Michèle Prélonge

Classically trained, Michèle Prélonge switched to contemporary creation in 1980 when she came into contact with Régine Chopinot. For six years, she accompanied virtually all her work, including Halley's comet, Appel d'air, Swim one, Grand écart, Délices, Via, Le défilé and A La Rochelle, il n'y a pas que des pucelles. She took part in the first pieces by as-yet-unknown comrades Daniel Larrieu, Philippe Decouflé and Didier Deschamps, while studying the Cunningham technique in Paris and New York. Michèle also entered the world of Georges Appaix, Mathilde Monnier and Véronique Ros de la Grange.

From 1992 to 1996, she worked with Régine Chopinot at the CCN de La Rochelle, where she danced Façade, Soli Bach, Végétal, Saint Georges, Le Marteau sans maître and Dominique Bagouet's Le Saut de l'ange. She
enriches her skills in yoga, dance movement analysis and vocal technique, among others. In 1997, she choreographed and performed Quelques Minutes d'insomnie, a solo for Montpellier
Danse and, in 1998, she created Égoïne with Marco Berrettini and Sabine Macher for Le Vif du sujet-SACD at the Festival d'Avignon. Since 2000, Michèle Prélonge has considered herself an “episodic and vintage
At the CCN de La Rochelle, she took charge of Régine Chopinot's archives in 2002.