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Born August 18, 1970, Dominique Uber is a French choreographer, dancer, comedian and actress.

At the age of 6, she began her initiation to classical dance at the Institute of Dance and Arts of Isère founded and directed by Janis Godfrey, dancer and teacher of British origin. At 14, she studied ballet at the Princess Grace Dance Academy in Monaco with Marika Besobrasova, then trained at the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing in London, where she obtained her Diploma in Classical Ballet & Modern Dance with Honors.

She began her career at the CH-Tanztheater in Zürich before joining the Compagnie Maguy Marin which propelled her onto the international scene from 1992 to 2005. In parallel to her collaboration with Maguy Marin, in 2002 she founded the Compagnie Doppler, which gave birth to several works. She is particularly famous in May B, created in 1981 at the CNDC, which she will perform more than 350 times. To date, she has produced some twenty pieces of which she is the author, and thousands of choreographic performances.

From 2011 to 2013, she acts in various plays by director Yves-Noël Genod. Her first appearance was in "Chic by Accident" with Jeanne Balibar, Valérie Dréville, presented at the opening of the Festival Etrange Cargo 2018 at the Ménagerie de Verre. In 2012, we find her in "I take care of you personally" at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, alongside Valérie Dréville and Lorenzo de Angelis. In 2013, she performed in "Le moi danse" at Point Ephémère for the Festival Petites Formes (D)cousues, with Camille Laurens, Emmanuel Lagarrigue and Damien Gajda. Finally, she took part in the play "1er avril" released in 2014 at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord under the direction of Yves-Noël Genod.

She began an acting career during which she notably played alongside Dominique Pinon. In 2010, she made her film debut with The Host and the Cloud, a production by French artist Pierre Huyghe, with the now-phantom Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions as a filming location. The film is programmed at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris, New York and London, as well as at the Espace Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, at the Center Georges Pompidou and at the MoMA. The screenings are organized in conjunction with the installation of Pierre Huyghe's sculpture Untilled12 (Liegender Frauenakt) in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Second role in Ferdinand Knapp by Andrea Baldini, she plays the wife of Ferdinand, himself played by Dominique Pinon, and Philippe du Janerand (his double). The film is in the official selection of the Venice Film Festival 201413, the Cannes Film Festival 2014 and eighty other festivals.

She also practices acting coaching. In 2011, she trained Sophie Quinton for her role in Poupoupidou by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu where she played the character of Marylin Monroe.

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Dominique Uber

Actress

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