Trained as an assistant director and dramaturg in the Master's program at the University of Poitiers, Helen Heraud began practicing dance in the choreographic research workshop led by Isabelle Lamothe, alongside artists such as Emmanuelle Huynh, Gaëlle Bourges, Mickaël Phelippeau, Marlène Saldana, and Jonathan Drillet between 2015 and 2018. She continued her collaboration with Gaëlle Bourges on several performances of the piece To my only desire as well as the creation and performance of two pieces for young audiences: Le bain (2018) and (La bande à) LAURA (2021)and La petite soldate (2025).
Through her encounters and guided by her desire to explore other worlds, Helen has worked with many artists, including Yves-Noël Genod, Marie Clavaguera Pratx, Jean-Luc Verna, and Céline Agniel. Since 2016, she has been involved in various settings as part of outreach activities related to performances (workshops in museums, nursing homes, universities, schools, etc.) with different audiences, both amateur and professional. Helen created her first piece, Justes, with the company Crash Test, a performance based on the eponymous play by Albert Camus. She also helped a group of performing arts students put on street performances as part of the Les Expressifs festival (86), focusing on the digital representation of oneself on social media. A lover of in-situ creations, she considers public space to be a vast field of exploration and invites the viewer to go beyond the barriers of representation to question the choreographic gesture through the specificity of the bodies and spaces it inhabits.
