Born in 1986, Aurélien Dougé trained in dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. Between 2007 and 2014, he was a performer for Dantzaz Compania/Ballet de Biarritz (Spain/France), the Leipzig Opera (Germany), the Norrdans Company (Sweden) and the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève (Switzerland). He is currently pursuing his career as a dancer and performer with the choreographer Cindy Van Acker and the director Roméo Castellucci. In 2014, Aurélien Dougé founded in Geneva, Switzerland, Inkörper Company, a production structure that allows him to conduct his research. Since 2018 and Mouvement d’ensemble, he has been developing an experimental work that lies between installation, immersive device and performance. In his practice of simple materials, even raw (paper, earth, ice …) or still immaterial, such as light, sound or artificial fog, he collaborates with artists, craftsmen, technicians, thinkers from different backgrounds. Aurélien Dougé’s creations, all declined in their forms and their durations, according to the places and the conditions of presentation, were recently presented in Switzerland (Halle Nord – Contemporary Art Space of Geneva; Association for the Contemporary Dance; Festival Antigel; MEG – Museum of Ethnography of Geneva. In France (Maison des arts – contemporary art center of Malakoff). In Italy (Altofest festival – Naples; Matera 2019 – European Capital of Culture). Between 2020 and 2022 Aurélien Dougé is resident at the CN D – Pantin, at the Centquatre-Paris, at the Subs- Lyon, at the Pavillon de la Danse – ADC of Geneva for the creation of Tous en ce monde sur la crête d’un enfer à contempler les fleurs (2022).
With Aurélien Dougé we worked in the production of the projects SPHERES and Tool#x.