PØST Cie Emilie Gallier is a one-man business based in the Netherlands with the aim to contributes to the development of choreographic and post-disciplinary art through practice-based research, production and education; for a wider understanding, impact and change of Choreography.

The core of Emilie Gallier's work lies in her understanding of choreography as existing from the moment a relation is established with a spectator. From this assumption, choreography can take place in a variety of contexts that she is keen to investigate. Driven by an interest for choreographic protocols, being traditional or subversive, Emilie Gallier searches for new sets of relation that may allow distorting boundaries, reversing patterns, turning expectations upside down. Her vision dances within her concerns that are spectatorship, limits of systems of thought, the movement of writing and writing movement, reality, sensation, imaginary.

Emilie Gallier’s approach starts from encounters with real situations and detailed observations of the context within which she evolves. She proceeds with incongruous juxtapositions: objects, concepts, words are gathered to generate movements of thoughts. The later are materialized in different formats (performances, scores, books, installation, texts, lectures) that represent platforms for dialogue with her audience (spectators, readers, collaborators). Her language is influenced by the notation system Kinetographie Laban, poetry, improvisation methods, the practice of yoga, visual arts. It aims to sculpt sensations and gather conditions for a composition with the moment, micro-movements, intimacy and continuity. Minimalist works emerge and invite to an active contemplation from the audience, an invitation to decipher, perceive, and receive.

Emilie Gallier is choreographer, researcher, director of the PØST Cie. Her work (presented in Norway, France, Luxembourg, and Netherlands) probes ways to expand boundaries by using scores, senses, audience participation, and collaboration. With her artistic collaborators, she re-thinks and transcends limits. She confirmed her use of notation merged with imaginary when she attended the program "Transforme" in the PRCC (Program for Research and Creation in Choreography, Royaumont) directed by Myriam Gourfink, and as she studied Labanotation at the Conservatoire de Paris. In the frame of the Master program in Choreography in ArtEZ (Arnhem, NL), she studied with Eva Karczag, Bruno Listopad, Alison Isadora, Jonathan Burrows, Peter Pleyer, Joao da Silva, Ric Allsopp. Her research investigates how to transform the matter of performance through the "dorsality" (David Wills); it questions ways to expand performance and to look at it from unforeseen angles.


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