Sylvain Méret

Born in France, I first began my education in visual art. I obtained a Bachelor of Visual Art at Bordeaux University together with the national diploma for visual art, DNAP/DNSEP from the Bordeaux Ecole de Beaux-Arts. I was then accepted at P.A.R.T.S (Brussels), school directed by Anne Theresa de Keersmaecker. I studied repertory from Trisha Brown, William Forsyth, Pina Bausch, A.T de Keersmaecker. I am currently finishing a master in dance therapy in CODARTS (Rotterdam)

Since 1998 I have been working as a dance performer for many choreographers such as Christiane Blaise, Virginie Mirbeau, Felix Rucker, Arnold Pasquier, Company B.Valiente, Martin Sonderkamp, Rachel Mateis, Jean Luc Terrade, Sandrine Anglade/Pascaline Verrier (la fabula di orfeo) , Dylan Newcomb (THIS) , Sjoerd Vreugdenhil (cadance 2008), Pedro Gomez Goucha (cadance festival 2011)...These productions toured in France, Belgium, Norway ,Holland, Poland, Denmark...

In 2001 I became a member of the Magpie Music Dance Company with Katie Duck as the artistic director.

I played the role of Jean, in the theater play “Miss Julie” (A. Strindberg) directed by Petar Todorov and Sjoerd Vreugdenhil.

I started my own work in 2003 and created several solos, "vibroscopie", "Descentiment", "Le modele de Molinier" in collaboration with J.L Terrade, "The dreamer and the observer" with A. Genovesi; and group pieces: "ONES", Ones fem, Backflow with Waterproof Live...

I collaborate with Makiko Ito, Manuela Tessi and Miri Li among others in the Amsterdam improvisation scene and projects with children such as "Wonderland" and "BB"; And with Julie Laderach and Chris Martineau in creating "les imprévisibles" dance music collective in Bordeaux.

I have been teaching contemporary dance, improvisation and composition in several university and academies such as SNDO (Amsterdam), ARTEZ (Arnhem), SEAD (Salzburg), KNUA (Seoul), JBA (Bordeaux), conservatoire de Bordeaux...