Gaëlle Bourges ' work bears witness to a pronounced inclination for references to art history, and a critical relationship to the history of representations: she has signed, among others, the triptych Gutting Vénus (a comparison between the female nudes of Western painting and those of erotic theaters) ; To my sole desire on the figure of virginity in the tapestry of "La Dame à la licorne" (Festival d'Avignon 2015) ; Lascaux then Seing Lascaux again (its all-audience version) on the discovery of the eponymous cave ; Warding off fear based on Ambrogio Lorenzetti's fresco of "Good and Bad Government" in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico ; The bath a play for all audiences on female nudes in European painting ; Incidence 1327 about Petrarch's encounter with Laure, a performance co-signed with visual artist Gwendoline Robin ("Sujet à Vif", Festival d'Avignon 2018) ; Confluence n°... on Galilean moons, again with Gwendoline Robin ; What you see based on the Angers Apocalypse hanging; GIAB (GIVING IT ALL BACK) (Festival d'Automne, Paris, 2021), about the looting of the Acropolis by a British ambassador to Athens in the early 19th century ; LAURA's Gang a play for all audiences on the disappearance of women artists and models in the history of art (Festival d'Automne, Paris, 2021) ; LOULOU (the little fur) based on a nude with fur by the Flemish painter Rubens, as part of the Fabrique des écritures, initiated by Les Fêtes Galantes / Béatrice Massin; AUSTERLITZ a puzzle created from the memories of the show's seven performers, echoing W.G. Sebald's book of the same name ; Simply Camilla with puppet students from ESNAM (Charleville-Mézières), based on the story of the warrior Camille in Virgil's Aeneid.
She also designs performances for museums: Hubert’s plate about the collection of plates painted by Hubert Robert on display at the Musée de Valence ; A room to cool off in the tapestry room of "La Dame à la licorne", at the Musée de Cluny, Paris ; The banquet hall installation/performance with Abigail Fowler and Stéphane Monteiro for the "L'envers du décor" festival, offering a critical history of the frescoes in the Forum room at the Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris ; Secret Friends on women artists in the exhibition "Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu" exhibition at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA), Lausanne.
Gaëlle Bourges is also a graduate of the University of Paris 8 - majoring in dance; in "Somatic Education through Movement" - School of Body-Mind Centering ; and occasionally lectures on dance theory. She has also trained in music, commedia dell'arte, clowning and drama. For several years, she founded and ran a musical comedy company for and with children (Théâtre du Snark) ; worked as a stage manager at the BNF and as a stripper in an erotic theater.
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.
Gaëlle Bourges was awarded the Prix Chorégraphie by SACD 2024.
