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- the beloved

- the breast piece

- dance

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- ohne worte

- sensation & imagination: a study

- the stage and myself

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PRATICABLE: bios



Alice Chauchat
Alice Chauchat, choreographer and performer, addresses in her work the fundaments and conditions in the production, presentation and reception of performance. She choreographs mostly in collaboration with other artists, e.g. Anne Juren, Alix Eynaudi, Frédéric Gies. Other activities include artistic assistance, participating in other people’s projects, writing, teaching and singing.
She studied in the C.N.S.M of Lyon and at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. Founding member of the collective B.D.C. with Tom Plischke, Martin Nachbar and Hendrik Laevens, they created together Events for television (again), Affects and (Re)sort between 1999 and 2001. 2001 Alice presented her 1st solo Quotation marks me, 2002 followed choreographies and 2003, A Number of Classics in the Age of Performance in collaboration with Vera Knolle. In 2004 she makes J'aime together with Anne Juren and in 2005, Crystalll in collaboration with Alix Eynaudi. 2007 she presented The breast piece (praticable) together with Frédéric Gies.
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Frédéric de Carlo
After studying contemporary dance in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon, Frédéric De Carlo danced with Odile Duboc from 1995 to 2001. During this period he took part in the creations of Trois Boléros, Comédie, Thaïs, À la suite.

He also worked with Laure Bonicel for the creations Manurêva and Millefeuille.

From 1998 on, he co-signs several performances with Frédéric Gies: Le principal défaut (CND, Paris), Le principal défaut-solo (Tipi de Beaubourg, Paris) , En corps (CND, Paris) , Post porn traffic (Macba, Barcelona) , In bed with rebecca (Vooruit, Gent ), (don’t) Show it! (Scène nationale, Dieppe), Second hand vintage collector (sometimes we like to mix it up!) (Ausland, Berlin).
Frédéric is currently working on The beloved, a project in collaboration with Odile Seitz in the frame of praticable.



Frédéric Gies
Frédéric Gies born in France in 1973, lives and works in Berlin.
His choreographic work focuses on the political implications of choreographic writing and the body representations emerging from it. Deep researches on the bodily origins of movement, finding inputs in experiential approaches of anatomy and physiology, particularly in practices like BMC®, constitute the soil of his most recent work. He develops different methods for choreographic writing out of these investigations on body and movement, changing method for each piece he creates. With his pieces, he questions their own medium, dance, as well as he deals with other topics like authorship, gender representations, community or emotions, among others, in a playful destabilization of codes and conventions.
After studying ballet and contemporary dance, he worked with various french choreographers such as Daniel Larrieu, Bernard Glandier, Jean-François Duroure, Olivia Grandville and Christophe Haleb. Since 2000, he takes BMC® workshops with Vera Orlock, Sarita Beraha, Trisha Bauman and Walburga Glatz on a regular base.
In 1995, he creates the piece Because I love in collaboration with Odile Seitz. In 1998 he starts to work in collaboration with Frédéric de Carlo. They create together various performances: Le principal défaut (CND, Paris), Le principal défaut-solo (Centre George Pompidou, Paris), En corps (CND, Paris), Post porn traffic (Macba, Barcelona), In bed with Rebecca  (Vooruit, Gent), (don’t) Show it! (Scène nationale de Dieppe), Second hand vintage collector (sometimes we like to mix it up!) (Ausland, Berlin).
In 2OO4, he dances in The better you look, the more you see by Isabelle Schad and starts taking part in Good Work (California Roll). In the same year he begins a series of solos: Sleeping beauties/Ultra sexy amazons (1st version in Tanzfabrik, 2nd in Ausland, Berlin) and The bitch is back under pressure (reloaded) (Basso, Berlin).
In 2006 he created Dance (Praticable) in the frame of Tanz made in Berlin. The same year, he also begins to take part in Still lives (by Gies/ Pelmus/ Pocheron / Schad).
In 2007, he creates in collaboration with Alice Chauchat The Breast Piece (Praticable), in Tanz im August.
He is currently working on a group version of Dance (Praticable) that is planned for October 2008 and prepares also a new piece: Album (Praticable).

Isabelle Schad
German choreographer and performer living in Berlin. Co-initiator of Good Work together with Ben Anderson and Bruno Pocheron.
Isabelle Schad studied classical dance from 1981-90 in Stuttgart. From 1990-96, she danced in various classical companies. Since then, she began creating her first own choreographies and extending her dance education through diverse workshops and scholarships. She was member of Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus in Brussels and has worked a.o. with Olga Mesa, Angela Guerreiro, Felix Ruckert, Eszter Salamon.
Since 1999, she has developed numerous own projects and dance performances in close collaboration with choreographers, performers, musicians and visual artists, which have been presented internationally in theatres, alternative places, galleries or festivals such as Tanz im August Berlin, Internationale Tanzwochen Wien or Dashanzi International Arts Festival Beijing a.o..
She received several nominations and prizes.
She has been co-conceiving the Good Work-Project and works currently together with Ben Anderson and Bruno Pocheron on the realisation of several projects of this series, a.o. with Benoit Lachambre, Martin Belanger, Nuno Bizarro, Manuel Pelmus, Frédéric Gies, Hanna Hedman.
Since 2003, she has been Artist-In-Residence at Podewil / TanzWerkstatt Berlin and at de Monty in Antwerp.
Recently, she has been working on a new project in collaboration with Germana Civera and Laurent Goldring, which premiered in the Festival of Montpellier Danse 2006 and on a solo project for and with Dalija Acin, that premiered at the Bitef Theatre in Belgrade.



Odile Seitz
After graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon for contemporary dance in 1992, Odile Seitz worked with the Compagnie Dominique Bagouet in Montpellier and with Luc Bondy in Berlin’s Schaubühne in « The hour when we didn't know anything about each other » by Peter Handke. From1995 to 2001 she worked with various choreographers such as Bernard Glandier, Odile Duboc, l’association les Carnets Bagouet, Olivia Granville, Frédéric Gies and Frédéric de Carlo.
1995 she choreographed a duet in collaboration with Frédéric Gies and in 2000 she created and danced a solo, « Femme debout ». She also got the dance teacher diploma.
In 2000, she moved to Berlin and worked with Christoph Winkler until 2003.
Since 2002, Odile Seitz teaches dance to professional dancers and to children in various sholls and kindergartens, and performs with musicians.
In 2005, she began the Body Mind Centering education.
She takes part in praticable and currently develops together with Frédéric de Carlo The beloved (praticable).