biographies: Programme three

Doria Belanger

Trained in contemporary dance as a dance performer in France (Coline school) and England (London Contemporary Dance School), collaborating, with Ballets C de la B, Mathilde Monnier, Emanuel Gat, Ben Duke and more recently Mélanie Perrier of Compagnie 2 minimum among others, French director Doria Belanger has been developing since a few years personal works which can be showcased as video installations (DONNEZ-MOI UNE MINUTE, JOULE), choreographic pieces (JOULE-IN SITU, NUIT INTÉRIEURE) and dance films (VENT APPARENT, UNE ÎLE DE DANSE). This path interests her as it enables her to "capture the dance", warding off the ephemeral dimension of the live performance by enriching it with a pictural approach.

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Formée à la danse contemporaine en tant que danseuse-interprète en France (formation Coline) et en Angleterre (London Contemporary Dance School), collaborant avec, entre autres, les Ballets C de la B, Mathilde Monnier, Emanuel Gat, Ben Duke ou plus récemment Mélanie Perrier au sein de la Compagnie 2Minimum, la réalisatrice Doria Belanger développe depuis quelques années un travail personnel qui se donne à voir sous la forme d’installations vidéo (DONNEZ-MOI UNE MINUTE, JOULE), de propositions chorégraphiques in situ (JOULE-IN SITU, NUIT INTÉRIEURE) et de films dansés (VENT APPARENT, UNE ILE DE DANSE). Ce chemin l’intéresse en ce qu’il permet de « capturer la danse », en conjurant la dimension éphémère du spectacle vivant tout en l’enrichissant d’une dimension picturale.

Editta Braun

Editta Braun  * 1958 in Austria, pioneer of contemporary choreography in Austria. Academic degree in Science of Sports and German Language and Literature (University of Salzburg). Studied dance in Paris and New York, 40 years of teaching, including at the University of Salzburg and the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. Has created more than 30 productions (physical theater, dance) and tours worldwide with her company. Has turned towards experimental short films since 2020. Characteristics: intercultural collaborations, politically engaged, feminist view on society and arts.

Ray Jacob

RAY JACOBS is a UK based artist who uses the mediums of image, film and movement to highlight the narratives that surround us all.

He works to create imaginative works with a wide variety of groups and companies, in particular collaborating with disabled artists.

Award winning films include The Sea Reminds Me, Bastion, Four Solos in the Wild and Your Rocky Spine.

Ray is co-director of Shropshire inclusive Dance and performance director of Arty Party a charity focused on supporting learning disabled artists to share work with the public.

Rui Su

Rui graduated in 2020 from Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China, majoring in choreography. Rui is currently pursuing a master’s degree in dance at Bath Spa University in the United Kingdom.

Rui’s choreographic works have received several awards, including the Best Work Award at the 3rd Sichuan Youth Dance Showcase and the Third Prize for Choreography at the 2nd Sichuan Emerging Dance Creators Competition. She was also granted the Academic Research Award by Sichuan Conservatory of Music.

Rui worked as the choreographer for the narrative film Village Music, which was selected by multiple international film festivals.

In 2025, Rui performed in the dance film small hour, a collaborative project with British installation artist Kate Mcdonnellart and dance film director Dan Martin.

Rui was also invited to perform as an improvisational dancer in Ssynapse, an installation work by British artist Alyson Minkley.

Danièle Wilmouth

Danièle Wilmouth is fascinated by the unconscious choreography of ordinary life and how cinema reveals the miraculous spectacle of the everyday. She creates hybrid forms of film, video, installation, and live art that explore ritual, pattern, monotony, and impermanence. Her work investigates mediation of the choreographed body—constructing performances exclusively for the camera, as well as experimental approaches to social issue documentary. In 1990 she began a six-year residency in Osaka, Japan, where she performed Butoh dance, and co-founded Hairless Films, a multi-national independent filmmaking collective. She currently teaches Film, Video, New Media and Performance at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Wilmouth's works have been exhibited at a variety of venues around the globe including the Kunst Museum Bonn, the National Gallery of Armenia, Television Canal+(a), Argentina, PBS WTTW, Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, Tampere Short Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Cambridge International Film Festival, Siobhan Davies Studios, Dumbo Art Center, Echo Arts Cyprus, the American Dance Festival, Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the National Gallery, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

A collection of her short films was included in the 2023 Chiayi International Art Documentary Film Festival in Taiwan. She was a featured ‘Artist in Focus’ at the 2022 Jumping Frames Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival, as well as the 2016 BODY+ACT exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. In 2013, she was featured in Dance Films Association’s ‘Meet the Artist Series’ with a solo show at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrospectives of Wilmouth's works have been held in South Korea (2012, EXiS Film Festival, Korean Film Archives, Seoul), and Russia (2004, St. Petersburg International Dance Film Festival).