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.. Biography: Frédéric Gies born in France in 1973, lives and works in Berlin.After studying ballet and contemporary dance, he worked with various french choreographers such as Daniel Larrieu, Bernard Glandier, Jean-François Duroure, Olivia Grandville and Christophe Haleb. In 1995, he creates the piece Because I love in collaboration with Odile Seitz. In 1998 he starts to work in collaboration with Frédéric de Carlo. They create together various performances: Le principal défaut (CND, Paris), Le principal défaut-solo (Centre George Pompidou, Paris), En corps (CND, Paris), Post porn traffic (Macba, Barcelona), In bed with Rebecca (Vooruit, Gent), (don’t) Show it! (Scène nationale de Dieppe), Second hand vintage collector (sometimes we like to mix it up!) (Ausland, Berlin). In 2OO4, he dances in The better you look, the more you see by Isabelle Schad and starts taking part in Good Work (California Roll). In the same year he begins a series of solos: Sleeping beauties/Ultra sexy amazons (1st version in Tanzfabrik, 2nd in Ausland, Berlin) and The bitch is back under pressure (reloaded) (Basso, Berlin). In 2006 he created Dance (Praticable) in the frame of Tanz made in Berlin. The same year, he also begins to take part in Still lives (by Gies/ Pelmus/ Pocheron / Schad). In 2007, he creates in collaboration with Alice Chauchat The Breast Piece (Praticable), in Tanz im August. He is currently working on a group version of Dance (Praticable) that is planned for October 2008 and prepares also a new piece: Album (Praticable).His choreographic work focuses on the political implications of choreographic writing and the body representations emerging from it. Deep researches on the bodily origins of movement, finding inputs in experiential approaches of anatomy and physiology, particularly in practices like BMC®, constitute the soil of his most recent work. He develops different methods for choreographic writing out of these investigations on body and movement, changing method for each piece he creates. With his pieces, he questions their own medium, dance, as well as he deals with other topics like authorship, gender representations, community or emotions, among others, in a playful destabilization of codes and conventions. More informations on : http://www.praticable.info