Isabela Fernandes Santana is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher born in São Paulo, currently based in Paris. Her practice creates spaces where otherness is exercised, assembling gestures to rethink the world, evoke memory, and generate new aesthetics. The act of performance is a force field, a generator of fictions written through the body. She studied Communication and Body Arts at the Catholic University of São Paulo before developing her own choreographic work, presenting solos and duets in festivals and galleries. She received the Funarte Klauss Vianna Dance Prize in 2009 for her first solo Imanências (2010). She joined C.E.M. - Centro em Movimento in Lisbon, then pursued the Master Exerce under the direction of Christian Rizzo at ICI-CCN Montpellier. As a dancer, she has collaborated with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Bernardo Montet, Volmir Cordeiro, and Michelle Moura. She is also part of Calixto Neto’s latest 2025 creation, Bruits Marrons.

What remains after a disappearance? Drawing on the metaphor of black holes, Isabela Fernandes Santana combines the intimate experience of loss with Brazil's colonial history. How many black women have disappeared, their bodies swallowed up or made invisible? In search of spaces, the vibrant edges where movement, emotion and memory coexist, La Couleur Perdue makes its way beyond the "point of no return".

Open to all, with no pre-requisites, this monthly workshop for adult amateurs is an opportunity to meet, through their work, the artists who are involved with ICI this season. The dance club invites you to experiment with a wide range of practices, creative processes and warm-up rituals, with a focus on the precision of choreographic writing.

"During the workshop, we will study movement patterns, temporal, rhythmic and spatial choices, asking ourselves what motivates us on a physical and energetic level. Why do we dance? What changes does my body undergo when I move? Through these questions, we explore changes in the structure and shape of the body as we dance.

The focus is on the body, contemporary forms of movement and other popular Brazilian manifestations. We will also pay particular attention to individual and collective interaction.

The idea is to interact through games, carnival steps and energy exchanges, with the aim of embracing risk, discovering the joy of vulnerability and following new and unexpected paths."