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Thierry Thieû Niang is a dancer and choreographer.

Alongside his creative career, he initiates choreographic research workshops with professionals and amateurs alike, children, teenagers, adults and seniors, autistic people and prisoners.

Officier des Arts et des Lettres, winner of the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs, the Fondation Unesco-Aschberg and the Prix Chorégraphe SACD, he works with art schools, advanced conservatories of dramatic and choreographic art, neighborhood associations, hospitals and prisons in various cities in France and abroad.

This autumn, he is collaborating with various directors, choreographers, actors and musicians on shared creations, including Anne Alvaro, Ariane Ascaride, Marie Desplechin, Alice Diop, Léna Paugam, Babouillec, Tiphanie Romain, Roxane Revon, Nicolas Bazoge…

Thierry Thieû Niang is a guest artist in France at the MC93 in Bobigny, at the CDN Theater in Lorient, and at the Collection Lambert in Avignon; and in New York at L’Alliance New York, at The Language and Laughter Studio (LLS) and at The Invisible Dog Art Center.

Roxane Revon is a multi-disciplinary artist intrigued by the interdependence between species and more particularly between humans and vegetal beings. After graduating in philosophy and literature from La Sorbonne University (MA), she moved to New York where she started a career of theater director and continued her education (certificate Yale School of Drama, Stanford GSB).

She has been working as a stage director, teacher and scenographer for a decade while, more recently, developing multimedia installations and visual arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in major institutions in the US such as the Rockefeller Center, L’Alliance New York, the Invisible Dog Art Center, Art on Paper NY, Miami Aqua, and galleries in New York, Hong Kong, and Milan. She recently worked as a scenographer on “Shades of Spring” ballet at the Joyce Theater (NY) and “Cosi Fan Tutte” at The Kimball Theater (VA). Her recent residencies include LMCC Art Center on Governors Island, Celia and wally Gilbert Art & Science Fellowship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cinema Supply Art Program in Chelsea, Residency Unlimited and Artist Alliance (AAI). She has been teaching performing arts at CUNY, Columbia University, L’Atelier theater and PS 84.