Biography
Eléonore Barbara Bovet (she,they) is a contemporary dance artist and performer based in Munich Germany. She graduated in 2017 from Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance Munich, and simultaneously received the Award for Exceptional Artistic Achievement as a Young Choreographer by the Iwanson-Sixt-Stiftung.
Eléonore’s artistic interest constitutes in approaching the body as a social, performative and political object/canvas/actor that reacts to its environment and the background it carries. She does this by exploring social, architectural, sculptural and hierarchical relationships between the body and its surroundings : Audiences, rooms, sounds, other bodies and/or objects, the potential of interactions of those concepts between the body and themselves constitutes tools for deconstructing and blurring conventions, binaries, hierarchies, both in the artistic results and in the creation processes. Therefore understanding the aesthetics of bodies in historical, religious, and colonial context, is a crucial part of her work as a choreographer and interpret, as a tool to question, deconstruct and queer discourses around body norms and status quo. On top of this, the modulation of the state of presence in order to abstract or concretize the body, along with an strong interest for the complexity of simple movements such as walking and gazing are a crucial part of her artistic interpetational practice.
Therefore, Eléonore’s work as a dancer, performer and choreographer finds its way in various projects at intersections between dance, visual arts and performance work, from site specific performances, vocal performances, working in Museum spaces, nature, as well as durational and improvisational dance works. She notably performed for Biennale di Venezia Golden Lion recipients La Ribot in DIEstinguished, and Lina Lapelyté in the project Copper Lick. She took part in Performances in Haus Der Kunst Munich for various exhibitions, such as of Joan Jonas, Dumb Type and Franz Erhardt Walther, and danced in Emily Mast’s piece IFIF at the Dance First Think Later Festival 2024, in Geneva (CH). Moreover, Eléonore is a very active element in the city of Munich, working and collaborating with a variety of local Dance and Visual Artists such as Anna Konjetzky, Stephanie Felber, Katja Wachter, Nicola Kötterl, Simona Andrioletti and Turtle Magazine. Strongly believing in the power of community and democratic approaches to creation, Eléonore is also part of the Initiative TanzQuelle and their projects which aims to collect and offer ressources and exchange spaces to the freelance dance scene of Munich. Eléonore’s work as an emerging choreographer has been invited to several venues, such as Fête de la Danse Neuchâtel, Jerusalem International Choreography Competition, HIER=JETZT Festival and residencies such as Tipperary Dance Festival with Tanztendenz Munich in Ireland. Glasshouse, their first full-evening piece created in collaboration with Wiebke Dobers, was premiered in the frame of the feminist event #Sieinspiriertmich in Einstein Kultur, Munich, in 2023.