Teaching staff

Nadia Vadori-Gauthier

Dancer, choreographer, Ph.D. in Arts, Aesthetics, and Art Sciences, artist-in-residence at the Scènes du monde laboratory at Paris 8 University, Body-Mind Centering® instructor, and founder of the Corps sismographe® choreographic method. She was born in Montreal and lives in Paris.
Initially trained in classical dance and visual arts, her research and creative projects adopt an ethical perspective that places relationships and resonance at the heart of her processes. She questions the boundaries between art and life, the visible and the invisible, in order to propose an art that weaves new collective arrangements interconnecting human and non-human lives. Through dance, she activates connections to our era, to people, to environments, and to the Earth. 
At the intersection of her somatic practice, dance, and instantaneous composition, she has, over the years, created a dance technique in relation to environments called Corps sismographe®, which allows for the interconnection of interiority and exteriority, the conscious and the unconscious, within the composition. She also develops performative projects in connection with museum works and natural environments. 
From 2015 to 2025, she led a daily choreographic project of poetic resistance: One Minute of Dance a Day, which forms a long-term work woven from both personal and collective elements, daily life, and current events. A documentary

From 2015 to 2025, she led a daily choreographic project of poetic resistance: *A Minute of Dance a Day*, which forms a long-term work woven from both personal and collective elements, as well as everyday life and current events. A documentary was made about this project: *A Secret Joy* by Jérôme Cassou (released in theaters in September 2019). In 2018, she edited the collective work *Danser Résister* (Éditions Textuel, 2017) and authored *“2015–2025, Ten Years of a Work for Our Time”* (Les Presses du réel, 2025).

Gaël Giraud

An engineer by training and a black belt in judo, Gaël is a dancer, choreographer, Benesh notator, and Body-Mind Centering® practitioner. He completed his professional training at Soma, the BMC® school in France, where he studied under Véra Orlock, Mariko Tanabe, Janet Amato, and others. 
Trained in contemporary dance at the RIDC, he furthered his training through workshops led by Julyen Hamilton, Maya Caroll, Régine Chopinot, Nina Vallon, Luke Jessop (Ultima Vez company), and others. 
Through the Benesh movement notation at the CNSMDP, he refined the fundamentals of dance—the alphabet of movement—and developed a choreographic vision rooted in the body, space, and rhythm. 
He has participated in the creation of pieces and performances by Corps Collectif since its founding by Nadia Vadori-Gauthier in 2009, and collaborated with her on the creation of the “Corps sismographe” training program.
In 2018, he founded the company “Il est temps” to develop and share his choreographic universe, which engages physicality. He created the solo Avec le temps and group pieces with non-professional dancers. He works on various choreographic projects, collaborates with Lulla Chourlin, choreographer of the Astragale company, and joined the Nawel Oulad company in April 2021. 
With Nawel, he is collaborating on the creation of a series of duets titled “Deux, ou l’art d’être ensemble,” a production for amateurs for Nuit Blanche 2022, and a professional production for the inauguration of the Stade de France footbridge for the Paris 2024 Olympics (he also danced at the Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony). 
Together, they founded the GONG company, which undertakes projects related to  
the environment. Their piece, Ce qui nous lie,  is supported by the Centre-Val de Loire region

Margaux Amoros

A dancer and choreographer, Margaux studied drama at the Erik Satie Conservatory and joined the dance workshops led by 
Nadia Vadori-Gauthier. She continues her dance training through
numerous workshops in France and abroad with Julyen Hamilton, Maya Carroll, Les Ballets C de la B, Ultima Vez, Peeping Tom, Éléonore Valère, Nach, Catherine Contour, and Meytal Blanaru. She studies Body-Mind Centering® and is a certified instructor of the Corps sismographe® method.
Since 2010, she has been part of the research and performance laboratory Le Corps
collectif, directed by Nadia Vadori-Gauthier. For five years, she collaborated with the company
L’Âme de Fonds in Switzerland, which brings together dancers, musicians, and architects to produce and present pieces created through instant composition. She works as a choreographer at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam with students in the
Studio For Immediat Space program. She collaborates with the company Les Filles de Simone on the choreography for their project Être à sa place with Troupazimut.
Since 2018, she has been leading the CREAC arts and cultural education project with the Atelier de Paris/CDCN.

As a dancer, she has worked with Simon Tanguy, Marie Desoubeaux, Nina Vallon, Leïla Gaudin, and Nadia Vadori-Gauthier. She collaborated on the creation of the piece *Gletcher* for the Lausitz Festival in Germany under the direction of Margaux Marielle-Tréhouart (Sacha Waltz Company) and musician Haggai Cohen Milo.
In 2022, she founded her own company, La Férale. Her first creation, À CRU, received support from Danse Dense. She is currently working on a solo piece, supported by L’étoile du Nord, the Atelier de Paris/CDCN, and the Centquatre-Paris.

Lucas Herault

An actor, dancer, and director, Lucas Hérault is a graduate of ESAD and the École de l'Académie Française. He specializes in a form of physical, choreographic, and socially engaged theater in which the musicality of the body and the text plays a central role. Fascinated by the beauty and complexity of human nature, he plays with what moves and touches us, and works with the hidden mechanisms that drive our emotions and behaviors.
From a very young age, he has enjoyed watching people on the street or in the subway and imagining their stories. For him, rhythms, bodies, and places possess an intrinsic musicality and become elements of a poetic language. As a child, he watched all of Tati’s, Charlie Chaplin’s, and Bourvil’s films until the VHS tapes were worn out. This passion for the various forms that life takes also extends to animals and nature as a whole. This is the foundation of his love for living beings and the engagement of the body.

As an actor, he has appeared in productions directed by Jérôme Deschamps, Lilo Baur, Jean-Claude Cotillard, Macha Makeïeff, and Arthur Deschamps... Together with his classmates from the Comédie-Française, he founded the Collectif Colette, with whom he staged *Pauline at the Beach*, based on the screenplay by Éric Rohmer.
He has also participated, as a dancer, in all of the Corps Collectif’s performances since 2009. 
As a playwright and director, he created *Rouler des pelles au néant* (2025), *MANGER!* (for young audiences/2024), and *Entre chien et loup* (2018), and writes the scripts for his plays. 
A holder of the State Diploma in Theater Teaching, he also directs plays for high school and college students at the Theater Workshop of the École Alsacienne.