Showroomdummies #4
Gisèle Vienne
étienne Bideau-Rey
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the Berliner Festspiele for the presentation of Showroomdummies#4 by Gisèle Vienne and Étienne Bideau-Rey.
Taking the social construct of identities and our embodied understanding of it as a point of departure, the dance-theatre performance “Showroomdummies #4” explores culturally built-up femininity and power structures when dancers and life-sized dolls come together – urging us to question our gazes on the embodied and disembodied, presence and absence.
In this installation-like setting, lighting, space and sound are in dialogue with the choreography, allowing us to read the full system of signs as one composition.
Gisèle Vienne
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the Berliner Festspiele for the presentation of Showroomdummies#4 by Gisèle Vienne and Étienne Bideau-Rey.
Étienne Bideau-Rey
Choreographer, director and visual artist specializing in drawing and sculpture, Étienne Bideau-Rey studied at the Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai, Belgium, the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège and the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette (French National School of Puppetry). In 2000, he received the Prix de la Vocation (Vocational Prize) from the Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. He is one half of a duo with Gisèle Vienne. Together they have collaborated on Jean Genet’s Splendid’s (2000), multiple editions of Showroomdummies (2001), Stéréotypie (2003) and Tranen Veinzen (2004). Since 2009, he has been developing a work of art including elements of both drawing and sculpture which has been exhibited, most notably, in at the Dampfzentrale in Bern. In 2004, he directed Vacances, a 30-minute, self-produced short film. In 2006, he directed Jours Ordinaires, an animated music video for singer Tujiko Noriko's Dead Earth. In 2013 and 2014, he participated in Formats Raisin, a collective exhibition of drawings at the Galerie Martagon in Malaucène, France.
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Berliner Festspiele
In 2024, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the Berliner Festspiele for four shows during its 2024-2025 season.
