Fabien Prioville
Fabien Prioville graduated at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers. He later worked with Édouard Lock and his company ‘La La La Human Steps’ in Canada before he joined Philippe Blanchard in Stockholm.
In 1999 he became a member of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, performed the repertories such as Cafe Müller. He also performed in the movies from Pedro Almodovar’s Talk to Her (2002), and Wim Wender’s Pina (2011).
Since 2006 he has been working as a freelance dancer and choreographer, and worked together with Josef Nadj and Davis Freeman, Louise Lecavalier, Shutaro Oku, Hauschka, Tetro +A, Chris Cutler, Michiel van Erp, among others. His various commissioned works brought him to New York’s Juilliard School as well as Japan with: Tokyo Festival, Theater Group En, Dance Dance Asian, Ballet-NOAH. Further more: Perth Australia, Tanztheater Regensburg, Tanztheater Bielefeld Germany, I.T.A Amsterdam, Holland Dance Festival Den Haag, Attakkalari Biennial Bangalore India, Bolivia, Montreal Canada, Mali, CDC La Termitière Burkina Faso. ADAF Festival Athens, Super 24 with Oschool Singapore. He is invited internationally to give workshops and coaching to emerging artists.
Company
In 2010, Fabien Prioville founded the fabien prioville dance company (fpdc) and became a member of the iDAS network. Since then, he has developed more than one production per year and performed most of his works at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf. The productions have successfully toured internationally, including the solo “Jailbreak Mind” (2009), a co-production of tanzhaus NRW and Trafó Budapest, which was also invited to the German ‘Tanzplattform’ in Nuremberg.
From virtual reality and modern technologies to exploring the deeply personal and emotional structure within each of us, fpdc’s work spans many media. Choreographic works such as “Time for us” (2014) with Azusa Seyama and “Power Moves” (2019) – a piece for five street dancers -, virtual reality installations, dance-tech performances such as “Experiment on Chatting Bodies” (2012) and “The Smartphone Project” (2013).
The VR installation project “Rendez-Vous”, which premiered at tanzhaus nrw, extended the company’s reach even further into the digital world. Major festivals such as the Lyon Dance Biennial and the Tokyo Festival, or Open Look St. Petersburg and the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch have collaborated with the company to develop VR dance films on location for festivals and venues.
Over the past three years, the fabien prioville dance company has gained extensive experience in the field of digital technologies and has found a reliable partner in the MIREVI (Mixed Reality and Visualization) Institute at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences for research into the interplay between technology and the body. Together with MIREVi, fpdc has realized the interactive mixed-media production 12Fifty Mb/s (2021), the dance performance 2Sides (2022) & the interactive and immersive production dancing audience (2023) in recent years.
