L'Âme-de-Fonds Company

L'Âme-de-Fonds Company was created in 2013 after the L'Âme-de-Fonds Dance Festival organised in La Chaux-de-Fonds by Simon Halbedo with the association Le Chambart, Switzerland. The company gathers international artists (dancers, musiciens, light designers, costume designers, and scenographs) who work with Instant Composition as an utter performing art form. The produced pieces are devoid of any kind of predefined scores or structures; they emerge out of each particular performing situation, within the common presence of the audience and the performers. In addition to its performing activity, L'Âme-de-Fonds Company spreads its artistic approach through the regular teaching of workshops where the participants are invited to immerse themselves into the training process of the company.

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List of the artists who have worked within the company

List of past events and artistic coordinators 

Artists who have worked within the company

Peter Aerni, Dance, Bern, Switzerland

Francesca Acuri, Dance, Perugia, Italy

Margaux Amoros, Dance, Paris, France

Léopold Banquini, Scenography, Geneva, Switzerland

Jacques Bouduban, Cello, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Cécile Brousse, Dance, Paris, France

Giacomo Calabrese, Dance, Rome, Italy

Paola Campagna, Dance, Rome, Italy

Pierre Cauderay, Scenography, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alessandra Cristiani, Dance, Rome
Manuela De Angelis, Dance, Rome

Gianni Ferrara, Video, Perugia, Italy
Sebastiano Foti, Dance, Rome

Daria Grispino, Lights, Rome, Italy

Susanna Grob, Dance, Bern, Switzerland 

Simon Halbedo, Dance, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Aurélia Ikor, Harp and Voice, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Christina Kristensen, Philosophy, Basel, Switzerland

Ana Leonor Ladas, Dance, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chantal Langlotz, Cello, Basel, Switzerland
Piero Leccese, Dance, Rome
Lukas Langlotz, Piano, Basel, Switzerland
Alexandra Macdonald, Dance, Lausanne, Switzerland

Anne-Sophie Malmberg, Costumes, Berlin, Germany
Susanne Martin, Dance, Berlin, Germany

Simone Marty, Text performance, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Susanne Mueller Nelson, Dance, Biel, Switzerland
Mary Pearson, Dance, Liverpool, England
Claudia Pelliccia, Dance, Rome, Italy 
Barre Phillips, Double bass, Southern France

Anna Pietsch, Dance, Gaillac, France
Dolores Pisino, Dance, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Anaïs Sartini, Video, Paris, France
Giancarlo Schiaffini, Trombone, Rome

Andreas Schmutz, Music, Bern, Switzerland
Mathieu Schneider, Flûtes, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Dafni Stefanou, Dance, Greece

Ilona Siwek, Dance, Biel, Switzerland

Leo Svirsky, Accordeon, Den Haag, Netherlands 

Simon Wenger, Poetry, Basel, Switzerland

List of past events and [artistic coordinators]

January 2025, 4-day Residency with 3 Workshops and 3 Performances composed of 6 short pieces each, Bern, Switzerland [Simon Halbedo, Susanne Martin and Peter Aerni].

December 2023, EXI(S)T / Tympanum, 2 Performances, Bern, Switzerland [Simon Halbedo]

January 2023, Les choses comme elles sont / Greyscale / Backlash, 3 Performances, Neuchâtel, Switzerland [Simon Halbedo]

December 2021, Au beau milieu / Au bas mot, 2 Performances, Neuchâtel, Switzerland [Simon Halbedo]

January 2020, Funkstille, 1 Performances, Progr, Bern, Switzerland [Simon Halbedo]

December 2019, Au seuil du silence, Residency, 4 Workshops and 4 Performances, Espace Sud, Neuchâtel, Switzerland [Simon Halbedo]

February 2018, Discanto, 2 Performances, Rome, Italy [Giacomo Calabrese]

December 2017, Residency, 4 Workshops and 3 Performances, Arsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland [Simon Halbedo]

July 2017, Residency, 4 Workshops and 3 Performances, Basel, Switzerland [Chantal Langlotz & Simon Halbedo]

May 2017, 1 Performance and 1 Workshop at Overtoom201, Amsterdam [Ana Leonor Ladas]

May 2017, 2 Performances with Barre Phillips, Neuchâtel & La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland [Simon Halbedo]

December 2016, Prosaic lines, 3 Performances and 3 Workshops, Neuchâtel, Switzerland [Simon Halbedo]

Octobre 2016, Magnifiche Presenze, 2 Performances, Rome, Italy  [Giacomo Calabrese]

August 2016, Cantica, 1 Performance, Castellaneta, Italy  [Giacomo Calabrese]

April 2016, Chiaroscuro, 1 Performance, Amsterdam, Netherlands [Ana Leonor Ladas]

May 2016, Dasein, 1 Performance, Rome, Italy [Simon Halbedo & Giacomo Calabrese]

 

June 2016, Residency and 7 Performances, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Neuchâtel, Switzerland  [Simon Halbedo & Giacomo Calabrese]

December 2015, Memory, 3 Performances , Neuchâtel, Switzerland

July 2015, Residency and 5 Performances, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland  [Simon Halbedo & Giacomo Calabrese]

June 2015, Chiodi, 1 Performance, Rome, Italy [Giacomo Calabrese]

December 2014, Passages,  3 Performances, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

October 2014, Shelter, Residency and 1 Performance, La Serre, Drôme, France [Magaux Amoros & Cécile Brousse]

June 2014, Si sta come d’autunno sugli alberi le foglie, 1 Performance, Rome, Italy [Giacomo Calabrese]

May 2014, Residency and 3 Performances, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland  [Simon Halbedo & Giacomo Calabrese]