BIOGRAPHY

Emmanuel Eggermont started training in classic dance from the age of 5 and then went on to study contemporary dance at the Ecole de danse du ballet du Nord, these days known as the CCN of Roubaix. While studying at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers, he discovered his real passion, choreography.

He started his performance career in Spain collaborating with Carmen Werner for three years.

During a tour in South Korea, he was invited by the Art Institute of Seoul to partake on a project that mixed education and choreography. The meeting with the Korean students as well as the cultural differences resulted in a choreography for twelve dancers. He stayed one and an half years, being under the spell of the country’s complexity. Durind this period he created a second choreography and did several improvisation performances in unusual places.

Back in France, in his region, he now wants to dedicate himself to it professionally. Concurrently, he again takes up his performance activities with choreographs like Gilles Verrièpe (Nord Pas de Calais) and Raimund Hoghe (Germany) who was Pina Bausch’s playwright during ten years. He has a real complicity with Raymond Hoghe with whom he shares many working principles and sources of inspiration.

Latitudes Contemporaines contribute in terms of administrative structuring and in terms of production.