Innocentia inviolata / Céline Nogueira
INNOCENTIA INVIOLATA’s artistic work is hybrid. Pregnant with the ecclectic spirit of artistic director Céline Nogueira, we focus on blurring boundaries between high & pop culture, artists & non artists, actors & spectators while questioning the human condition and our contemporary world.
With the belief that our voice matters, Innocentia Inviolata explores through transdiciplinary theatre, the phenomenology of the body under crisis, feminine desires, equality between women and men, and addresses deep social and political topics of identity, territories, powers and self metamorphosis processes.
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Céline Nogueira is a French pluridisciplinary artist, founder of the theatre company Innocentia Inviolata established in Toulouse since 2003. She is a theatre director, dramaturg, author, actor, dancer, singer, acting coach and French–English translator, as well as a certified teacher of Hatha Vinyasa Yoga and Pranayama.
For over twenty years, she has dedicated herself to creation and to the direction of performers in theatre, dance and film, while accompanying companies’ and educational institutions’ projects. She has contributed to nearly fifty theatre and choreographic works in France and abroad.
Bilingual in English and French and of Portuguese origin, she nurtures a taste for the transgression of boarders with the belief that mobility is vector of emancipation- strong motto which lies at the core of her artistic research and experiences.
At the intersection of creation, pedagogy and research, she develops an artistic practice she conceives as a space for individual and collective emancipation. Her work explores the processes of embodiment (incarnation) and metamorphosis through the contradictions of the self, the feminine condition, a phenomenology of the body in crisis, and a personal dramaturgy of fragmentation and rupture.
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Céline Nogueira has been forging a transdisciplinary signature in which creation, writing and transmission all concur to an emancipatory endeavor. For over a decade, she has been deeply engaged in the prevention of sexual violence and harassment, and has created, with the continuous support of the City of Toulouse and the DRAC Occitanie, My body, my territory!, an original educational programme in schools that has since been labelled “exemplary” in the fight against discrimination.
Alongside her work in applied theatre in educational and corporate contexts – developing eloquence and modes of knowledge transmission – she has developed a creative coaching methodology that is conceived as an Art of Emancipation for all audiences. In this light, she conceives and leads participatory and immersive conferences and seminars in both French and English around key societal issues such as leadership, empathy, consent, coercitive relations, within professional training and research contexts (Thales Alenia Space, ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse Business School, HEC Paris, Université fédérale Toulouse).
In 2023, she was named European Artist 2023 by the European network Stronger Peripheries, which highlights artists working at the intersection of disciplines and territories, and experimenting new modes of artistic actions.