Béatrice Massin

Béatrice Massin is a revered specialist of baroque dance. 

A dancer in several contemporary dance companies such as the Susan Buirge company, Béatrice Massin meets Francine Lancelot in 1983 and joins her dance company, Ris & Danceries.

As a member of Ris & Danceries, she is successively a dancer, Francine Lancelot’s assistant (Atys, 1986), artistic collaborator (Fairy Queen, 1989; etc.), choreographer (Water Music, 1990), before creating her own dance company in 1993, Fêtes Galantes.

Upon her encounter with Francine Lancelot, she immediately starts appropriating the baroque language. To Béatrice Massin, the discovery of the choreographic writing and of its stage codes defines a framework, the limits of which she will be playing with. Let my joy remain, a dialogue of pleasure between music of J.S. Bach and the musical quality of dance (2002) ; Un air de Folies, choreographic and musical performance mixes the airs de cour  to the Folies d’Espagne of Marin Marais (2007) ; Songes a baroque dream for the 21st century (2009) are some of her masterpeaces that have been performed around the world.

Béatrice Massin has regularly been commissioned (Le roi danse, movie directed by Gérard Corbiau, 1999; La Parade baroque, official opening of the Centre National de la Danse, Paris, 2004; Le loup et l’agneau, as part of Les Fables à La Fontaine project, La Petite Fabrique, 2004 ; European duet for the KoresponDance Europe project dedicated to the support of young choreographers in Czech Republic, France, Germany and Slovakia, 2010.)

In 2003, Béatrice Massin created in Paris L’atelier baroque a tool for research and transmitting knowledge in which she trains a new generation of dancers and choreographers.