Clément Layes, born 1978 in France, attended the school for contemporary circus of Lyon and graduated at the Conservatoire National Superior de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (CNSMD) in 2003. From 2004 to 2010, he worked as a dancer with few choreographer (Odile Duboc and Boris Charmatz, among others). He had his breakthrough as a choreographer with the solo "Allege" (2010) and was invited by numerous theatres and festivals in Germany, Europe, Canada and the USA. He received the jury prize of the Infant Festival (Novi SAD, Serbia) and was awarded at the Prix Jardin d'europe 2011.

He created numerous performances and in 2018, Clément Layes accepted the invitation of the Venice Biennale of theater to present a retrospective of his artistic works to date. In the course of his artistic career, he developed a working method that confronts choreography, visual art and conceptual thinking in a research around objects of everyday life. His working method has been described and thematised in several publications, most recently in Martina Ruhsam's publication "Nicht -menschlichen Körper im Zeitgenössischen Tanz", which was awarded the Tanzwissenschaft Preis NRW 2021.

Since 2014, Clément Layes has been critically examining theatre as a place of art presentation. He co-founded the event series 3 AM at Flutgraben e.v. together with Jasna L. Vinovrski, and in 2019, another series of events followed: Flutgraben Performances as well as the residencies series - Flutgraben Residences. Public in Private Studio and Flutgraben e.v. has become an important alternative space for dance and performance in Berlin.

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