Mina Clair is a freelance performer based in Marseille, as well as one of the founding members of the newly created R.A.W. collective with Laure Dubanet and Ella Posti. Her practice involves the research storytelling through body and voice, to connect meaning to movement, and to explore somatic approaches.
Mina is a graduate of the MA Dance: Performance programme at LCDS, where she was a member of the inaugural Cohort 01.
During the programme she worked with project leaders such as Theo Clinkard, Jenna Jalonen, Hannes Langolf, Paleta, Benjamin Jonsson, AE Company (Aoi Nakamura & Esteban Lecoq), Edivaldo Ernesto, Horacio Macuacua, Jozef Frucek and Alexandra Reynolds under the course leadership of Tom English, Tina Afiyan Breiova and Dr Andrew Sanger and working closely with individual mentor Theo Clinkard.
IG handle: minaclr
Meeting Hannes Langolf and discovering his approach to meaning and movement was fundamental in my performer’s experience. Not only did it refine my dancing and theater skills, but it also helped me develop my critical sense and my choreographic eye.