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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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