EMMA PASQUER

Emma Pasquer is a performer, director, and writer.

Her artistic engagement unfolds between creation, teaching, and research.

A student of contemporary dance at the CRR of Argenteuil, she continues her movement training as a self-taught practitioner through a variety of techniques (hip-hop, classical dance, yoga, qi gong, Thai boxing…). As an actress, she trained alongside Delphine Eliet at the École du Jeu. In 2012, she became her assistant and began a path of learning and transmitting the Technique of Intuitive and Bodily Confirmation, which she has been teaching herself since 2013.

In 2008, she founded the troupe EduLchorés (now the Compagnie Les EduLs), for which she has been the artistic director ever since. She directed all their productions and performed in Jeanne et Serge alongside Tristan Lhomel, Ma fille ne joue pas, Atypiques, and Cabane.

Since 2017, she holds a PhD in Performing Arts (supervised by Emmanuel Wallon at Paris Nanterre University), with a focus on interdisciplinarity in actor training.
The atypical nature of her path, situated between theory and practice, creation and teaching, as well as across disciplines, leads her to invent unique research protocols that generate diverse creations.

Ceremony is a research on our relationships to our beloved, to the ones we miss, to our origins. Directed by Emma Pasquer, this project gives birth to a first show, untitled Quel que soit le nom des absent·e·s (Whatever the name of the absentee), that will be presented for the first time in November 2025 in Paris. This creation brings together 5 performers, 5 women who invent a ritual to celebrate the memory of their ancestors and transform in joy and vitality the complex heritage of which they are the guardians. Inspired by the ritual of tarantism but rooted in the present and created with intimate materials, this show is an invitation to joy, at the sound of pizzica, to untie knots without denying ties.

During her stay in DOMUS, Emma first worked on the text of this show, which mixes words, mouvement and music. She will expose the manuscript, present the play and read a short extract. Then, she will share a brand new text, started in Galatina, untitled Emilia : an open letter to her great-great-grandmother in which she reconstructs and invents her story questioning the place of women, migration trajectories, language and transmission.