It was as a member of the artistic group Houdini in Lucerne, Switzerland, which engaged in short films and happenings, that Nathalie had her first experiences in the theatre.

In 1993 she was accepted into the School of Fine Arts, Lucerne. After a spell at Scuola Teatro Dimitri, she trained for three years at l’Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame Marcel Marceau in accompaniment with studies in Theatre at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III.

She has created many pieces as an artist, and participated in the creation of productions of the Compagnie Commedia such as Peter and the Wolf and Bluebeard, which have toured France, Italy and Germany. Since 1996 she has taught in institutions in Paris, and since 2001 has assisted Ivan Bacciocchi in the pedagogical programme of l’Ecole internationale de Mime Corporel Dramatique. In 2007, she received her Master’s degree in Cultural Management. Currently, she splits her professional activity between cultural management, and teaching Corporeal Mime.

Professor of aerial acrobatics

She has been a circus teacher since 2010, after 20 years of work in circuses and variety shows around the world.
She graduated from the “Karandach” School of Circus in Moscow.
Winner of several circus festivals in Europe.
Now she works in circus schools in Paris: “Cirque & Percussions,” “Académie Fratellini.”

With the company that bears his name, Jean-Claude Cotillard has written, directed, and performed in visual theater productions (Les Hommes naissent tous EGO, Trekking, Occupe toi de moi !, La Vie en Rose, Le Travail), and recently Fin de série. He has directed Pierre Notte, Daniel Pennac, the clowns Les Cousins, Jean-Paul Farré, and more. He has received two Molières: Molière for Best Show (and nomination for Best Company) for Moi aussi je suis Catherine Deneuve (Pierre Notte), and Molière for Best Musical Show for Les douze pianos d’Hercule (Jean-Paul Farré). A teacher, he instructs in physical work, improvisation, and especially burlesque. He leads workshops on gestural and burlesque theater worldwide. In France, he taught at the Conservatoire d’Orléans and later at the ESAD (École Supérieure d’Art Dramatique de Paris). He served as the director of this school from 2003 to 2013. The school became one of the eleven French national schools in 2008, and in 2011 he created its first promotion “arts du mime et du geste” in a national school. He also taught at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique de Paris, the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in Châlons en Champagne, and worked with the clowns of Rire médecin.

Guy Freixe is a university professor in theater theory and practice. He trained at the Jacques Lecoq School and was an actor at the Théâtre du Soleil from 1981 to 1986. As a director, he has directed about thirty shows both in France, with his company Théâtre du Frêne, and abroad. He teaches at several national higher schools of dramatic art. Among his main publications: The Lineage of Copeau-Lecoq-Mnouchkine’s Actor’s Game, L’Entretemps, 2014; The Utopias of the Mask on European Stages of the 20th Century (2011 Critics’ Prize, best theater work), L’Entretemps, 2010; The Hidden Dimensions of the Body (edited collection), Deuxième époque, 2017.

Compagnie Théâtre du Mouvement - Claire Heggen
(Directrice artistique, auteure, actrice, metteure en scène, et pédagogue)Ses compétences transversales, lui permettent de développer aux confins des arts du mime, du théâtre gestuel, de la danse et du théâtre d’objets/marionnette une esthétique en perpétuel renouvellement, basée sur la notion de théâtralité du mouvement. Attachée à la notion de transmission, elle place le corps de l’acteur au cœur même de la création artistique et enseigne en France et à l’international.