La Ribot
LaBOLA

LA RIBOT
Born in Madrid, La Ribot lives in Geneva and works internationally.
Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2020 Venice Dance Biennale. Swiss Grand Prix for Dance by the Federal Office of Culture in 2019. Premio en Artes Plásticas de Comunidad de Madrid, España 2018. Medalla de Oro al Merito en las Bellas Arte, España 2015. Premio Nacional de Danza, Ministerio de Cultura, España 2000.
“La Ribot is a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist. Her art emerged at the end of Spain’s democratic transition in the 1980s and has gone on to profoundly change the field of contemporary dance. She defies the frameworks and formats of the stage and the museum, borrowing freely from the vocabularies of theater, visual art, performance art, film, and video to achieve a conceptual shift in choreography. Her solos, collective explorations, experiments with amateurs, installations, and moving images are the many facets of a protean practice that constantly focus on the rights of the body.”
Marcella Lista, writer and New Media curator – Centre Pompidou, Paris 2020.
Her choreographic work has been presented at Tate Modern (London), Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), Festival d’Automne à Paris, Aïchi Triennale (Nagoya, Japan), Galerie Soledad Lorenzo (Madrid), Museu Serralves (Porto), Art Unlimited – Art Basel, S. M.A.K (Ghent), MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico DF) and others.
Her visual work is part of the private and public collections of the Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the CNAP -Centre national des arts plastiques (Paris), the MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León), the Artium (Centro – Museo vasco de arte contemporáneo), the FRAC Lorraine (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain)…

PIERA BELLATO – performer
After completing a Master’s degree in International Relations at the University of Geneva, Piera Bellato graduated as an actress from La Manufacture in Lausanne in 2013. She has since worked with artists such as Lucile Carré, José Lillo, Eric Salama, Stéphanie Blanchoud, Nina Negri, les 3 Points de suspension, Vincent Coppey, Isis Fahmy… She also works on research projects involving thought on stage, particularly with one of her collectives, the Third Floor Group. After serving as associate artist of l’Abri in Geneva in 2019-2020, her own project, a cross between dance and theater entitled Merci pour cette danse, will be presented next seasons at l’Usine à gaz in Nyon and at Théâtre du Loup. Since 2020, she has accompanied La Ribot, notably in two projects, Pièce distinguée No54 at Le Commun in Geneva and Distinguished Anyways for the Real Academia de España in Roma. In October 2021, she joins La Ribot Ensemble as a permanent performer.

MATHILDE INVERNON – performer
Mathilde Invernon is a Franco-Spanish actress and dancer. After studying dance and theater at the Conservatoire in Paris, she graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor’s degree in theater from La Manufacture – Haute École des Arts de la scène, in Lausanne. She performs for theatrical, performance and film productions. She has initiated performative creations such as El Intruso, performed at LUFF, Gaîté Lyrique and Alte Munze in Berlin, and more recently Let’s Pretend for Théâtre Sévelin 36. She directed and wrote The Bath, which was performed at the TLH in Sierre and at the Théâtre du Crochetan. She danced in La Ribot’s creations, Pièce distinguée No54 at Le Commun, Geneva, as part of DANCE FIRST THINK LATER, and Distinguished Anyways, performed at La Real Academia de España in Roma. She will continue this collaboration from October 2021, as a permanent performer with La Ribot Ensemble.

JUAN LORIANTE – performer
Born in Santander in 1959, Juan Loriente was a professional tennis player before discovering his vocation for the stage. He studied performing arts at the Universidad de Cantabria and at Odin Teatret, Denmark, with Torgeir Wethal and the International Exchange Natacha Project. Since 1999, he has collaborated with playwright and director Rodrigo García, in solos such as Borges (1999) and plays such as After Sun (2000), Compré una pala en Ikea para cavar mi tumba (2003), La historia de Ronald el payaso de McDonald (2003), Accidens : Matar para comer (2005) and Gólgota Picnic (2011). He has worked with La Fura dels Baus, Carlos Marquerie, Elena Córdoba and Ion Munduate, among others. He has collaborated with La Ribot on two duets: Los trancos del avestruz (1993) and Oh! Sole! (1995), and on numerous other projects, including Another Distinguée (2016), Distinguished Anyways (2021) and LaBOLA. Loriente also directs research projects and radio and theater workshops.

Direction, concept : La Ribot
With : Piera Bellato, Mathilde Invernon, Lisa Laurent, Juan Loriente, Thami Manekehla, Ludovico Paladini
Costumes: La Ribot, Marion Schmid technical
Direction and lighting : Marie Prédour
Executive producer : Aude Martino
Production and communication : Iris Obadia
Administrator : Gonzague Bochud
Production : La Ribot Ensemble