Biography

Bruno Benne

A specialist in Baroque dance and music, Bruno Benne is today renewing these arts with modernity by composing his own Baroque art. Surrounded by choreographic artists and musicians within the Beaux-Champs company, he reveals and hybridizes this heritage.
After training in classical dance at the CRR in Toulouse, he went on to study contemporary dance at the CNSMD in Paris. His encounter with Baroque dance came in 2005, when he began long-term collaborations with two specialists in this style: Béatrice Massin and Marie-Geneviève Massé.

Other experiences will sharpen his learning curve, such as interpreting the choreographies of pioneer Francine Lancelot for Atys in 2011, or those of Françoise Denieau and Nathalie Van Parys. As a performer, he has danced at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, the Opéra National de Paris and Opéra National de Lyon, the Bolshoi - Moscow, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Festival Cerventino - Mexico, the Barbican Center - London, the Festival Baroque de Montréal...
From his early days as a choreographer, he met and crossed his research with the American minimalism of Lucinda Childs, with whom he collaborated three times between 2013 and 2017. This permeability between baroque codification and conceptual abstraction gave him the material to rethink his relationship with time and space. He created several pieces with the Beaux-Champs company: SQUARE (2016), Caractères (2019), Rapides (2022)... and Ornements (2016) for the Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin.

Winner of the Fondation Beaumarchais in 2015, Bruno Benne has been an associate artist of La Barcarolle / Spectacle Vivant Audomarois since 2021.

More info on Cie Beaux-Champs website.