Marie-Caroline Hominal

 

Marie-Caroline received her dance education at the Schweizerische Ballettberufschule (ZHDK TanzAkademie) in Zurich and at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, where she joined the National Youth Dance Company.

Her practice includes choreography, performance, video, drawing, music.

She has developed miniature one-to-one performances such as Le Triomphe de la Renommée (2013), The Last Dance (2015) and Ballet Solo (2018) as well as full length performances such as Patricia Poses by the Pop Machine (2011), Ballet (2014), Taxi-Dancers (2016), Grrrrrrrrrr (2018).

She also created the music one woman band performance Silver (2013) and the artisanal radio show Where’s the MC (2015).

Following her research on the notion of authorship with the series Hominal/XXX, she invited Markus Öhrn for the first piece Hominal/Öhrn (2018), and then Nelisiwe Xaba for the second piece of the series : Hominal/Xaba (2019).

She has collaborated with the electronic musicians Clive Jenkins, Cristian Vogel, visual artists Kim Boninsegni, David Hominal and Delphine Coindet and co-created Duchesses (2009) with François Chaignaud.

As a dancer, she has worked with the Tanztheater Basel, Irène Tassembedo, Blanca
Li, Gisèle Vienne, Gilles Jobin, La Ribot and Marco Berrettini (with whom she co-signed the duo Ifeel2).
She was a guest performer for Human Writes by William Forsythe and B.O.B by Dick Wong.

In 2019 she was awarded “Outstanding female dancer” by the Swiss federal dance jury.
Since 2008, her work has been presented in both theaters, museums and galleries in all Europe, China, South America and USA.