Anna Chirescu

Trained at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, Anna Chirescu (1986, France) has collaborated with various choreographers and danced Merce Cunningham’s repertoire in particular. In 2017, she co-founded the Lava company alongside visual artist Grégoire Schaller, developing projects mixing dance and visual arts. In 2022, she created VACA, followed by her first solo, KATA, in 2025. Her work explores the links between the body, memory and politics through dance. With a degree in Letters and Humanities, she adopts a multidisciplinary approach integrating dance, voice, narrative and visual arts, questioning the objectification of bodies, the tensions between intimate and collective, and personal mythologies.

Her residency project focuses on the notion of utopia, drawing on the imagination of Monte Verità, an emblematic avant-garde site of the 20th century. Inspired by its pioneers, she will explore contemporary legacies and resonances through archives and experimental practices. This research will lead to the creation of ‘monte verdura’, a collective piece that extends a performance created at the invitation of the MBAL in Switzerland and its director Federica Chiocchetti. It will be inspired in particular by the book ‘les voix magnétiques’ and the exhibition ‘la scia del monte ou les utopistes magnétiques’, in partnership with the Fondazione Monte Verità.