Alexandre is a choreographer, dancer, dance curator and executive manager.
He is co-founder (with Jazmin Chiodi), and director of Tipperary Dance and the Tipperary Dance Festival, a development and performance space with international ramifications founded in 2008.
Dance at Heart is his motto. Dance as language spoken by our physical bodies through many idiosyncratic layers of culture, memories, life trajectories that embed our existence, and sometimes override the essence of who we are: sensorial, sensitive animals, before being verbal beings.
Alexandre’s views are deeply influenced by his scientific training (MSc in Zoology, Animal Ecology and Biochemistry; BTS in Nature Protection). He became a full-time professional dancer in 1993, working in Switzerland, France, Belgium and Korea before settling in Ireland. He has toured over 35 countries worldwide with choreographers & companies such including Régine Chopinot CCN (Centre Chorégraphique National, La Rochelle), Joanne Leighton CCN (Belfort), Philippe Saire and Liz Roche Company.
Including the works co-created with Jazmin, Alexandre has created nearly 20 choreographic works, pieces and films, mostly through collaboration processes with other artists, and including a number of commissions. Their work has toured in more than a dozen countries.
In 2016, EDN (European Dance Network) highlighted Tipperary Dance as a model of good practice for relevant dance development, in the catalogue ‘How to make dance relevant? Examples and practices’.
