Young Companies Competition

Suzanne Meyer is a French dancer and choreographer.

Trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School and the CNSMDP, Christine Gérard, Florence Vitrac, and Sylvain Prudenec marked her education. She moved from classical to contemporary, and upon leaving school, she became a soloist at the Crazy Horse Paris under the direction of Philippe Decouflé. Pursuing her curiosity, she left this institution and worked as a freelance artist in various sectors, including events, advertising, and musicals.

She performs in a much more contemporary register under the direction of Robert Carsen and Nicolas Paul at the Opéra Comique and in Vienna.

She is one of the performers of the collective "le Balcon" which is reviving the "Licht" cycle of Stockhausen's Operas and is performing in this context at the Opéra Comique, the Philharmonie, and the Southbank Centre in London.

She participated in Beyoncé's music video "Standing on the sun".

What characterizes Suzanne's career is eclecticism and the desire to bring together different worlds.

She worked as a choreographer for advertising, working for the director duo Maria and Ben, and then choreographed the opening ceremony of the Molières on three occasions.

Along the way, she felt the need to make her dance a more unique language and developed choreographic projects based on the technique of contact dance, after meeting Itay Yatuv, (Israeli dancer and teacher) who had a very strong influence on her path.

Alongside him, she trained in parent-child contact dance for very young children, and brought Contakids to existence in France.

In recent years, she has been called upon to work in cinema, having designed several dance sequences for Pierre Niney and Isabelle Adjani in Nicolas Bedos' latest film, "Mascarade." She also created all the dance sequences for a 1920s cabaret for Louise Bourgoin in Guillaume Bureau's first feature film, "C'est mon homme."

She recently collaborated again with Pierre Niney, with whom she shared a choreographic duet written for a Dior Beauty film. Nicolas Bedos renewed his trust in her by giving her the keys to the choreography of his next series for Amazon Prime, "Alphonse".

At the end of 2022, the Sézane brand gave her carte blanche to write and choreograph a film featuring palpation for breast cancer prevention. This is her first film.

Since then, she has continued to collaborate with this brand regularly.

In 2023, we will find her choreographing and performing a new duet at the Chaillot theater next September as part of the “on danse chez vous” edition led by Mehdi Kerkouche, and in the gardens of the Orangerie du Sénat, a project led by Emmanuelle Delanoë, who had the audacity to bring together several artistic worlds.

She participated in the documentary “Danse demain”, directed by Dounia Zellou.

She works every day to bring dance everywhere, even to areas that are resistant to movement. She also advocates for more shared experiences with non-dancers. This project will be at the heart of her work in the months and years to come.

In 2024, the events sector (Chanel, Hermès, Boghossian) called on his work to choreograph shows.

The program for the coming months will be devoted to free creation. An excerpt from the piece "Sous les paupières" (Under the Eyelids), for two performers, is scheduled for March at the Théâtre du Chatelet as part of the Women Choreographers Festival.