For the first time, Gisèle Vienne presents all the dolls she has staged throughout her career. Taking on the role of photographer of her own creations, she offers a frontal and deliberately descriptive vision of this family of characters accumulated over the years and in the choreographer's various works.
Gisèle Vienne (born 1976 in Charleville-Mézières, France, lives and works in Paris) is a franco-austrian
choreographer,
director and visual artist. After graduating in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. She works regularly with, among other, the writer
Dennis Cooper, the musicians
Peter Rehberg and
Stephen O'Malley, and the light designer Patrick Riou.
She directs numerous performances with her company founded in 1999. Since 2005, she has been frequently exhibiting her photographs and installations.