Choreographer
Before training at London Contemporary Dance School, Léa studied Modern Literature and History of Art in Lyon where she developed an interest in the international interdisciplinary artistic community, Fluxus, and their ideas of a porous frontier between life and art.
Between 2008 and 2017, she worked as a dancer with companies and choreographers including Clod Ensemble, Seke Chimuntengwende and James Finnemore (UK), José Vidal (Chile); and Bernard Baumgarten and Jean-Guillaume Weis (Luxembourg). Between 2011 and 2013, she was a member of the TanzEnsemble at the Staatstheater Kassel (Germany) where she worked with Johannes Wieland, Chris Haring, Stephanie Thiersch and Michael Langeneckert.
Léa started creating her own work in 2012, interested in physical notions of humour, dysfunction, exhaustion, brutality and the value of instinct in performance practice. Peeling the layers away.
For her company she has made: Simonesand XX - a further study (2013); Elsa in Wonderland(2014); love me tender (2015);TOYS(2017);The Ephemeral life of an octopus(2019 - Aerowaves 2020 Selection);Starving Dingoes(2021); andIn the bushes(2024).
Other commissions include: CAT, Dance City, Newcastle; EDGE, London Contemporary Dance School and the Institute of the Arts Barcelona. In 2023, she was commissioned to create work for Tanzmainz (Germany).
Her work has toured nationally and internationally including to Aerowaves Europe (Croatia), Tanzmesse Düsseldorf (Germany), Avignon Festival (France) and Seoul International Dance Festival (South Korea).
She explores philosophical ideas for each piece she creates.
In 2016, she started working with a lecturer in Philosophy from University College London. She regularly talks to medical students at UCL about her work and she has curated open conversations at the Wellcome Collection. When making The Ephemeral Life of an Octopus, a piece in part about her own experience of cancer, she looked at notions of mind versus body and worked with oncologists, gynaecologists and geneticians to understand the mystery of cells.
In 2020, she became an ambassador for gynaecological cancer charity, The Eve Appeal.
Léa is passionate about reflecting on artistic practice and infusing energy into artistic vision and in 2021 she started mentoring emerging choreographers.
She is regularly invited to teach professional classes, masterclasses and workshops, both nationally and internationally, and her classes are always inclusive and accessible.
Léa was awarded the Arts and Literature Prize from Institut Grand Ducal, Luxembourg in 2016 and the Lëtzebuerger Danzpräis in 2023.
In 2024 she created the podcast The Art of Faux Pas, interviewing peers and colleagues in the dance and theatre world, around the notion of Failure in the creative process / industry.