Georges Labbat is a choreographic and visual artist. Trained in dance at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) and P.A.R.T.S., he has created several choreographic pieces questioning the relationship between text and literature and movement. Alongside his creations, he has developed a plastic practice around the design of resin statues. It was the meeting of these two mediums that triggered the creation of his first piece, Self/Unnamed. In 2023, he began work on a new piece, WHIP, and a short film, Lacrymal, to continue the research he had begun earlier. In 2019, together with Solène Wachter and Némo Flouret, he founded Bleu Printemps, a platform dedicated to the development, research and creation of projects directly concerned with the body and performance. As a performer, he has worked with artists such as Boris Charmatz, Anne Imhof, Némo Flouret and the American choreographic duo Gerard & Kelly.

“If you’re ever in trouble / I’ll be there on the double”, sings Marvin Gaye into the emptiness. An intimate but eerie duet between a living and a lifeless body, between Georges Labbat and his doppelganger cast in resin: both are “receptacles of a one-voice dialogue” (Labbat). In absolute darkness, the rigid puppet and the P.A.R.T.S.-educated dancer-choreographer, who has taken the stage for performance greats like Anne Imhof and Gisèle Vienne, negotiate conflicting feelings of alienation and desire. Careful at first, this “lonely waltz” develops a childlike exuberance, continually changing roles and shifting dynamics, and forcing us to bring our own longings and trepidations to the table.