NATACHA PAQUIGNON
Project designer - Author - Choreographer - Dancer
Trained as a dancer, Natacha is the choreographer of Compagnie Corps Au Bord, a dance and digital art company working on body-landcape and body-technology relationship. She is interested in how body and environment mutually transform. In an environment filled with tools and technologies, she develops a research that questions the way in which these technologies modify our relationship with the world and our interpersonal relations. She places the body at the root of the possible human-machine dialogue.
She combines the relationship between body, landscape and technology in augmented reality choreographic works. These works are based on an imaginary relationship with the landscape: the places include dances. Dancers live here, in a dimension invisible to the naked eye. They are there, waiting for someone to make them appear. This danced dimension of the site is accessible via the smartphone, which becomes (again) a mediation tool between us and our environment, a tool for exploring reality, a window onto the world rather than a small world in itself. These works speak about the relationship between the visible and the invisible, between physical and immaterial bodies.
At the same time, she creates stage hybrid performances in which the dancers' bodies enter into a relationship with a real-time motion capture device. These works question our relationship with technologies, with a specific focus on the possible relationship between human dancers and an Artificial Intelligence system, and on the differences between the time of the body and the time of technology.
She is in charge of dance programming at the hybrid venue Toï Toï Le Zinc in Villeurbanne. In 2024, she co-founded the Qi Dance Company with Maître Ke Wen, becoming the co-artistic director and choreographer of this dance and martial arts company.