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Brice Mousset (he/him) is Founder, Artistic Director, and Choreographer of OUI DANSE, a NYC project based dance company. Born and raised in Paris, France, Brice studied Biology and Human Sciences at Nanterre University before falling into the world of dance. After an eclectic performing career in Europe in musicals, operas, TV and dance companies, he moved to New York City to begin teaching and choreographing....Read more
Brice Mousset (he/him) is Founder, Artistic Director, and Choreographer of OUI DANSE, a NYC project based dance company. Born and raised in Paris, France, Brice studied Biology and Human Sciences at Nanterre University before falling into the world of dance. After an eclectic performing career in Europe in musicals, operas, TV and dance companies, he moved to New York City to begin teaching and choreographing. In Europe and the USA he choreographs for OUI DANSE and for film, fashion, circus, operas and musicals. He has choreographed for Broadway Bares, Broadway Cares/Equity Fight AIDS, and taught and made dances for some of the most prestigious American dance institutions such as SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, Point Park University, Alvin Ailey BFA Fordham program, Broadway Dance Center, and various others in NYC.
Brice has choreographed for and performed with Christine Dakin and was chosen by Mr. Robert Battle for the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation New Directions Choreography Lab. Mousset’s first work for OUI DANSE, “Travailler”, was Reverbdance APAP award winner for Best Choreography and Audience Favorite. The company performs extensively at venues such as Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out Series, Riverside Dance Festival, Danspace Project at Saint Mark’s Church, Luminaria Arts Festival, and Dancers For Good Festival. In France, 2020, at the invitation of Pierre François Heuclin, OUI DANSE will perform at Vaison Danses International Dance Festival and will be in residency at Lachapelle Saint Marie invited by Abou Lagraa. Brice is thrilled to have created a work for Martha Graham Dance Company 2.
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Created by Brice Mousset OUI DANSE style his provocative style, a fusion of European and American contemporary. Exploring new energies and movements, the students are encouraged to explore the movement with organic and emotional intentions. The class takes the dancers to work with unlimited imagination and pushes the physical boundaries of the body. Approaching the work with risk, athleticism, abandon, breath, weight, focus and intention; the choreography emphasizes a high degree of physicality and input from the dancers, encouraging them to execute the movement with specificity, focus and passion.
The class is divided in four segments:
1) warm up to center the body and articulate muscles and skeleton
2) improvisation to develop the artistry and imagination of the dancers but also to discover the infinite possibilities of their bodies.
3) partnering and dance contact
4) learning choreography to develop specificity of movement execution, coordination and memory