Bérengère Bodin studied at the CNDC in Angers (FR) in 2000. Her first choreography was the performance Les Mains Moites for three dancers, a tribute to Samuel Beckett. She joined the internationally renowned dance companies of Raimund Hoghe, Joëlle Bouvier, Robyn Orlin, Christoph Marthaler and Martin Zimmerman, among others. One of the most important artistic encounters in her career is undoubtedly her collaboration with Alain Platel, with whom Bérengère continues to work to this day.
Besides her work as a performer, she takes great pleasure in mixing different genres (theatre, dance and music) in her own creations. To this end, she collaborates with other artists, such as Kurt d’Haeseleer Je connais des gens qui sont morts, Nicolas Marie Je suis un Palimpseste et ce n’est pas un animal and Alstublieft, Lenneke Rasschaert Une Catastrophe Fantastique I and II, Steven Prengels Imaginary concert No 11, Alain Platel Another Sacre, Lien Wildermeersch Jackie, Maëlle Dequiedt L’enfant et les sortilèges (anempty house) …
In 2022, she presented her solo Une Île in Bruges, produced by KAAP, in which the relationship between voice and choreography played an important role. This extreme diversity remains the focus of her research… Like the full moon says is her new project in a duet with Ivan Fatjo (Premiere in Malpertuis on the 30th of January 2026).
Bérengère has also been in front of the camera several times and discovered she has a passion for film: Red Room and Words, both short films by Isabella Soupart, Un homme à la mer, a film by Géraldine Doignon and The scream by Philippe Grandrieux. She herself directed Zus zonder zus with Cacao Bleu, the final part of a trilogy on dance, and made the short film Au Suivant with co-director Philippe Piffet and twenty young people. Bérengère also starred in Why we fight, the documentary film by Alain Platel and Mirjam Devriendt that was nominated for an Ensor.
She still dreams of touching a language that could escape any definition, where pure emotion would viscerally embrace each spectator!
Photo: Tuur Uyttenhove
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