Alexis Jestin

In 2018, the choreographer start the project LOOK WHAT THE WORLD DID TO US. A work of investigations and research that deals with psycho-graphic movements related to isolation and social exclusion. A pedagogical approach and the realization of laboratories and creations process that he leads with a large audience of amateurs and professional dancers between Europe, Asia and Latina America. This adventure, for which he is Laureate of La Villa Saigon 2020 and resident of the R.E.D Arena Eina TANZ Residency in Norway. Results in a solo that report the testimonies of the memories collected along this artistic and human journey during the one he have met more than 400 dancers around the world. An Art-venture that keeps creating new chapter across the globe, still until today.

In summer 2021, Alexis is laureate off the Royaumont Foundation and create the trio 36 Forms in collaboration with the composer Lucie Nezri that the present in the opening of the Royaumont Festival. The choreographer is invited by the National Dance Company of Ecuador and its director Roberto W. Rivera to create the work Foreign Quest for 16 dancers, presented for the 45th anniversary of the company. He is invited to be a guest choreographer for the Danzen Colectivo in Quito, to create the sextet La Piel Que Habito in winter 2021. Falling 2022, Alexis will produce and realize the show NHAY15 for fifteen graduated dancers of the Conservatory Truong TP Mua in Saigon Vietnam and is invited to create MerodeaDores for 8 dancers, presented for the International Dance Day at the Espacio Vazio Quito.

Same year, the choreographer created: DOG EAT DOG, I loved to hate you. An intense and radical autobiographical love duet which depicts itself like a personal diary, presented at KLAP Maison pour la danse in Marseille. Iconic city where the company is based and where the choreographer lives. 2023 will be rich in creation for the UNDERDOG company, adding three pieces to its repertoire: The creation Mira born in Cuba, a quintet created for the dancers of the company Espiral Danza de Matanzas, the creation for amateurs Memoria will be presented in Montevideo in Uruguay and the trio SOLI-X-VERITA for the Danzen collective, is created and presented on the magnificent rooftop of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Quito Ecuador. The year 2024 will be promising with new perspectives around the creation of the solo Redemption which will be designed for the dancer and musician Jamil Attar. As well as the creation Drifting to Homeland which will be performed for the twenty dancers of the Costa Rican National Dance Company.