Marlène Myrtil
Choreographer - dancer
As a performer since 1991, Marlène Myrtil trained in contemporary dance with Bill T Jones, the Cunningham School and Peter Goss. She also studied hip-hop and African dance, and instant composition with Julyen Hamilton. Encounters with choreographers and directors from all horizons, including Germaine Acogny, Josiane Antourel, Max-Laure Bourjolly, Maurice Béjart, Jean-François Duroure, Marianne Isson, Jean-Marie Maddeddu and Irène Tassembédo, have nurtured her career as a dancer.
From 2003 to 2014, she was co-founder and author/performer of the LMNO collective - choreographic street theater. In 2020, along with her peers, she founded Kolectif 13, a choreographers' collective in Martinique.
The Kaméléonite company was founded in 1998, and to date, 18 dance pieces have conveyed her profound, poetic and political vision of the Caribbean. Tangente, solo, (1998) ; Lunathek, young audience, (2001), Chronique nomade, duo, (2003) ; Bal d'antan performance, (2008) ; Assentiments, triptych (2006-2008) ; Impérissable, conférence dansée, (2009) ; De Yabassi à Bizy, duo (2010-2011) ; Totem, solo (2011) ; Blues Ecarlate, quartet, (2012) ; Principe de précaution (2014) artistic collaboration with Myriam Soulanges, Back Art Diffusion ; Impérissable Trajectoires marines (2015), 1+1 (2017-2018) developing a theme of paternity and filiation; PaSSaGe(s), outdoor creation (2019); Chroniques agricoles - choreographic lyrics #Jardin créole and #Klimatik, quartet (2020-2021) - #Terres au féminin, trio (2022-2023) choreographic lyrics ; Océan brun, duet (2024) ; Tropique du Képone (2024) artistic collaboration with Myriam Soulanges - Back Art Diffusion.
Heritage, matrimoine, environment, ecology and post-colonial impacts are perceived as a vast field of exploration in an incessant dialogue with the plurality of the world. Marlène Myrtil's work is underpinned by investigation and immersion research, enabling her to experiment with the notion of the body by integrating a social and reflexive gaze. In this way, the collaboration and transmission processes are activated and continually reinvented to bear witness to a choreographic composition that is alive and sensitive to change.
Marlène's body and artistic research in psychiatric, prison and social communities, working with marginalized populations, is a fundamental approach that is both empowering and meaningful in terms of exchange.
Marlène complements her creative approach with somatic practices and therapeutic methods. She is certified in Shiatsu, Vinyasa yoga and Qi gong.