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 is a choreographer, performer, artistic researcher and educator based in Vienna. She trained in ballet at the Paris Opéra Ballet School and in contemporary dance at P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, and performed with Rosas / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker from 1996 to 2002, touring internationally with works including Rain, Drumming and Fase. Since 2002 she has developed an independent practice across choreographic creation, performance, writing and collective study. Her work has been presented at Tanzquartier Wien, Kaaitheater Brussels, Tate Modern, Kampnagel Hamburg, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Kunsthalle Wien, ImPulsTanz Vienna and the Biennale of Sydney, among others. She has performed in works by Robert Wilson, Boris Charmatz, Anne Juren, and Jennifer Lacey.

Her artistic research focuses on performance, language, labour, rest and collective study as artistic and social practices. She was Principal Investigator of the FWF PEEK-funded project Noa & Snow (2019–2022), exploring poetry, writing and choreography as integrated research methods. She currently leads the long-term research platform Institute of Rest(s) (2023–ongoing), developed through Restshops, (Im)mobility Salons and public study formats in collaboration with La Manufacture Lausanne, Tanzquartier Wien, Tanzfabrik Berlin and ImPulsTanz, among others. Her recent works include it doesn’t go without saying (& other gossips), a collaboration with Elizabeth Ward, and the oral library Resting Voices: A Library in Pieces (2026). Her upcoming project is the one-to-one prophetic séance performance Presages, small acts of love (premiering at brut Wien, December 2026).

As an educator, she teaches at P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, La Manufacture Lausanne, Cndc Angers, and has taught at institutions including the Danish National School of Performing Arts, KASK School of Arts, HEAD Genève, and Tanzfabrik Berlin. She has contributed to festivals and international training contexts including ImPulsTanz, far° Nyon and Tanzquartier Wien. Her publications include edited books, essays and artist writings, most recently in Sur les bords (T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, 2026), Suzon by Raimundas Malašauskas and Le Journal de la Recherche (2025).

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Alix Eynaudi dances and works between craft and chaos, in a (mostly) joyful mess. She doesn’t work alone; every event, research, or invitation becomes an alibi to spend time with accomplices—a mesh of friendships scintillating under the skin, a stirring of wondrous support. A crowd assembles, oscillates, agitates; workshopping and freeing the textures of the everyday together, re-assembling the emulsive factors, the whips that whip the cream: an “undomesticated menagerie” (misquoting Mark Foster Gage) of inheritances layered within each other’s presences, chewing and tuning frequencies in and out of their everydays.

In other terms, Alix Eynaudi dances in the fields of expanded choreography at the intersections of dance, performance, and artistic research. Her work unfolds through collaborative processes involving movement, sound, writing, rest, and language. This is central to her recent oral library Resting Voices: A Library in Pieces and her upcoming project Presages, small acts of love, an embodied practice of prophecy as a one-to-one performance space. Over recent years, she has presented performances, long-term research projects, publishing experiments, and intimate public formats in theaters, libraries, and informal spaces.

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Alix Eynaudi is a choreographer, performer, artistic researcher and educator based in Vienna. Trained in ballet at the Paris Opéra Ballet School and in contemporary dance at P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, she performed with Rosas / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker from 1996 to 2002 before developing an independent practice. Her work — presented internationally at venues including Tanzquartier Wien, Kaaitheater Brussels, Tate Modern, Kampnagel Hamburg, Festival d’Automne à Paris and the Biennale of Sydney — unfolds through choreographic works, publications, and collective study formats. Her artistic research focuses on performance, language, rest and attention, materialized in her recent oral library Resting Voices: A Library in Pieces (2026) and her upcoming world premiere Presages, small acts of love at brut Wien.

She is the initiator of the long-term research platform Institute of Rest(s) (2023–ongoing), supported by HES-SO / La Manufacture Lausanne, and was Principal Investigator of the FWF PEEK-funded project Noa & Snow (2019–2022). She has received a Dance & Performance Scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (Austria, 2025) and a Work Grant from the City of Vienna (2023). She teaches at Cndc Angers, P.A.R.T.S. Brussels and La Manufacture Lausanne, among others.

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Alix Eynaudi trained at the Paris Opéra and once danced with Rosas before slipping into her own dances of tenderness and trouble. Her works practice care as choreography, crafting languages and technologies of repose that keep company with fatigue and delight. Most of the time, she moves between friends and fictions, tending to the (mostly joyful) mess called work.

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Alix Eynaudi lives and works in Vienna. She trained as a ballet dancer at the Paris Opéra and danced in several ballet companies before joining P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels when the school first opened. In 1996, she became a member of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s company Rosas, where she remained for seven years. Since 2005, she has created her own pieces in collaboration with a wide range of artists, presenting work internationally at Kaaitheater (Brussels), Xing Bologna, Macro Museum (Rome), Biennale di Venezia, CAC Vilnius, Tanzquartier Wien, brut Wien, le far° Nyon, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Festwochen Wien, Wonderfruit Festival (Thailand), and Grazer Kunstverein.

In 2019, she was awarded an FWF PEEK research grant for Noa & Snow, a project examining poetry, dance, and collective study during the pandemic alongside co-researchers Paula Caspão and Quim Pujol. In parallel, she created BRUNO (2021) in collaboration with Mark Lorimer, An Breugelmans, Cécile Tonizzo, Paul Kotal, and Hugo Le Brigand. In 2023, she initiated a cycle of studies on repose that became the long-term platform Institute of Rest(s). Funded by La Manufacture (HES-SO Lausanne) and supported by an international network of partners (including Tanzquartier Wien and Tanzfabrik Berlin), this platform birthed Haunted Nap—a series of sleep-reading lecture performances created with Paula Caspão. The project continued through the Library of Rest(s) with a 2025 BMKÖS research grant.

Her recent performative works include Death by Landscape (late 2024), a synesthetic concert-like forest of memory created with turf + surf (Paul Kotal & Han-Gyeol Lie), Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh, Cécile Tonizzo, An Breugelmans, and Hugo Le Brigand; and fiction fiction, which premiered at the Wonderfruit Festival in Thailand (2024). In April 2026, she premiered it doesn’t go without saying (& other gossips) at Tanzquartier Wien, a re-fabulation of postmodern dance history created with Elizabeth Ward. Her recent oral library Resting Voices: A Library in Pieces (2026) has been presented at the TQW Library as a cycle of listening sessions and an ongoing audio installation in the form of Pillow Books. Her upcoming project is the one-to-one prophetic performance Presages, small acts of love (premiering at brut Wien). [1]

Alongside her choreographic creations, Eynaudi has developed an extensive teaching practice. She works with students and emerging artists at institutions such as Cndc Angers, P.A.R.T.S./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 background is rooted in Western experimental contemporary dance and ballet—traditions she treats not as inherently her own, but as inherited, borrowed, historically complex, and entangled with social rituals or appropriated knowledge. As a white, European, female-identifying artist, she acknowledges both the privileges and limitations of her position, particularly how exposure, refusal, or rest are unevenly distributed across bodies. Her practice is driven by a deep desire to keep studying—never alone—and to create spaces where dance may temporarily suspend the demand to reproduce a continuous image of the self. She holds the privilege of gathering, reading, and performing collectively during times marked by systemic violence and dehumanization, recognizing artistic work as a fragile, compromised, yet necessary venue for collective care.

This ethos anchors her long-term collaborative projects, such as her work on the Institute of Rest(s), the collective history-making of it doesn’t go without saying (& other gossips) with Elizabeth Ward, and her oral library Resting Voices: A Library in Pieces—which manifests as shared listening environments and an archival installation of Pillow Books. It continues into her upcoming relational séance Presages, small acts of love (brut Wien). As an educator, she embeds these questions of collective study, somatic care, and choreographic hanging out into her work with students internationally, teaching regularly at Cndc Angers, P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, La Manufacture Lausanne, and Impulstanz Vienna, among others.

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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 / UNIL Lausanne, Xing Bologna, le far° 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 years 2024 to 2026 brought a succession of new endeavors: Death by Landscape, a concert-like forest of memory with turf + surf and Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh; fiction fiction at Wonderfruit; it doesn’t go without saying with Elizabeth Ward; the oral audio-installation Resting Voices: A Library in Pieces (and its Pillow Books at TQW); and her upcoming performance Presages, small acts of love at brut Wien.

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, Festwochen 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, Cndc Angers (FR).

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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, and 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 stage works and installations include Death by Landscape (2024), fiction fiction (2025), it doesn’t go without saying (2026), and the oral library Resting Voices: A Library in Pieces (2026), which circulates both as listening sessions and as physical pillow book installations. Her upcoming project is Presages, small acts of love, a prophetic séance performance debuting at brut Wien. 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 from the City of Vienna, which led to the long-term research platform Institute of Rest(s)—a project funded by La Manufacture (Haute école des arts de la scène – HES-SO in Lausanne) and supported by Tanzquartier Wien, Volkskundemuseum Vienna, La Grange / UNIL Lausanne, Xing Bologna, le far° Nyon, Tanzfabrik Berlin, and ImPulsTanz Vienna.

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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 Agnès Quackels ✂︎ Alice Chauchat ✂︎ An Breugelmans ✂︎ Anne Faucheret ✂︎ Anne Juren ✂︎ Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker ✂︎ Ari Ban ✂︎ Auguste De Boursetty ✂︎ Bruno Pocheron ✂︎ Catol Texeira ✂︎ Cécile Tonizzo ✂︎ Christian Kosmas Mayer ✂︎ Clara Amaral ✂︎ Elizabeth Ward ✂︎ Eva Holzinger ✂︎ Frida Robles ✂︎ Goda Budvytytė ✂︎ Han-Gyeol Lie ✂︎ Jacopo Lanteri ✂︎ Jason Dodge ✂︎ Jennifer Lacey ✂︎ Joachim Hamou ✂︎ Julia Müllner ✂︎ Litó Walkey ✂︎ Luis Pisetta Ravanelli ✂︎ Lydia McGlinchey ✂︎ Mark Lorimer ✂︎ Mette Edvartsen ✂︎ Mzamo Nondlwana ✂︎ Olia Sosnovkaya ✂︎ Paul Kotal ✂︎ Paula Caspão ✂︎ Quim Pujol ✂︎ Raimundas Malašauskas ✂︎ Ray Scheinecker ✂︎ Rio Rutzinger ✂︎ Sabina Holzer ✂︎ Samuel Feldhandler ✂︎ Serena Lee ✂︎ Silvia Fanti ✂︎ Simon Asencio ✂︎ Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh ✂︎ Valentina Desideri ✂︎ Virginie Bobin ✂︎ Yvane Chapuis ✂︎ Yves Mettler

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