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Alexandre Achour is a second generation Algerian jew immigrant, born in France in 1982. He grew up in France and Spain, studied in the UK and Germany and he now lives in Berlin. He works as a choreographer and performer in the field of contemporary arts, disability arts and art education.

In his artistic practice, he explores Arturo Escobar’s decolonial concept of pluriverse by creating choreographic frameworks that experiment with the weavings of worlds, and the poetics of togetherness, interdependence and relationally. His performance "Harmonias" (Berlin,2023) explored Hindustani, Arabic, African American, Moluccan and Balkan harmonic views with the idea to engage with a poly-phonic, poly-cultural, and poly-authorial process. Whereas the performance "一起 PLAY" gathered artists from Honk Kong, Macau and Guangzhou to engage in a process of decentering singular perspectives, aesthetics and models of work. 

 

He uses Live Action Role-Playing Games (larp) as a means to experiment with his practice. In 2023 he initiated the project "Choreographic Games" (Berlin, 2023), which paired a larp designer with a dance artist to explore the intersection between choreography and larp. during this process he developed "Dance with me" in collaboration with Larp designer Nina Runa Essendrop, which explores support as a choreographic principle in the fiction of a rehearsal and the fiction of a performance. 

As a maker, co-direction and co-authroship are an important part of his practice. With non-disabled artist Saša Asentić, disabled artist Natalija Vladisavljević and disabled artist Dalibor Šandor, he collaborates to make performances for theatre and museums in Germany and Serbia. In collaboration with non-disabled artist Guo Rui he makes performances for theatre and museums in Macau and China. 

As a performer and artistic collaborator, he has worked with Tino Sehgal, Xavier Le Roy, Luísa Saraiva, Jonas Woltemate, Annick Charlot, Monica Antezana, Shang-Chi Sun.

He was in 2021-22 artistic research fellow of the pre-PhD programme PEERS from Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He was in 2018 a fellow of the Pina Bausch foundation. He was artist in residence in K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg, PACT Zollverein and Foundation Boghossian. His work was supported by the cultural programme of the European Union through the Project « Life Long Burning », Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Senate Department for Culture and Community, Fonds Darstellende Künste, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program. He holds an MA in choreography from Hochschule übergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin. He graduated from a Bachelor of Arts from London Contemporary Dance School and a Bachelor of Biology from Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France. 

EDUCATION

2021 - 2022

PEERS Pre-PhD program at the Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK) 

2010 - 2012

Master of Choreography at HZT Berlin

 

2005 - 2008

Bachelor of Arts at London Contemporary Dance School

2004 - 2005

EAT Diploma at Conservation National et Régional de danse Lyon

2001 - 2004

Bachelor of Biology et Geology at Université Claude Bernard Lyon

GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES

2023

Global Exchange (Berlin Senat), Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Recherche Stipendium, Dist-Tanz solo (Neustart Kultur), Cultural Foundation of Macao, French Institute of Canton, Goethe Institute

2022

Tanzpraxis, Takeheart Residency (FdK)

2021

Recherchestipendien (Berlin Senat), Take Care Solo (FdK), Dis-Tanz-Solo (Neustart Kultur)

2020

Global Exchange Stipends (Berlin Senat)

2018

Pina Bausch fellowship, Residency Fondation Boghossian

2014 - 2015

K3 | Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg residency program

2014

Life long Burning 

2013 - 2014

Elsa Neumann Stipendium des Landes Berlin fellowship

2013

Pact Zollverein residency 

2010 - 2012

ELES stipendium

TEACHING

2023 - 2024

Guest Professor

Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen Ottersberg

2020

Guest Professor

Institute for Applied Theatre Studies Gießen

 

2018

Analysis of seminal choreographies from dance history in Germany Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Gießen

 

2018

Dancing one's private bio-politics today

NAVE, Santiago

 

2016

I’ve got you

Impusltanz, Vienna

PROJECTS / COLLABORATIONS

2024

Dis Contact, performance co-directed with Saša Asentić, Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (FR)  

Dance with me, larp developed in collaboration with Nina Runa Essendrop, Solmukhota, Tampere (FI) 

一起 PLAY, performance for gallery spaces developed in collaboration with Guo Rui, Time Museum, Guangzhou (CN)

一起 PLAY, performance developed in collaboration with Guo Rui, T Theatre Macau (CN-MO)

 

2023

 

Harmonias, performance, Uferstudios Berlin (DE)

Choreographic Games, larp, Berlin (DE)

Dance with me, larp developed in collaboration with Nina Runa Essendrop, Institute für Theater Therapie, Remscheid (DE)

Dance for the 21st Century, performance in collaboration with Natalija Vladisavljević, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski & Saša Asentić, Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)

Dis Contact, performance co-directed with Saša Asentić, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)

2022

Time to Care, larp developed in collaboration with Saša Asentić and Nadja Lipsyc, Genezarethkirche, Berlin (DE)

Dance for the 21st Century, performance in collaboration with Natalija Vladisavljević, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski & Saša Asentić, HAU, Berlin (DE)

Dance for the 21st Century, performance in collaboration with Natalija Vladisavljević, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski & Saša Asentić, Staatstheater Mainz (DE)

We are not Monsters, performance for museum, made by Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu, Alexandre Achour, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski, Dalibor Šandor and Saša Asentić, Gallery of Matica srpska, Novi Sad (RS)

Dance for the 21st Century, performance in collaboration with Natalija Vladisavljević, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski & Saša Asentić, München Kammerspiele (DE)

Dis_Sylphide, a dance piece on disability and german dance history, collaboration on the choreography, Théâtre de la ville Paris (FR)

Le Sacre du Printemps (2022), performance developed in collaboration with Diana Anselmo, Saša Asentić, Xavier Le Roy & Scarlet Yu, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)

Dance Perspectives, performance for gallery spaces developed in collaboration with Guo Rui, Centro de Cultura e Artes Performativas Cardeal Newman de Macau (CN - MO)

2021

We are not Monsters, performance for museum, made by Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu, Alexandre Achour, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski, Dalibor Šandor and Saša Asentić, Berlinische Gallery (DE)

Dance for the 21st Century, performance in collaboration with Natalija Vladisavljević, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski & Saša Asentić, Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)

DIS_move, online dance work in collaboration with Saša Asentić

 

2020

 

Dis_Sylphide, a dance piece on disability and german dance history, collaboration on the choreography, Tanzplattform, München Kammerspiele (DE)

We are not Monsters, performance for museum, made by Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu, Alexandre Achour, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski, Dalibor Šandor and Saša Asentić, Gallery of Matica srpska, Novi Sad (RS)

 

2019

We are not Monsters, performance for museum, made by Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu, Alexandre Achour, Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski, Dalibor Šandor and Saša Asentić, Gallery of Matica srpska, Novi Sad (RS)

Tanz in der DDR: Was bleibt?, performance co-directed with Saša Asentić, Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)

Dis_Sylphide, a dance piece on disability and german dance history, collaboration on the choreography, Hellerau, Dresdenc (DE)

2018

 

Dis_Sylphide, a dance piece on disability and german dance history, collaboration on the choreography, Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)

Dis_Sylphide, a dance piece on disability and german dance history, collaboration on the choreography, Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf (DE)

Dis_Sylphide, a dance piece on disability and german dance history, collaboration on the choreography, Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)

 

2017

 

Teen Spirit, a dance piece for teenagers, Sleidinge, Evergem (BE)

 

2016

 

Speaking about the ghost, performance, Tanznacht, Uferstudios Berlin (DE)

Dance expressions – when did we become contemporary?, performance in collaboration with Guo Rui, Guangdong Modern Dance Theatre, Guangzhou (CN)

Revolution won’t be performed, performance, collaboration on the choreography, Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad (RS) 

 

2015

 

Speaking about the ghost, performance, K3 Zentrum für Choreographie, Hamburg (DE)

Cabinet of political wonders, performance for theatre, collaboration on the choreography, Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE) Bydgoszcs

Revolution won’t be performed, performance, collaboration on the choreography, Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad (RS) 

Revolution won’t be performed, performance, collaboration on the choreography, Timisoara National Theatre (ROU) 

Cabinet of political wonders, performance for theatre, collaboration on the choreography, Polish Theatre, Bydgoszcs (POL)

Revolution won’t be performed, performance, collaboration on the choreography, Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad (RS)

2014

This isn’t gonna end well, performance, Life Long Burning project, Uferstudios Berlin (DE)

This isn’t gonna end well, performance, Tanznacht, Uferstudios Berlin (DE)

2013

 

Revolution won’t be performed, performance for theatre, collaboration on the choreography, Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)

 

2012

This isn’t gonna end well, performance, MA final works, Uferstudios Berlin (DE)

Songs Books, set of performances by various artists, Tanzquartier Vienna (AU) 

Songs Books, set of performances by various artists, Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE)

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alex.albert.achour@gmail.com

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