Lydie Toran

Artist, author, academic from Avignon, Lydie Toran holds a double doctorate in literature and performing arts. Trained in dance and performance with established artists such as Cindy Van Acker, Nach, Jan Fabre, Maguy Marin and Jan Martens, among others, her practices invest performance art in France in renowned places such as Beaubourg Paris and the Lambert Collection, or ordinary places dedicated to everyday life.

In New Mexico, United States, his creations in ink on vegetable paper are carried by a plasticity of movement. They aspire to an ideology of peace in a performative approach consisting of preparation of the body on the ground.

With years of practice and teaching in his place of residence, the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque for Sumi e, the Alliance Française in the same city and the University of Avignon for literature, the Pavillon Bosio in Monaco for scenography and ESA Avignon for performance, Lydie Toran specializes in project teaching. Linked to her experiences as a researcher or speaker and to her artistic practices, her critical publications focus on the relationships between living art and visual art, notably with Ghelderode and Jan Fabre; his poetic publications observe the sensitivity of a state of being in the world and the environment offered by the planet.

In 2019, with the composer Rodriguez Vangama she founded the Compagnie Artères, producing shows and exhibitions. One of its principles - friendship and rapprochement between humans - despite the ideological clashes massively relayed by the media, seeks to rediscover the essential link between humans and the Earth.