Dancer

Ariane Roustan

Ariane Roustan was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She received her dance training at the École Nationale Supérieure de Danse de Marseille, the Jeune Ballet du Québec in Montréal and the Palucca Schule Dresden. Her first engagements took her to New York, where she danced for Sidra Bell, Bennyroyce Royon and Brian Carey Chung. From 2009 to 2013 she was engaged by the Tania Pérez-Salas Compañía de Danza in Mexico, with whom she toured internationally in several pieces. She then returned to Europe to perform and choreograph with a Parisian collective of multidisciplinary artists. In Italy and France, she freelanced with choreographers such as Paolo Mangiola, Fabio Crestale and Shi Pratt before joining Compagnia Zappalà Danza in 2015 and participating in several creations and tours of the Sicily-based company. Since the 2017/2018 season she has been a member of the ballet company of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, where she has danced in works by Karl Alfred Schreiner, Ina Christel Johannessen, Ioannis Mandafounis, Rui Horta, Thomas Hauert, Micha Purucker, Emanuele Soavi, Eyal Dadon, Ivan Perez, Andonis Foniadakis, Felix Landerer, Lukas Timulak, Erna Òmarsdòttir, Marco Goecke, Marina Mascarell, Jerœn Verbruggen, Damien Jalet, Kat Valastur, Eisa Jocson, Michael Keegan-Dolan and Stijn Celis.

In both 2021 and 2022 she presented her own works as part of »Sparks«, the Gärtnerplatztheater’s programme for young choreographers. In 2022, she began a collaboration with the Franco-German Institute Aix-en-Provence for the performance »ADA« by the Munich open-media artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski.