HERVÉ

His career began at the École de Danse Supérieure de Cannes (Rosella Hightower) and at Rudra Béjart, a dance and performing arts center founded by Maurice Béjart in Lausanne. As a performer, he has worked with companies in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Austria, collaborating with choreographers such as Patrick Tridon, Misha Van Hoecke, David Sonnebluck, Cesc Gelabert, Robert Poole, Rui Horta, Giacopo Godanni, and Sabine Dahrendorf. At the end of 2002, he settled in Barcelona, ​​where he began his teaching career and his creative and choreographic journey with Sara Sanguino.

In 2004, they premiered “L’O”, the first duet with the company Les 4 Souffles, with which they developed their own repertoire for seven years. His experience leading a company led him to combine creation, management, dissemination, and teaching, the latter being an essential pillar for connecting with the audience.

During this period, she devoted much of her time to exploring body language, gesture, and expression, increasingly opening herself up to the field of somatic education. Her first exposure to the Feldenkrais Method completely transformed her approach to movement; her dance teaching and creations were clearly influenced by this discovery.

During his time with Les 4 Souffles, and with the support of Marie-Christine and Daniel Dal-Farra and their center, Les Studios Actuels de la Danse, he was invited to participate and create videos aimed at vulnerable audiences, in co-production with psychiatrist C. Robert Cloninger (USA). Along with a team of professionals from the fields of health and the arts, he collaborated on productions that chronicled the lives and work of historical figures, using movement as a pretext to convey history, culture, well-being, and profound values ​​through visual and sensory means.

Between 2009 and 2015, he taught contemporary dance at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona and with the young company. His work in training new generations motivated him to expand his teaching resources, attending workshops with Blandine Calais-Germain (“Anatomy for Movement”) and Odile Rouquet (“Analysis of Danced Movement”). The latter generously shared with him valuable knowledge acquired throughout her career as a dancer, teacher, and creator.

At the same time, she continues to develop her creative side, creating various pieces with middle school students for end-of-year workshops.

On February 22, 2016, together with Sara Sanguino, she opened Obrador de Moviments, a center that focuses on the integration of somatic techniques into the arts of movement and dance.

Since then, it has evolved into a reference space that brings together the three axes that motivate them most: learning, artistic creation, and human relationships.

In 2017, she began organizing accredited Feldenkrais Method training sessions, and Hervé seized the opportunity to become a certified teacher. Since 2023, they have both served as managing directors of Feldenkrais Training Barcelona.

At Obrador, Hervé teaches contemporary dance classes for adults and young people at different levels, as well as the Creative Workshop, weekly and individual Feldenkrais classes, training for professionals, and private classes for young people in training.

From time to time, Sara and Hervé teach workshops and creative labs open to an increasingly diverse audience, offering a space to explore, experience, and enjoy movement and dance in all their expressions.

In 2024, together with an international team of artists and educators, they began collaborating on Erasmus+ exchange projects. These participatory and international projects are developed through creative workshops and dialogue spaces, with the aim of giving voice to young people from different European countries. Through choreographic arts, voice, music, and audiovisual arts, young people share their artistic experiences and their vision of the benefits of the arts in our society.

In addition, they manage and coordinate the growth and proper functioning of all the areas promoted by the center.