Alix Eynaudi dances, works and writes between craft & chaos in a (most of the time) joyful mess. She doesn’t work alone; any event, research, invitation is an alibi to spend time with accomplices, a mesh of friendships scintillating under skins, a stirring of a full-of-wonder support. She specializes in (deep) choreographic hanging out sessions.

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Alix Eynaudi danse, travaille et écrit entre artisanat et chaos dans un désordre (la plupart du temps) joyeux. Elle ne travaille jamais seule ; chaque événement, recherche, invitation est un alibi pour passer du temps avec des complices, un maillage d’amitiés scintillantes sous les peaux, une agitation d’un soutien plein d’émerveillement. Elle se spécialise dans des séances d’études collectives flânantes.

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Alix Eynaudi lives in Vienna. She trained as a ballet dancer at the Paris Opéra and worked in various ballet companies before entering PARTS in Brussels when the school first opened. In 1996, she joined Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s company Rosas, where she worked for seven years. Since 2005, she has been developing her own work, crafting numerous pieces in collaboration with other artists.

In 2019, she received a research grant, PEEK, from the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) for her project Noa & Snow. This project explored the capacities of poetry to ignite imagination across multiple writing modes and genres, investigating possible articulations between performance and writing practices. Despite unfolding during the pandemic, the project led to rich experiments of collective study, shared (digital) workspaces, and leakages of practices with co-researchers including Paula Caspão, Quim Pujol, and others, discovering dance as a space of study. Parallel to Noa & Snow, she created BRUNO (2021), a tribute to the light designer Bruno Pocheron, in collaboration with long-term partners Mark Lorimer, An Breugelmans, Cécile Tonizzo, Paul Kotal, and Hugo Le Brigand.

In 2023, Eynaudi began a cycle of collective studies around notions of rest, which branched into the Institute of Rest(s), funded by La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène – HES-SO Lausanne, and supported by Tanzquartier Wien, La Grange/UNIL Lausanne, Xing Bologna, le far° fabrique des arts vivants Nyon, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Volkskundemuseum Vienna, and ImpulsTanz Vienna. This project was enabled by a research grant from the City of Vienna, the Arbeitstipendium.

At the end of 2024, she developed Death by Landscape, a concert, a dense, nocturnal environment of sound, movement, and vision. Conceived with turf + surf (Paul Kotal & Han-Gyeol Lie) and in collaboration with Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh, Cécile Tonizzo (drawings and dance), An Breugelmans(costume design) and Hugo Le Brigand (dance), the piece brings together choreography, electro-acoustically prepared piano, film, drawings, light, and costume; a synesthetic forest of memory, mourning, and hallucinatory presence.

fiction fiction, created with Hugo Le Brigand, Han-Gyeol Lie, and Paul Kotal, is a choreography for dance and music, a shifting composition that reinvents itself with each context, first performed at the Wonderfruit Festival in Thailand, it keeps traveling in 2025. With Elizabeth Ward, she is currently developing it doesn’t go without saying (& other gossips), a choreographic inquiry into dance heritage and perception, centered on an expanded practice of audio description that shapes how dance can be witnessed and shared.

From this continuing investigation into rest and collective practice, Haunted Nap emerged with Paula Caspão—a series of sleep-reading haunted lectures moving between books, bodies, and voices lying down together. Presented in Porto, Fortaleza, and other contexts, the project unfolds as collective reading-sleeping-thinking and is evolving toward a stage version.

In 2025, she received a BMKÖS research grant for the project Library of Rest(s): Of Afters and of Arrythmias: on Campari and Companionship—a title riffing on Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves’s Of Forests and of Farms: On Faculty and Failure (Ugly Duckling Press). This funding supported the continuation and expansion of her research into rest, including new iterations of Haunted Nap, fiction fiction, and Death by Landscape, as well as the preparation of the polyphonic audio publication Resting Voices: A Library in Pieces, developed with sound designer Paul Kotal and Tanzquartier Wien.

Eynaudi continues to collaborate, perform, and research alongside artists including Jennifer Lacey, Anne Juren, Boris Charmatz, Samuel Feldhandler, Sabina Holzer, Litó Walkey, Jason Dodge, Virginie Bobin, Serena Lee, Paula Caspão, Valentina Desideri, Simon Asencio, and Christian Kosmas Mayer. Her work has been presented internationally in venues and festivals including Kaaitheater (Brussels), Xing Bologna, Macro Museum (Rome), Biennale di Venezia, CAC Vilnius, Tanzquartier Wien, brut Wien, le far° Nyon, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Festwochen Wien, and the Wonderfruit Festival (Thailand).

As part of her artistic work, Eynaudi engages in research and study with students and emerging artists at institutions such as PARTS/Studios Brussels, ImpulsTanz Vienna, HEAD Geneva, La Manufacture Lausanne, KASK UGent (S:PAM), festival le far° Nyon, Tanzquartier Wien, and École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille.

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Alix Eynaudi is a choreographic artist, interpreter, application writer, and organiser of public gatherings and collective learning platforms. Her work is driven by a desire to study — to keep studying, never alone.

Eynaudi’s background is rooted in Western experimental contemporary dance and ballet, traditions that themselves are entangled with appropriated knowledge, pagan artistry, social rituals, and the “follies” of royal courts. She does not claim these forms as her own, but engages with them as inherited, borrowed, and historically complex. As a white, European, female-identifying artist, she acknowledges both the privileges and the limitations that come with her position, as well as the uneven ways in which exposure, refusal, or rest are distributed across bodies.

Her work is motivated by the wish to keep sensing the beauty of moving while holding the political and biographical complexities that movement carries. She is interested in (re)practicing existing forces and in creating spaces where dance may briefly suspend the demand to reproduce a continuous image of self.

She further acknowledges the privilege of being able to create, perform, read, and gather collectively in times marked by genocides, monstrous violence, and dehumanization — conditions that make artistic work at once fragile, compromised, and ( necessary).

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Alix Eynaudi lives in Vienna. She was trained as a ballet dancer at the Paris Opéra, worked in various ballet companies before entering  PARTS in Brussels when the school first opened. In 1996, Alix joined Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker’s company Rosas where she worked for 7 years. Since 2005 she has been crafting numerous pieces in collaboration with other artists.

In 2019 Alix received a research grant, PEEK, from the FWF (the Austrian Science Fund) for her project Noa & Snow. This project aimed at exploring the capacities of poetry to ignite imagination across several writing modes and genres in order to shed some light on the possible articulations between performance practices and writing practices. Although concomitant to the pandemic, this project lead to wonderful experiments of collective studies through the sharing of works, (digital) workspaces, as well as to many leakages of practices with co-researchers Paula Caspão, Quim Pujol and many others, basking in dance as a space of study. Parallel to Noa & Snow, a piece was made, together with long term collaborators Mark Lorimer, An Breugelmans, Bruno Pocheron, Cécile Tonizzo, Paul Kotal and Hugo Le Brigand, called BRUNO (2021), a tribute to the light designer Bruno Pocheron.
In 2023, Alix started a cycle of collective studies around notions of rest that gave way to the project Institute of Rest(s), funded by La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène – HES-SO in Lausanne and supported by Tanzquartier Wien , La Grange Center /Arts et Sciences / UNIL Lausanne, Xing Bologna, le far° fabrique des arts vivants Nyon, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Volkskundemuseum Vienna and ImpulsTanz Vienna. This project was made possible by Alix receiving a research grant from the city of Vienna, the Arbeitstipendium, in 2023. The end of 2024 made way to a new project: Death by Landscape, a concert. This piece is thought of as a coming together of artistic endeavors by artists Han-Gyeol Lie & Paul Kotal (aka turf & surf), costume designer An Breugelmans, film maker Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh, visual artist Cécile Tonizzo, and dance artists Hugo Le Brigand & Alix Eynaudi.

In the meanwhile, Alix carries on collaborating, performing, writing, participating as an accomplice and companion alongside other artists, i.e. Jennifer Lacey, Anne Juren, Boris Charmatz, Samuel Feldhandler, Sabina Holzer, Litó Walkey, Elizabeth Ward, Jason Dodge, Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh, Virginie Bobin, Serena Lee, Paula Caspão, Valentina Desideri, Simon Asencio, Christian Kosmas Mayer among others. Her work has been presented in various international venues and contexts, such as i.e. Kaaitheater, Brussels, Xing, Bologna, Macro Museum, Roma, Biennale di Venezia, Cac Vilnius, Tanzquartier Wien, brut Wien, Le Far, Nyon, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Festowchen Wien, Wonderfruit festival, Thailand.

As part of her artistic work, Alix studies together with students from i.e. PARTS/Studios Brussels, ImpulsTanz Vienna, HEAD, Geneva, La Manufacture Lausanne, KASK (Performance) UGent (S :PAM), festival Le Far, Nyon (CH), Tanzquartier Wien, École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille.

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Alix Eynaudi is a French choreographer & dancer living in Vienna whose work is situated within the field of expanded choreography. Her projects explore different formats of making work public, such as publications, salons of collective studies & performances. She has worked as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects (AT de Keersmaeker, J. Lacey, A. Juren, B. Charmatz, E. Ward). Her recent stage works are Death by Landscape (2024), fiction fiction (2025), it doesn’t go without saying (2026). In 2019 Alix received a research grant, PEEK, from the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) for her project Noa & Snow. In 2023 she was the recipient of the Arbeitstipendium, the research grant for performing arts from the city of Vienna, which led to the project Institute of Rest(s), a project which is funded by La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène – HES-SO in Lausanne, and supported by Tanzquartier Wien, Volkskundemuseum Vienna, La Grange Center /Arts et Sciences / UNIL Lausanne, Xing Bologna, le far° fabrique des arts vivants Nyon, Tanzfabrik Berlin and ImpulsTanz Vienna.

Basking in dance as a space of study Alix dances, works, writes, between craft & chaos in a joyful mess of sorts. She doesn’t work alone; any event, research, invitation is an alibi to spend time with accomplices, a mesh of friendships scintillating under skins, a stirring of a full-of-wonder support.

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ALIX EYNAUDI dances, works, and writes between craft and chaos, embracing a (mostly) joyful mess. She never works alone; every event, research, or invitation is an alibi to spend time with accomplices—a mesh of friendships shimmering under the skin, a stirring of wonder-filled support. She specializes in choreographic hanging-out sessions. Her most recent works include Death by Landscape, a concert (2024), Institute of Rest(s) (2023-2025), and it doesn’t go witout saying (2026). Her work has been presented at: MACRO, Rome; Tanzquartier, Vienna; Kaaitheater, Brussels; far° festival, Nyon; Xing, Bologna; Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; brut, Vienna; Volkskundemuseum, Vienna; Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Wonderfruit festival, Thailand. She lives in Vienna.

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Her work is deeply indebted to Mark Lorimer ✂︎ An Breugelmans ✂︎ Cécile Tonizzo ✂︎ Paula Caspão ✂︎ Paul Kotal ✂︎ Jennifer Lacey ✂︎ Sabina Holzer ✂︎ Quim Pujol ✂︎ Jason Dodge ✂︎ Lydia McGlinchey ✂︎ Joachim Hamou ✂︎ Raimundas Malašauskas ✂︎ Anne Faucheret ✂︎ Anne Juren ✂︎ Bruno Pocheron ✂︎ Alice Chauchat ✂︎ Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh ✂︎ Agnès Quackels ✂︎ Mette Edvartsen ✂︎ Litó Walkey ✂︎ Frida Robles ✂︎ Han-Gyeol Lie ✂︎ Clara Amaral ✂︎ Simon Asencio ✂︎ Valentina Desideri ✂︎ Christian Kosmas Mayer ✂︎ Olia Sosnovkaya ✂︎ Serena Lee ✂︎ Elizabeth Ward ✂︎ Virginie Bobin ✂︎ Agnès Quackels ✂︎ Silvia Fanti ✂︎ Jacopo Lanteri ✂︎ Samuel Feldhandler ✂︎ Mzamo Nondlwana ✂︎ Goda Budvytytė ✂︎ Ari Ban ✂︎ Auguste De Boursetty ✂︎ Catol Texeira ✂︎ Yvane Chapuis