Clémence Baubant

Nurtured by her Caribbean origins, Clémence Baubant has a rhizomatic nature. She cultivates a taste for metamorphosis, protean objects, imbalance and the elusive. Weaving together an obsession with questions of memory, traces and transmission, she reflects on the subject of identity as a place of friction and porosity between bodies. The question of transversality has always been at the centre of her dialogue with choreography.
Trained in classical dance at the CNR in Toulouse, she completed her training at the Centre Off Jazz in Nice, the Alvin Ailey Dance Centre in New York and P.A.R.T.S in Belgium. She then went on to study Language Sciences at the University of Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès.

She first developed her work in a collective dynamic, then within the Empreintes company, which has been supporting her projects since 2020. Her research is at the heart of the dialogue between dance and music. She explores composite forms involving bodies, rhythms and sounds.

In 2019, she was the winning choreographer of the ‘Prototype VI’ programme at the Abbaye de Royaumont under the educational direction of Hervé Robbe. In 2021, she was awarded the Selective Grant for Podcast and Radio Creation Authors by the Ministry of Culture for her audio documentary project [Déboulé – mémoires du carnaval de la Guadeloupe], produced in collaboration with composer Paul Ramage.

In 2022, she was a finalist with TRIBU[T] in the Danse Elargie choreography competition, featuring 18 international creations selected from 453 projects, on stage at the Théâtre de la Ville – Espace Cardin in Paris.
Inspired by the strength and power of Guadeloupe’s carnival Déboulé, she is currently conducting a series of research projects and creations focusing on a reinterpretation of Caribbean rituals and mythologies. She is also an associate artist at the LLA-Créatis (Literature, Languages and Arts) Research Laboratory at the University of Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès.