Mickael Marso Riviere

About the research

This project is a research-led exploration into the dancer’s body and mindset, investigating how movement, perception, and decision-making intersect in real time. It asks whether an immersive experience can be created that allows audiences to sense what it might feel like to inhabit a dancer’s body, rather than simply observing movement as spectacle.

Developed in collaboration with dance artist Jamaal O’Driscoll, the research draws on shared experiences of performance, competition, and physical practice. While breaking informs the work, the approach is not style-specific and applies to any embodied practice where the body negotiates pressure, memory, risk, and adaptation.

The project will experiment with a range of filming perspectives in collaboration with filmmaker Benn Williams, including body-mounted cameras, first-person POV, 360° cameras, bird’s-eye views, and eye-level shots. In dialogue with X-ray artist Hugh Turvey and physiotherapy consultant Nefeli Tsiouli, the research will also explore skeletal and internal imagery to reveal processes such as injury, strain, and recovery.

The residency focuses on experimentation and discovery, generating insights to inform future interdisciplinary work.

About Mickael Marso Riviere

Mickael Marso Riviere is a UK-based choreographer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist working across contemporary dance, Hip Hop, and physical theatre. He is the founder of Company Decalage, GalleryMarso, and the international platform KRE8!Lab.

Trained at the Rosella Hightower International Dance School in France and London’s National Centre for Circus Arts, his movement language blends floorwork, breaking, circus, and improvisation.

His work has been commissioned and presented internationally by organisations including Acosta Danza, the British Council, Birmingham Hippodrome, Breakin’ Convention, and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His research project Phantom Limbs received the One Dance UK Award for Research in Dance, and his work spans stage, film, photography, and interdisciplinary collaborations.