Bio

Justine Berthillot is a circus artist, choreographer, and director.

After studying philosophy, she trained at the CNAC (National Center for Circus Arts) and created her first piece, Noos, in 2015 at the National Dance Center, which toured for many years in France and internationally. She is the artistic director of the Morgane company, with which she creates acrobatic, choreographic, and performative works. She is particularly interested in the articulation and encounter of the body with other artistic languages in order to create hybrid narratives. With writer Pauline Peyrade, she has created three pieces combining muscle and words: Poings, Carrosse, and L'Âge de détruire. In 2021, she created two solo performances in situ: Notre Forêt, created at the Centre Pompidou-Metz for the Passages Festival; and in 2022, DESORDEN, created at the Espace des Arts in Chalon-sur-Saône at the Transdanses Festival. In 2023, she created a large-scale circus performance, On ne fait pas de pacte avec les bêtes, with Mosi Espinoza at the Cirque-Théâtre d'Elbeuf. She is an associate artist at the Espace des Arts, Scène Nationale Chalon-sur-Saône, from 2020 to 2024, and a creative artist for the 2023/2024 season at the Centre National de la Danse, Lyon.

Project

Justine Berthillot will continue her research into eco-feminist thinking and the links between female emancipation, connection to living beings and spirituality, and the concept of zoofuturism. In a world plagued by climate change, she intends to continue inventing regenerative post-modern mythologies and performative, hybrid narratives.

To this end, she will work with students at the Olot School of Art on the concept of “ancestral geologies” and their performance.