Christophe Haleb

Christophe Haleb is a choreographer, filmmaker, and the artistic director of La Zouze. After a dancing career in the 1980s with François Verret, Rui Horta, Andy Degroat, Angelin Prejlocaj and Daniel Larrieu, Christophe Haleb set up his own company, La Zouze, in 1993 and began to create his own works. He has been living and working in Marseille since 2003. In parallel to La Zouze, he became director of an artistic research and creation lab, Dans les Parages, in 2014, hosting artists in residence. His projects underscore the intertwining of creative forms for the stage and atypical spaces, always questioning space, movement and physical sensations. His stage works include: Idyllique, Sous les Pieds des Citoyens Vivants, La Marche des Vierges, Domestic Flight, Liquide, CommunExtase and Retour sur Terre. In situ and performance works: Evelyne House of Shame, Architecture des Contemplatifs at the Mucem, Résidence Secondaire, Decamper. Performative installations:* Entropic Now, Fama, Atlas but Not List)* and films: Un sueño despierto, Entropico. La Zouze operates as an experimental lab for staged and film works, with a focus on the ways in which society drives us and generates disparate forms of action and living. His choreography always takes inspiration from a particular context to create a set of artistic practices that question the state of the world and its impact on the body, reality, desire and imagination. Inside and out, Christophe Haleb operates in situ, both within and against the situation. He practices his art in a variety of spaces, intended or not for performances, inviting dancers and the audience to experience the poetry of relationships.