Body Reflection or Many States Of Being

This workshop proposes constructive alignment accompanied with deep imagery work that awakens both, energy patterns and body spaces awareness. This creates strong relating to an inner/outer dialogue, investigating influence and affluence. The work taps into a soft approach to the essence of one‘s self-reflection. This addresses the use of fluid standing into soft bodies. Never the less it is possible to invest with this approach rapid and tonic states, even though, the tendency is to veer most often towards soft embracive application. The work also offers alternative definitions of strength where grounding carries oneself through body extension and space awareness. Reinvesting strength patterns brings into reconsidering one‘s positioning into the surroundings. It does not offer an answer but multiple propositions and possibilities.


Benoît Lachambre
A daring and innovative artist, Benoît Lachambre has been evolving in the international dance community for more than twenty-nine years, as choreographer, dancer, improviser and teacher. After beginning his career in Jazz and Modern dance, he devoted himself to an exploratory approach of movement and its sources, and to seeking authenticity of motion. Since then, he has accumulated diverse experiences with releasing, with his own choreographic composition and improvisation projects, and finally with his workshops on research, improvisation and body consciousness.

In 1996, Benoît Lachambre created his company Par B.L.eux : “B.L.” for Benoît Lachambre, and “eux” for “them,” the creative artists with whom he collaborates. The company is devoted to contemporary and interdisciplinary choreographic creation, and the close connection to an international network of artists.

Benoît Lachambre continues to multiply his artistic encounters through his experiences as choreographer, improviser and teacher. His dance is based on the evolution of a proliferation of ideas, of dynamic exchanges aroused by the coming together of various artistic processes and concepts. Benoît is comfortable with passing from metaphor to theory to diverse practices. He transforms eclecticism into a multiplication of complementary activities. He seeks to incorporate the dynamics of communication and perception in his process.

Benoît Lachambre has received the Jacqueline Lemieux award from the Canada Council (1999), two Dora Mavor Moores for best performance and best choreography for "Délire Défait" (2001), the Moving Pictures award in Toronto for the best performance in „Cantique no 1 et no 2“ directed by Marie Chouinard (2003) and the Bessie Award for his performance in "Forgeries, Love and other matters" (2006).

Benoît Lachambre is well-known for the workshops he has led around the globe. Drawing upon his years of research and vast stage experience, he has developed workshops where dance professionals can explore the complexity of the inner modules of the body and work on identifying their own movement dynamic.