Trained as an assistant director and dramaturg in the Master's program at the University of Poitiers, it was in the choreographic research workshop led by Isabelle Lamothe that Helen Heraud began practicing dance with artists such as Emmanuelle Huynh, Gaëlle Bourges, Mickaël Phelippeau or Marlène Saldana and Jonathan Drillet, between 2015 and 2018. She will continue her collaboration with Gaëlle Bourges on several performances of the play A mon seul désir, as well as creating and performing two plays for young audiences: Le bain (2018) and (La bande à) LAURA (2021). Over the course of her career, guided by her desire to explore other worlds, Helen has worked with a number of artists, including Yves-Noël Genod, Marie Clavaguera Pratx, Jean-Luc Verna and Céline Agniel. Since 2016, she has been working in a variety of environments as part of mediation initiatives around performances (workshops in museums, EHPAD, universities, schools...) with different audiences, both amateur and professional. It was with the "Crash Test" company that Helen created her first piece, Justes, a performance based on Albert Camus' play of the same name. She also worked with a group of performing arts students on street performances as part of the Les Expressifs festival (86), focusing on digital self-representation on social networks. A lover of in-situ creations, she sees the public space as a vast field of exploration, inviting spectators to go beyond the barriers of representation to question the choreographic gesture through the specificity of the bodies and spaces it inhabits.
