Under the impetus of three former students from the dance department at Paris 8 University - Monia Bazzani, Carla Bottiglieri and Gaëlle Bourges - the association Os was founded in Paris in 2005. The initial aim was to create a group laboratory for "feedback" on the contemporary dance practices of each of the three founders: research workshops based on movement analysis and somatic techniques such as Body-Mind Centering, teaching, writing for various magazines, and so on. From 2009, Os has focused more fully on supporting the work of Gaëlle Bourges, whose work as a choreographer began some ten years earlier, and since then has supported the production, creation and dissemination of all her pieces, performances and other formats.
Gaëlle Bourges was companion artist at the MCA (Maison de Culture d'Amiens) from January 2019 to June 2024; associate artist at Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) from September 2018 to June 2023 ; associate artist at Centre chorégraphique national de Tours (CCNT) - directed by Thomas Lebrun, from September 2016 to December 2018 ; associate artist at the Ménagerie de verre, Paris, for the 2016-17 season; artist in long-term residency at L'échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France, Château-Thierry, from January 2016 to January 2019; associate artist at Danse à tous les étages, scène de territoire danse en Bretagne, in the Résodanse project ("at the end of the world! ") for the 2017-18 season; associate artist at Le Manège, scène nationale de Reims, for the 2018-19 season; associate artist at La Comédie Valence - CDN Drôme-Ardèche, directed by Richard Brunel, from 2017 to 2019; associate artist at L'échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France from 2019 to 2021.
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Head office / postal address: 9 rue de la Pierre Levée 75011 Paris
