Julie Beauvais

Co-director, Zurich Festival for New Music SONIC MATTER (Switzerland)

Julie Beauvais is an artist, choreographer, director and curator based in Valais, Switzerland. Her body of work ranges from opera and choreographic works, to architectural interventions, video works and performative installations. Her art is driven by her interests in embodied experience, conscience and elevation and has been performed and exhibited internationally since 2001. After graduating from Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Beauvais co-founds several companies in the United States, in Switzerland and in Denmark. For seven years, she researched transnationally, exploring forms of epic theatre in diverse political contexts. The work leads to long term collaborations with Brazilian, Mongolian and Nicaraguan companies. In 2006, Beauvais started directing operas and focusing on contemporary opera. She created a platform for her research by founding BadNewsFromTheStars*, a transterritorial and transdisciplinary laboratory for innovative convergences of sonic explorations, scientific researches and environmental studies. Together with SONIC MATTER festival, artist Claire Chase, anthropologist Eduardo Kohn and other researchers across the world, Beauvais is now elaborating THE WITNESS by Pauline Oliveros, a three-year long multispecies site-specific open laboratory with humans and more-than-humans in South America, North America, Africa, India, the Arabic region, Russia and Switzerland.