http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0jV67WVyfM"When I was a child, I dreamt of becoming a comic book artist. Drawing is often at the origin of a new creation for me. I get my ideas down on paper, sketching anything that comes into my head. My culture is built on comic books, musical comedies, dancing in night clubs and… Oskar Schlemmer, the Bauhaus choreographer. Discovering photos of the characters in his "Triadic ballet" was a revelation to me. I had always wanted to work with simple geometric shapes like cubes and triangles; I was attracted by the way these lines and volumes interacted with each other. Alwin Nikolaïs taught me the importance of light and costumes and instilled in me a belief that everything can be mixed together. In terms of my dance technique, Merce Cunningham was my most important teacher. In New York, I followed the video courses that he gave himself. That was a fascinating experience which taught me how to overcome problems related to distance and geometry, and the basic rules of optics and movement. Tex Avery was a key influence in the way he sought out apparently impossible movements. That remains a strong part of me: this desire to seek out bizarre movement, something extreme and delirious…
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