Sasha J. Blondeau: I am a Conservatoire supérieur de Lyon- and Ircam-trained composer who specializes in mixed music, which combines acoustic instruments and/or voices with electronics. I try to find unique spaces of expression that blur the boundaries between widely different elements, both instrumental and electroacoustic.

François Chaignaud: A graduate of the Conservatoire de danse de Paris, I have been dancing since childhood in search of points of convergence between different artistic genealogies. For the past ten years, I have been developing a dance/singing hybrid form of expression. Vocal practice has always been a way for me to summon specific historical references that cannot be brought out by choreography alone.

Sasha J. Blondeau was a fellow of the Villa Medici in Rome in 2018–19, and a resident in 2020–21. They received commissions from SWR Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik (WDR), Ensemble Intercontemporain, Radio France, Ircam, Théâtre du Châtelet, Festival Musica, the French Ministry of Culture, and Françoise and Jean-Philippe Billarant, among others.

François Chaignaud has worked as a performer with several choreographers, using both dancing and singing, at the crossroads of different inspirations. Their curiosity led to collaborations with Marie-Caroline Hominal, Théo Mercier, Cecilia Bengolea, and Nino Laisné, among others. In 2020, François Chaignaud co-wrote GOLD SHOWER, with Butoh icon Akaji Maro.

Hélène Giannecchini is a writer and Doctor of literature, where she teaches contemporary art history and theory at l’École européenne supérieure de l’Image de Poitiers Angoulême (ÉESI). She has published two books with Les éditions du Seuil publishing house, “Une Image peut-être vraie” (2014) and “Voir de ses propres yeux” (2020), as part of their “La Librairie du XXIe siècle” collection. Currently, she is a residence at the Centre national de la Danse, where she is preparing her third works in the same collection. From 2018-19 she was a residence at the Academy of France in Rome, Villa Médicis.