Flora Détraz / Compagnie PLI

Through an exploration of medieval images, trivial ditties, and grotesque paintings, Muyte Maker celebrates disobedient and irrational bodies. It examines joy as a physical and existential statement: joy as desire and creative potential, going against the grain of morality, and as a physical distortion or contradiction. The four women performers sing copiously, laugh polyphonically, dance blindly, and chat cacophonously, to render the full complexity of their own bodies. — Flora Détraz


Flora Détraz has a ballet background and followed literature studies. She joined the course at Centre Chorégraphique National Lyon, under Maguy Marin, and then completed choreographic studies at PEPCC, Forum Dança, in Lisbon. Flora met artists who influenced her research, such as Meredith Monk, Meg Stuart, Vera Mantero, Lia Rodrigues or Marlene Monteiro Freitas. She started making her own pieces in 2013, questioning the relationship between voice and movements: Peuplements (2013), Gesächt (2014), Tutuguri (2016), Muyte Maker (2018) and Glottis (2021).