Cleo Tabakian is a dance artist, living in Marseille, France. She graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Paris in 2014 and from the Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London in 2018.
Her dancing dialogs with somatic practices and martial arts, with an appetite for paradoxes: stability in mutation, form, formlessness, absorption and expansion, silence and noise, openings and closings.
Deeply influenced by Joan Skinner’s approach to movement, she understands the pedagogy as a wonderful and necessary way of (just) being. She also perceives an empowering and strengthening potential within the practice, to do perhaps, with a wide and global sense of fairness…
Cleo is a strong advocate of the pedagogy, in France especially. With Ana Stegnar and Bettina Neuhaus, she is working on the creation and publication of a booklet about SRT in French.
As a visual artist, her graphic work provides new visions of the physical self. In her book in progress: Movement Speculation, drawings are combined with an epical poem, composing what she calls an anatomy of transformation.
Cléo has been working and teaching children extensively and their playful and selfless attitude has been a great source of inspiration.
Languages spoken: English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese (Basics)
Intro / Ongoing SRT Certificate:
2024
Location:
Marseille, France
Website:
https://cleotabakian.fr/
Email:
cleo.tabakian@hotmail.fr