Laure Pepin

Professor Laure Pépin obtained a PhD in Theatre and Performance in 2016 from the University of Bristol, in England.

She taught Performance Forms and Analysis in this same University, exploring different ways in which elements of performance practices have been configured through cultural contexts. In Paris she taught theatre, acting, improvisation and she directed contemporary plays with the Candela Theatre Company.

Her current research, both practical and theoretical, is looking at gender issues on the art scene, how gender is performed and how it can raise political and social questions.

She has been working closely with influential French feminist artists such as ORLAN, Catherine Baÿ and Déborah de Robertis and is involved in French feminist activism (La Barbe, OLF…). Thus she investigates the links between performance, theatre and activism.

Working closely with the Théâtre du Mouvement, her artwork is focusing on deconstructing gender stereotypes through disarticulating the body and using movement techniques (Feldenkrais, Laban’s..), intending to create a new body language that is more coherent with our own fictions and definitions of selves.

Her artwork and research are now based in France mainly.