Challenge, blows received and given, hand-to-hand combat with the invisible, a raw energy chiselled by meticulous movements... In addition to manipulating the other's body to harness its articulatory mobility, Nathalie Pernette anchors movement in spontaneity, an emotional release fuelled by inner sensation.

For this dancer-choreographer, trained in classical dance from childhood, dance takes shape, nimble, all in sharp angles. Instinct and rigour against a backdrop of constant questioning. Her guilty pleasure, her time at the school of Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, only reinforces this.

In 2001, she created her own company and has since presented her shows throughout France and abroad. Her creative work, marked by a taste for experimentation and encounters, has always taken different paths, leading from the theatre to public spaces and unusual venues. She also cultivates interaction with other artistic disciplines such as the visual arts and live music...

Twenty-five pieces have been created since the company was founded...

Délicieuses - 2002 / Le Nid – 2003 / Je ne sais pas, un jour, peut-être… - 2002/2004 / La Flûte enchantée et Flûte ! – 2005 / Le Cabaret martien – 2006 / le triptyque Les Naufragées : Animale, Pedigree, Le Passage - 2006 / Le Repas – 2007 / La Maison – 2009 / Les Miniatures – 2009 / Les Indes Dansantes – 2010 / De Profundis – 2011 / La Peur du loup – 2011/ La Cérémonie – 2013 / La Collection – 2013 / Les Ombres blanches – 2015 / La Figure du gisant – 2015 / Ikche wishasha- L’homme nouveau – 2016 /La Figure du Baiser – 2017/Sous la peau – 2018/La Figure de l'érosion et Belladonna – 2019/La Mémoire de l'eau et L’Eau douce – 2021/Juste avant et Juste après – 2022 et 2023/Heyoka – La Tête à l’envers – 2023/Wakan – Un Souffle - 2024

Isabelle Moindrot is currently professor of theatre studies at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis and honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). Her research focuses on operatic dramaturgy, contemporary opera staging and the history of spectacle from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Having opened up her research to the ecological imperatives of theatrical production and their impact on creation, she has launched a pluridisciplinary program on opera facing climate change, in order to map and (re-) experience uses of nature in opera, and to work towards the eco-responsible practices of tomorrow (Opera and Climate Change, 2020-2025). It has resulted in publications, facilitated professional meetings in partnership with the Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique (“Nature Is No Longer a Decor,” opus 1, 2, 3, and 4), and spurred experimental creations such as Singing in the Pool, an opera performed in a swimming pool with the Compagnie Harmonieuse Disposition (2022–…). With Giulia Filacanapa, she is co-developing, within the framework of the EUR ArTeC Graduate School, a series of innovative teaching modules for a masked musical theater dedicated to Earth's entities: Singing in the Pool, Singing in the Air, Singing in the Fire WITH MASKS (2024-2026). Together with Agnès Terrier and Thibault Sinay, she is preparing an exhibition at the Centre national du costume et de la scène (Moulins-sur-Allier) on opera costumes through the lens of ecology (2028).

Her recent publications include • Isabelle Moindrot, « Singing in the Pool. Un opéra aquatique sur les dérèglements de la Terre », Agôn, 10, oct. 2025. https://doi.org/10.4000/1551k • François Ribac, Isabelle Moindrot and Nicolas Donin (ed.), Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene. Nature, Materialities and Ecological Transformation, Routledge, 2025. • Isabelle Moindrot & Leyli Daryoush (ed.), Opéra et Écologie(s), Alternatives théâtrales, 144-145, Bruxelles, 2021.

A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris in 2001, Anne Saubost has performed under the direction of Jean-Michel Ribes, Christophe Honoré, Baki Boumaza, Pascal Zelcer, Sophie Lecarpentier, and others. In cinema, she appeared in Ribes's "Musée Haut, Musée Bas", in television films and under the direction of Mathieu Amalric. She created the Compagnie Harmonieuse Disposition collective, in which she works to bring opera, theatre and music to public spaces, for everyone and everywhere. Supported by the City of Paris and the IDF Region, she has created, among other things, "Ce qui est sauvage est beau" in a swimming pool in 2018, ’'Ne pas courir au bord du bassin’’ at the Hébert swimming pool, and finally ’’Singing in the pool’’ in 2023 and 2024. For the past three years, she has been working with the IDF region on an EAC project: "Traversée(s) théâtre" (Theatre Crossings): theatre and writing at the Lycée Jean Monnet in Franconville and the Lycée Jacques Decour in Paris. "Singing in the pool" has been awarded the Paris 2024 label. She is currently working on the creation of a new show, again in the aquatic element.