DAENCITY: Artistic residency for EPFL Students at Théâtre Sévelin 36
Dance workshop and reflective laboratory.
The body on stage in light of improvisation
Workshop within the “BODY” module of the CAS “Dramaturgie et performance du texte” run by La Manufacture and UNIL.
Movement Improv’
Movement improvisation workshop open to all EPFL students and staff every second Tuesday : 18th of March, 1st, 15th and 29th of April, 13th and 27th of May – MED hall
Past events
8 March 2025
Two women students shared their EPFL experience with secondary school students thanks to the TecLadies program, on International Women’s Day.
DÆNCITY students meet at Sévelin 36, for a Swiss wrestling workshop and performance by Johanna Heusser
20 November 2024
LUNCHenPHILO : Improvisation workshop given by Improgineering alumnae Marguerite Thery and Mathilde Richard with professor Simon Henein.
Photo : CDH, EPFL, Prudence Vanpoulle
13 November 2024
LUNCHenPHILO with Anne-Laure Gannac : Are engineers improvisers ?
Discussion with professor Simon Henein, sociologist Alain Bovet and coordinator of the Performance Lighthouse EPFL platform, Simona Ferrar.
Photo : CDH, EPFL, Daryl Jeker
8 June 2024
Public performances at Théâtre Le Pommier, Neuchâtel, of the EPFL students of the Improgineering course 2023-2024, including the vernissage of the book Barefoot Academic Teaching.
7 June 2024
1 June 2024
The body on stage in light of improvisation
At ARSENIC, Lausanne. Workshop taught by Simon Henein (professor in microengineering, EPFL) and Joëlle Vaterio (performer and teaching assistant, EPFL) within the “BODY” module of the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) “Dramaturgie et performance du texte” (CAS under the responsibility of Danielle Chaperon (professeur of French Literature, UNIL) run by La Manufacture and UNIL.
In the neo-avant-gardes of the 1960s, the body asserted itself as a means of blurring the boundary between art and life. The art of performance (happening, event, action, participation, improvisation…) contributed to a redefinition of theatre as a “living art” that continues to this day.
21 and 22 May 2024
Public performances at ARSENIC, Lausanne, of the EPFL students of the Improgineering course