Studies of female knights

For nearly a decade, Marinette Dozeville has been exploring the theme of feminism through her choreographic creations, while the company places sisterhood at the heart of its overall project. After a cycle of four collective pieces (BREAKING THE BACKBOARD, 2020, AMAZONES, 2021, C’est comme ça que don Quichotte décida de sauver le monde – Acte 1, 2023, Act 2, 2024), Marinette Dozeville feels the need and curiosity to return to the specific exercise of solo dance, charged, even haunted, by these years of sisterly exploration and collective reinforcement, here in dialogue on stage with Fanny Lasfargues, bassist.

In Studies for female Knights, she seeks to explore the presence of her sisters, even in their physical absence. What remains of these women, their energy, their strength?
She aspires to summon and reactivate those who are absent on stage, to pay tribute to their contributions and their energy, which continue to nourish her work.

These questions also resonate in her relationship with the company’s performers: after sharing so many moments of artistic intimacy, how do their bodies, energies, and personalities continue to infuse her creation, even when the studio is empty? After spending so much time watching them, stimulating them, empowering them, deploying all her kinesthetic empathy with their moving bodies to understand and guide them, how do these performers continue to resonate within her when they are – in principle – not there?
The stage thus becomes the site of a chivalrous ritual dedicated to her sisters, where their presences mingle with her own incarnation.

Studies for female Knights is a choreographic and musical tribute to sisterhood, where every movement and every gesture is a celebration, a dedication to the collective strength of women and non-binary people.

Studies for female Knights is part of a diptych of two independent stage pieces: the dance and music duo – creation 2026 and its expansion for five dancers – creation 2027.