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The creative experimentation workshops are led by two professors active in the creation of contemporary works, who put the development of the students’ creative projects at the heart of their work.
Thanks to the workshops, the students develop their creativity through an experience that involves the creation, interpretation and design of plays, very often offered to the public in ‘site specific’ form.
Through various collaborations with the city of Geneva’s cultural partners and with the other departments of the HEM, the workshops are promoted on the local scene, with the search for links between music and movement opening up various fields of exploration in the digital arts, architecture, composition, etc.
The workshop is a unique occasion when the student explores the links between music and movement, a chance to discover and create multi-disciplinary pieces that blend together the body, the instrument and the space, and make it possible to tackle works in a variety of styles.
Head of the Music and Movement Department - Rhythmician, teacher, movement artist
Born in Lausanne in 1989, Florence Jaccottet is currently Head of the Music and Movement Department at the Geneva University of Music (HEM), where she has been teaching rhythm, movement technique and composition, and creative experimentation workshops since 2019. A specialist in the Jaques-Dalcroze method, she has over 10 years' experience in teaching rhythm, acquired in particular at the Jaques-Dalcroze Institute, where she taught a variety of audiences for several years. Her teaching has been recognised with several awards, including a prize for excellence in music theory teaching and the Alethéia Foundation Prize for the creation of ‘Entrée en matières’ (2017), in collaboration with percussionist Michael Chapon. Florence Jaccottet was trained from childhood in Jaques-Dalcroze eurhythmics at the Lausanne Conservatory. She also studied piano there in Helena Maffli's class, obtaining a Prize for Excellence in 2008. At the HEM Geneva, she pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Movement (Marguerite Croptier Lange Teaching Prize, 2011), a Master of Arts in Jaques-Dalcroze Pedagogy (Jaques-Dalcroze Institute Prize, 2013), and then a Higher Diploma, obtained in 2019. Alongside her teaching, Florence Jaccottet is developing artistic research focused on the musicality of improvised movement. She has a particular interest in contemporary music repertoire, collaborations with composers, and performative and sound experiments. Placed at the heart of her artistic research, the expression of rhythm and musicality of movement through improvisation makes her dance a unique contemporary language. Also active internationally, Florence Jaccottet is regularly invited to teach, notably in Seoul, Montreal and Beijing.
Atelier d'expérimentation créative / Électroacoustique Jaques-Dalcroze
Designer, artiste sonore et compositeur, Daniel Zea vit et travaille à Genève. Son univers artistique gravite autour de la musique instrumentale et électroacoustique, la performance hybride mêlant vidéo, son, systèmes de captation gestuelle et physical computing, ainsi que de la programmation. Il collabore régulièrement dans des projets interdisciplinaires (arts visuels, chorégraphie, performance), et il donne des cours à la Haute École d’Art et Design de Genève. Il participe à la direction artistique de l’ensemble Vortex, y travaillant à la fois en tant que compositeur et interprète de musique électroacoustique. Très actif dans le domaine pédagogique, il a été artiste référant des résidences artistiques multidisciplinaires à la Fondation Royaumont, et récemment au GRAME, centre de création musicale à Lyon. Sa pièce The Fuck Facebook Face Orchestra a été lauréate du Giga Hertz Preis 2016 du ZKM (Karlsruhe, Allemagne), et en 2017, Pocket Enemy a fait parti de la sélection de l’International Rostrum of Composers. En 2023 ira reçu le Prix pour les Arts Sonores de la Fondation Liechti. Dans son travail, il porte une réflexion interrogative et critique sur la relation de notre société au numérique, parfois avec un certain engagement politique non dépourvu d’humour. Cependant, ses intérêts musicaux ne s’arrêtent pas sur la création expérimentale contemporaine. Il est aussi passionné du folklore. Côté colombien, il explore le répertoire de la région caraïbe (cumbia, fandango, porro) avec Palenque la Papayera. Amoureux de la musique traditionnelle du Sud-est mexicain, il est membre des groupes Cocoxoca et Gema y sus Valedores. Daniel Zea était l’invité du Festival Les Amplitudes de La Chaux-de-Fonds en 2024. En savoir plus sur Daniel Zea