Flora Détraz

Flora Détraz is a French-Portuguese choreographer and performer. She has a ballet background and followed Literature studies. She enters the course at Centre Chorégraphique National Lyon, under Maguy Marin, and then completed the choreographic studies at PEPCC, Forum Dança in Lisbon. She had the opportuniy to meet artists as Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Vera Mantero, Lia Rodrigues, Meredith Monk, Loïc Tousé, Meg Stuart, Jonathan Burroxs, among others, who influenced her own work. She started making her own pieces in 2013, questionning the relationship between voice and movments : Peuplements (2013), Gesächt (2014), Tutuguri (2016) and Muyte Maker (2018). Glottis is her new piece (2020). As a performer, she is currently working with Marlene Monteiro Freitas in the piece Bacante – Preludio para uma Purga.