Artistic director and choreographer
Alexandra Gérard
For Alexandra Gérard, dance takes no side. Trained in classical technique in Moscow as well as in modern jazz and contemporary dance, she has made that refusal of borders a method: the spirit of the company she has led since 2002 moves between contemporary, neo-classical and modern jazz — not out of eclecticism, but because the work demands it. Her repertoire of 25 pieces draws first on philosophy and politics — alienation, confinement, freedom — before turning, from 2010, towards the dream and its magical power. Each work is a sketchbook feeding the next, and every dancer she trains becomes its interpreter as much as its material.
Biography
Compagnie Mozaïk Ballet' is led by Alexandra Gérard, a teacher certified by the French Ministry of Culture.
Alexandra Gérard trained across several disciplines, in France and abroad — Moscow, Belgium — with Rik Odums and Andrei Glégolsky, working in classical, modern jazz and contemporary technique.
At the Paris Opera she worked with principal dancer Michel Renault, who introduced her to Serge Peretti, also a principal, with whom she took classes at the Salle Pleyel. In parallel she trained at the Vacher-Colas ballet masters' school.
She danced with several companies: Alyocha Ponziewitch's CCO de l'Ouest, Itinérance and Ballet du Goéland. A prizewinner at various competitions, she was admitted by audition to work with Carolyn Carlson and Larrio Ekson.
At the Rennes Conservatory she worked with Ruxandra Racovitza and completed her training under Margarita Smirnova, principal dancer of the Bolshoi.
In 2002 she founded Compagnie Mozaïk Ballet' in Nantes and has been its artistic director ever since. She has created 25 works for it, from “Metropolis” (2003) to “Âmes” (2026), and trains the dancers who perform them.
Her work
25 works by Alexandra Gérard.