ABOUT

Graduating from a BA (hons) Performance Design & Practice at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), Aline Derderian spent a year in Paris studying dance research. In 2016, she was a recipient of the Leverhulme Grant for the Arts enabling her to pursue her path on the MFA Choreography programme at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance received with distinction. Many trips to The United States and Armenia entailed a vivid wish to connect her performance art background, Armenian roots and postmodern dance influences in order to develop choreographic processes  and curatorial projects that question and challenge the archetypal female dancing body as a catalyst for contemporary diasporic performance writing and cultural survival.

Aline defended her PhD thesis in 2022 at Rennes 2 University supervised by Marie-Noëlle Semet-Haviaras : Dance & Inter-act : From feminine diasporic gestures to choreographed performances. Derderian practice-led research explores innovative ways to envision a feminist historiography of dance through the lens of postmodern choreographer Anna Halprin, Southern California feminist activist performance art pedagogy, and Armenian female movement artists in diaspora.  Associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins from 2016 to 2020, Aline Derderian taught set design for dance and choreography at the occasion of modules such as Dance Lab or Design for Dance in collaboration with Rambert School of Contemporary Dance & Ballet, Central School of Ballet and London Studio Centre. Aline currently choreographs, dances and performs with CONSENSUS & ALINE DERDERIAN she founded in 2014. She facilitated choreographic workshops in various places such as Fine Arts department of Rennes 2 University, lectured on the Performing arts BA (hons) in Angers UCO, Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex Yerevan. Dance works include performances for Bouchra Ouizguen, Dimitra Petsa, Mette Sterre, Anatoli Vlassov, Scatter Dance Company, Corinne Lanselle…