Manon Siv Duquesnay

Denmark
Year of starting to practice
2011
Year of starting to teach
2014
Manon Siv Duquesnay

I am Manon, person, dancer, artist, researcher, body, movement.

Dance moves me by its infinite possibilities, presence, vulnerability, intelligence, power, ephemera(bility). I see movement as consciousness, energy, anatomy, relation, magic, transformation and communication.

Born as French-Danish in Christiania, Denmark in 1990. Since 2012 living in France, Sweden, Argentina and Spain, speaking 7 languages.

BA in Dance Performance from DOCH - Stockholm University of the Arts 2015, including an exchange at Institut del Teatre, Barcelona. Choreographer and performer of the transnational research and performance collaboration DuqLav Dance. Artist curator of the feminist performative platform Project V. Worked for Public Sphere/Andreas Liebmann, KIT (Metropolis, NyCirkus Festival, Move it!), Dansehallerne and as assistant choreographer for Kitt Johnson. Teaching Animal Instinct with Matan Levkowich. Part of Fronteiras - a nomadic community of artists offering artistic processes within marginalized populations - with Khosro Adibi. Internationally danced and performed with Sara Shelton Mann, Jefta Van Dinter, Cristian Duarte and Mette Ingvartsen amongst others.

Significant teachers
Sara Shelton Mann, Anya Cloud, Charlie Morissey, Karen Nelson, Matan Levkowich, Cristina Turdo, Ray Chung, Ralf Jaroschinski, Lucas Condro