antoine effroy

After his ballet training in Toulon and Monaco (1981-84) and at the Conservatoire National d’Avignon (1984-87), Antoine Effroy completed his professional dance training at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers (C.N.D.C.) in 1988.

From 1988 to 1997, he worked as a dancer in numerous independent productions in Paris and toured both locally and internationally with Jean-François Duroure (1988-1990), Isabelle Dubouloz (1990), Pierre Doussaint (1990-1993), and Jacques Patarozzi. After Felix Ruckert’s HAUTNAH project in 1997, he relocated to Berlin and, two years later, settled in Hamburg, where he developed his own projects in collaboration with Anne Rudelbach at Kampnagel (1998-2009). Simultaneously, he continued to participate in dance and theatre productions at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus with Jan Lauwers, in Brussels and Paris with Carlotta Sagna, at Kampnagel with Jochen Roller, Jenny Beyer, Philipp Baumgarten, and in Flensburg with the Pilkentafel Werkstatt Theatre. From 2008 to 2018, he taught body improvisation at Schauspiel-Studio Frese and provided professional training at K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg.

He was an active member of the Hamburg dance and performance scene from 2000 to 2018 and was involved in collaborative projects such as SURVIVING DANCE and LUKAS (2011), as well as the collaborative platform TREFFEN TOTAL (2010, 2016, and 2018). He also produced projects at the music club Fundbureau together with video pioneer Claudia Liekam and In Situ theatre and performance director Liz Rech (FALL, 2011) and under the label BASSEDANSE PROJECT at the legendary Mojo Club (IS, 2013; ÜBERSEEBAR 2015; NEARLY THERE 2015). From 2012 to 2018, he collaborated regularly with the kainkollektiv in Mülheim an der Ruhr (NRW) and participated in numerous productions in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin, Yaoundé, and Douala (Cameroon).

Together with performer and director David Guy Kono, he developed the performative research TCHĂ‘ . SOL. BODEN (Favoriten18, Dortmund) and the piece MÉTAMORPHOSE (David Guy Kono, Favoriten20 Dortmund, Schauspiel Dortmund 2022).

He teaches physical theatre and improvisation to actors in Vienna. Since 2018, he has been touring with the international production of music theatre director Heiner Goebbels‘ EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AND WOULD HAPPEN, which premiered in Manchester at MIF 2018 and has been performed at the Ruhrtriennale 19, in New York, St. Petersburg, the Wiener Festwochen, Budapest, the Salzburger Festspiele 2024, Taipei, and Paris (2025). Recently, he was seen in SHARED LANDSCAPE by Caroline Barneaud / Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) / Émilie Rousset at Tangente St. Pölten. He received a scholarship for dance and performance in 2021 from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media, and Sport. In 2024, he will be a scholarship holder of the City of Vienna | Culture for his research „Gang – Gehen als Relation.“ Since 2024, he has been part of the workplace Arbeitsplatz in Vienna-Floridsdorf.