and Grand Miroir, as well as collaborations Le Recueil des miracles (with Louis Schild, 2024) and Festival (with Clara Delorme and Louis Bonard, 2024).