RENAUD WISER

Renaud Wiser was born in Lausanne in 1979. A recipient of the Migros scholarship for young dancers, Renaud trained with the Ballet Junior in Geneva. In 2000, after completing his training, he joined the Ballet du Grand Theatre de Genève before continuing his career as a dancer with the Ballet National de Marseille,The Gothenburg Ballet, Rambert and Bonachela Dance Company. Since 2010 Renaud performs as a freelance on selected projects.

Renaud is the Artistic Director of Renaud Wiser Dance Company, a London based company created in 2013 and is a founder-member of New Movement Collective (nominee at the 2013 and 2014 National Critic Circle Awards and associate company at Rambert). Twice commissioned by Dance City in Newcastle, his work has been presented in key venues in the UK including The Place, Dance City, DanceEast, Greenwich Dance, Pavilion Dance South West and Rich Mix as well as in festivals in Spain, Poland, Latvia, Italy and Switzerland.

Guest tutor at the Architectural Association – School of Architecture, Renaud has a particular interest in collaborative work and in merging practices with a rang of art forms including Architecture, Film, Music, Digital Art and Design. In 2018, Renaud created The Disappearing Act, a new work for his company. In 2016, he co-created and performed in Collapse, a period drama at the London Southbank Centre with New Movement Collective.

Renaud worked as movement director for a production of Othello at the Bristol Tobacco Factory. He is a former recipient of the Once Dance UK mentoring programme, took part in Dance East Rural retreat for future leaders in 2015 and is an associate artist at Swindon Dance. Since May 2018, Renaud is the new artistic co-director of Newcastle based company Fertile Ground. In September 2018 Renaud was part of the winning team of the first Dansathon organised by BNP Parisbas and Sadller’s wells and will present their winning project at Sadler’s Wells in September 2019.

collaboration

An important part of Renaud’s practice is developping collaborative and cross disciplinary works. This interest led him to co-found New Movement Collective (NMC), a group of artists collectively redefining the boundaries of choreography and performance through ambitious, cross-disciplinary work. At the heart of their creative approach lies an ongoing reconsideration of the relationship between performer and spectator, acknowledging that both are active partners in performance. In NMC productions, the immediate experience of movement, sound and other media encourages curiosity and compels action, and in doing so, expands the possibilities of where choreography is manifested.