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Édith Amsellem

Marseille-based director and choreographer Édith Amsellem’s work centres on two strands: exploring the place of women in society, and creating performances outside traditional theatres, allowing each work to engage with the social or symbolic function of its setting. Her practice is multidisciplinary, combining theatre, dance, music, voice, performance, and visual art.

In 2012, she founded the ERd’O company, defining a dual focus on site-specific theatre and women’s place in society. Her first production, Les Liaisons dangereuses staged on a multisports court (2012), was followed by Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne on a playground slide (2015), J’ai peur quand la nuit sombre (2018), an immersive work in a park, and Virginia à la bibliothèque (2020). In 2022, she created Vous êtes ici, her first participatory piece.


She has since developed participatory projects centred on clothing, including Les Beautés (2024), a fashion-show portrait highlighting young exiles, and Les Superbes (2025), a smaller-scale work inviting young people to reflect on their relationship to the body and clothing, and to share experiences of appearance-based shaming. She created Le Grand Défilé for the Festival de Marseille in 2026.

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