Golfier Florent

Florent Golfier is a French dancer, performer and choreographer based in the Czech Republic. He studied acting in Nancy and dance, clown and physical theatre at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Together with Lukáš Karásek, Marie Gourdain and Zuzana Režná, he founded the physical theatre collective tYhle, he has co-created nine performances as a choreographer or performer. He has worked with choreographers including Karine Ponties, Kitt Johnson, Vít Nezval, Spielraum Kollektiv and Ondřej Holba. As an artist, he aims to connect with the fragility we all shareand from which we draw inspiration, honesty and power, and to aid others in accepting it as a precious part of ourselves. Based on this artistic approach, Florent searches for ways to connect initiatives across disciplines in order to work on acknowledging and making precise our present and future identities. His newest project called Babel trilogy, its first part being the dance piece Wrestling with language, continues with a series of linguistic and movement laboratories that he organizes together with the Czech-German Psycholinguist Prof. Dr. Barbara Mertins.