Eszter Salamon

Choreographer and performer Eszter Salamon (born in 1970 in Budapest, lives and works between Paris and Berlin) works to expand the tools of dance expression in theatrical works, lectures, films and installations. In her early works, What a body you have, honey (2001) and Giszelle with Xavier Le Roy (2001). In 2005, Eszter Salamon decided to break with the convention of the silent dancing body and encourage her dancers to use their voice and sense of touch on stage. From then on, she developed choreographies with transhistorical references, which, by mixing speculative fictions and autobiographical elements, bring out alternative perspectives to the dominant narratives of the contemporary world, as with AND THEN (2007) or Tales of the Bodiless (2011). Since 2014, the MONUMENT series has explored the notion of the monument, both as a form of resistance to oblivion and exclusion, and as a means of extricating oneself from a teleological vision of History.