Cassandre Muñoz

Cassandre Muñoz / Moun is a French-Colombian dance artist, choreographer, and performer. She develops a transversal practice situated at the intersection of dance, performance and visual arts. Her work is rooted in the experience of a displacement whether geographical, bodily, symbolic, or semantic. It questions identity as a structure in tension -unstable and performative.

Her trajectory is marked by constant circulation between practices and contexts. These back-and-forth movements lead her to conceive the body as a site traversed by sheltering gestures, weather-like affects, invisible memories and power relations. Movement becomes a way of inhabiting uncertainty and welcoming falls, bifurcations, transformations, drifts, and accidents. In 2016, a transatlantic sailing crossing durably inscribed travel at the core of her practice, not as a destination but as an experience of time.

Coming from a Colombian and French background, raised in Toulouse by a white mother, for several years Cassandre Muñoz has been exploring the question of the “elsewhere,” both real and imagined. Her work holds in tension polarities often perceived as contradictory : individual/collective, intimate/political, control/letting go, micro/macro, fall/surge. She approaches these dichotomies not as conflicts to be resolved but as open spaces -spectrums supported by a logic of tensegrity.

This research currently unfolds within the Prosopon Project, a long-term project centered on the face and the mask as material and performative surfaces. Clay and paraffin masks, performances, installations and videos (notably assisted by artificial intelligence) coexist as autonomous and interdependent fragments. From this framework emerges Nekuia, a performative research project in development, conceived as a space of invocation and survivance, transformations through belief.

Alongside her personal projects, Cassandre Muñoz collaborates as a performer with numerous figures of the contemporary scene, including François Chaignaud (Petites Joueuses), Volmir Cordeiro (Abri, Parterre), Youness Aboulakoul (Ayta), Emmanuel Eggermont (All Over Nymphéas) and Annabelle Playe (Magna). She is a long-term resident at the Ateliers Poush Manifesto in Aubervilliers and directs the company So Far. In 2024, she was awarded the Performance Prize at the Nova XX Biennale at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris.