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Georges Labbat
Resident
01.09.2026 - 30.09.2026
Medici Residency with the Ménagerie de Verre
Choreography
Biography
Georges Labbat (1997, France) is a multidisciplinary artist trained in contemporary dance at the Paris Conservatory and P.A.R.T.S. His choreographic work explores how ideas and fiction can be expressed through movement. At the same time, he is developing a visual practice centered on sculpture, as well as an expanding body of work in video and film. In 2022, he created Self/Unnamed, followed by WHIP in 2024, which he adapted into a solo piece in 2025. He is currently writing his first short film, Lacrymal (2027), developing his next piece, Camélias ( 2027), and a series of experimental films in collaboration with Lou Rambert Preiss.
Project
Her residency project is dedicated to her upcoming work, Camélias. This musical and choreographic piece explores the relationship between two characters at the crossroads of eras and genres. Drawing on cinema and literature, the work traces the sequence of their encounters. The residency will be dedicated to writing the texts (spoken, sung, or projected), gathering material in preparation for the on-stage residencies, and conducting initial musical research with composer Paul J.F. Fleury.
Medici Residency
with La Ménagerie de verre
In 2024, La Ménagerie de verre and Villa Medici launched a cross-residency program aimed at welcoming one associate artist in Rome and one resident in Paris each year, with a particular focus on choreographic and performance artists. Each year, a choreographer - either an associate artist or in residence at La Ménagerie de verre - is welcomed at Villa Medici for a research and writing residency lasting a maximum of one month. La Ménagerie de verre in turn welcomes and makes its spaces available to an artist - a resident of Villa Medici - wishing to develop a performance project for a maximum period of one month.