Works by Mathilde Carmen Chan Invernon, moving between dance, voice and endurance.
He walks our streets, rides the bus, shares our Sunday lunch. He lives beneath our shirts — protector, saviour, victim. A stare that lingers, a sigh that goes on too long, an idolised body taking up space. With Bell End, Mathilde Carmen Chan Invernon builds a choreographic and sonic portrait of a familiar figure: the asshole. His micro-gestures and micro-words are drawn out for all that is at once comic and violent in them. The duo turns internalised norms inside out, exposing a language of domination that seeps into our bodies and our lives — moving between embodiment and dissociation toward something emancipatory, cathartic.
Last Movement (work in progress) is a choreographic and vocal performance that starts from emotional shocks and the traces they leave in our bodies. Moving between dance, breath and voice, the piece explores our capacity to keep beating, to move through collapse, and to bring forward new forms of presence — a sensitive inquiry into the body as a site of memory, resistance and transformation.
Press kit and high-resolution photos for Bell End, for programmers, journalists and festivals.
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Cie Carmen Chan is a dance, theatre and performance company based in Geneva, founded in 2023 by artist and choreographer Mathilde Carmen Chan Invernon. The company develops performative forms at the crossing point of dance, theatre and performance, where the body becomes a space for experimentation and transformation.
Its work pushes at the edges of presence through song, ventriloquism, endurance and altered states. Drawing on sociological, historical and feminist references, its creations question mechanisms of power, representations of the body, and forms of collective resistance.
Mathilde Carmen Chan Invernon is a French-Spanish actress, dancer, ventriloquist and choreographer. Trained at La Manufacture — Haute école des arts de la scène, Lausanne, she has built a practice at the intersection of theatre, dance and performance.
As a performer she has worked with artists including La Ribot (La Ribot Ensemble), Kuro Tanino, Trajal Harrell, Pascal Rambert and El Conde de Torrefiel, appearing in theatres, festivals and museums across Europe as well as on screen. Alongside this, she develops her own stage work and took part in Impulstanz's ATLAS programme, supported by Pro Helvetia.
Her pieces often take the form of minimalist devices exploring the tension between voice and body, the visible and the invisible, and the dynamics of domination — built from a physical writing marked by repetition and endurance. In 2023 she founded Cie Carmen Chan, creating with it her first piece, Bell End, for La Bâtie and Geneva's Pavillon ADC. The piece has since toured widely and continues to tour. A new creation, Last Movement, is currently in development.