Jazmin Chiodi and Alexandre Iseli,
Choreographers/Directors of Iseli/Chiodi Dance Company (Ireland)


Alexandre Iseli was born in Switzerland where he started dance at an early age, and also graduated with a Masters es Scinece in Biochemistry and Zoology. Alexandre took part in the creation of many works in countries around Europe, Asia, Africa and America: Regine Chopinot (National Choreographic Centre of La Rochelle, France), Velvet-Joane Leighton (Brussels, Belgium); Odile Duboc (National Choreographic Centre of Belfort, (France); Phillipe Saire (Lausanne, Switzerland); Martine Pisani (Paris, France); Now Dance (Seoul, Korea); Dance Theatre of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland). Alexandre also practices Alexander technique and Yoga. His dance is based on sensorial play and in interest in finding situations where rational understanding and sensitive practice meet in the same space, questioning the relationships between nature and culture.

Jazmin Chiodi was trained at the Dance School of San Martin Theatre in Buenos Aires (Argentina). In 2000 she won the Antorcha Grant to study in France in workshops with Mathilde Monnier, Calotta Ikeda, Pina Bausch, Michelle Anne de Mey, Susan Buirge, Julyan Hamilton and Trisha Brown. In Argentina she worked with Marianna Belotto Dance theatre Company and Susana Szperling SZ Dance Company. In Europe she worked with Mathilde Monnier, Fabrice Ramalingam, Patrice Barthes, Leonardo Montecchia, Rex levitates Dance Company, Dance Theatre of Ireland and Now Dance Company (Seoul, Korea). As a part of this background she develops a language based on sensorial skills rather than a pure technicality, using techniques such as Yoga, Feldenkrais and FM Alexander.

Jazmin and Alexandre are co-founders and directors of Iseli-Chiodi Dance Company, dedicated to contemporary dance creation and to collaboration with other artists. The company is based in Ireland.The artistic creation processes developed in the company are part of a wider picture that integrates Tipperary Dance Residency and Tipperary Dance Platform, both directed by Jazmin and Alexandre, to promote dance as a practise, an art form and a way of life.The creations and projects led by Jazmin and Alexandre feed on the diversity of their experiences and encounters. They value a dance based on sensitive practise, open to all publics regardless of age, gender, culture or origin. Dance has lead them to live in foreign countries, away from their own cultural foundations, to meet and work with a great diversity of people, in a great variety of environments all over the world.