Murielle Elizéon – Dance/USA Artist Fellow

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Image Description: Murielle Elizéon stares directly into the camera, gently smiling as if she has a playful secret. Murielle is a bi-racial woman of color with shoulder-length black hair. She is seated on concrete steps wearing a red peacoat and grey beanie. Autumn light shines to Murielle’s right, her hands softly clasped as she leans towards the camera onto her elbows, resting on her knees. Photo by Anna Mayard.

Murielle Elizéon

she/her

Saxapahaw, NC | Sissapahaw, Eno, Shakori, and the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation

Murielle Elizéon is a French-American choreographer, performer, embodied dramaturg, facilitator, and teaching artist. She was born and raised in an Italo-Africano-Indian French family in a distressed neighborhood of Nice, South of France. Informed by her lived experience, Elizéon understood the transformative power of embodied listening and moving practices to incite radical imagination and resilience.

Elizéon studied Italian Literature and Dance Aesthetics while completing her contemporary dance training in Nice and Paris, France, where she began her professional dance career in 1995. She also completed a DanceAbility Teacher certification with Alito Alessi at Impulztanz in Vienna, Austria in 2010, studied Argentine tango in Argentina and Germany for 15 years, completed her yoga teacher training in the US in 2015, and has practiced Qi Gong and meditation for 20 years. Elizéon is a certified practitioner in a somatic modality called Focusing and is currently training in Generative Somatics and NVC (non-violent communication).

In 2014, Murielle moved to the US and co-founded Culture Mill, a Performing Arts Laboratory in Saxapahaw, NC, with Tommy Noonan. Culture Mill fosters a creative and inclusive ecosystem through artist residencies, community-centered initiatives, and groundbreaking immersive artworks. Culture Mill has won regional awards and has been commissioned and presented by numerous national and statewide arts institutions.

For the last 30 years, Elizéon has collaborated and performed with various choreographers and directors as well as shared her own work across Europe and the US. Throughout her performance career, Elizéon has taught contemporary dance workshops to professionals. She has enjoyed leading multigenerational, cross-sector projects and performances involving various abilities since 2010, and she has spearheaded the Parkinson’s Performance Project since its founding in 2017.

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Image Description: Murielle stands in a cluster of smiling adults, gently placing flat hands on one another’s. Murielle is framed by individuals wearing light blue, bright yellow with floral print, faded red, and magenta. Murielle is a bi-racial woman wearing a black tank top and green beanie. Murielle smiles too, her gaze meeting the hands she is holding. Photo by Emily Miller.
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Image Description: Murielle is positioned on her hands and knees, her head pointed towards the camera. She leans against her collaborator to her left who is in the same position. Murielle is a bi-racial woman and her long black hair is draped over her face. She wears all black, the marley floor is black, and the curtains framing the window behind her are black. Her collaborator to her left is a white man with short black and gray hair. He wears a black shirt and olive green pants. Photo by S Pascal Boudet.
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Image Description: Murielle stands against a white wall, illuminated by a soft, bright white light. She wears a layered, delicate, light brown paper dress that is loosely draped over her torso and spills down her body, onto the floor, and out of the frame. Murielle’s face is concealed by a light brown paper mask that has a single strand of golden beads pouring out of each eye. Her black hair is tucked into the mask. Murielle is a bi-racial woman with her arms gently extended along the wall on either side of her body. Photo by Sarah Marguier.
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Image Description: Murielle shares a white platform with cellist Shana Tucker. Shana, a Black woman with her hair in a bun on the top of her head and wearing a jumpsuit, plays the cello and gazes down at Murielle. Murielle, a bi-racial woman with her hair in a bun and wearing layered athletic clothes, is laying on her right side. Her position is as if standing but laid on her side. Her head rests on the platform. The walls around them are white. The photo is black and white. Photo by Sarah Marguier.

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