Camille Mutel is a dancer and choreographer.
 

Performer for Hervé Diasnas, Jean Claude Gallotta, and most recently, Matthieu Hocquemiller, she owes her choreographic language principally to her memorable encounter with the radicality of butoh. She was a student of  Masaki Iwana for 5 years, and continued to deepen her understanding of Japanese culture by dancing for choreographers such as Akira Kasai or Yukio Waguri in Japan and Europe between 2000 and 2010. 

 

The piece Effraction de l’Oubli (The Breaking of Oblivion) that she choreographed in 2010 allowed her to obtain institutional recognition in France and abroad with the company Li(luo) that she continues to direct to this day.
 

In 2014, she was a laureate of the Villa Médics Hors les murs. She traveled to Japan to research the erotic engravings shunga. Upon her return, she created Go, go go, said the bird (human kind cannot bear very much reality) and affirmed, thanks to the presence of her collaborateurs, a precise and minimalist choreographic language, marked by profound poetry. 

 

In 2019, she spent 4 months at the Villa Kujoyama where she studied tea ceremonies. There she started writing a quadrilogy entitled The Place of the Other (La place de l'autre).
 

Not I, solo created in the winter of 2020, is the first component. For the piece, Mutel received a grant for choreographic developpement from Bourse de la Fondation Beaumarchais SACD. The piece was programmed at the Collection Lambert for the festival Viva Villa! and at the  Théâtre de la Ville for 5 dates in April 2022.

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In 2020, she was a laureate of the DGCA where she was given support to research the art of gesture. Her work entitled Write a secular ritual, a study of gesture (Ecrire un rite laïque, étude de geste) was deposited at the BNF in 2024.

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This research served as a foundation for the second part of the quadrilogy entitled Yet each man kills the thing he loves (Pourtant chacun tue ce qu'il aime). For this, Mutel set the choreography on Kerem Gelebek and Philippe Chosson.

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Presented at the CND as part of the manifestation Canal in January 2024, this piece will be adapted for the outside in the summer of 2025. Currently in the production phase, The salt of life (Le sel de la vie) constitutes the third part of the quadrilogy.