Mirorim
Mirorim | 2025
Dancers: Ludmila Gilles, Thea Bautista
Choreographer: Thea Bautista
Music: Emilio Meneses Garcia
Length: 20 minutes
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Mirorim is a duet for two dancers that explores our perception of the Other and of ourselves—how those around us can embody both a mirror and a form of otherness. Themes of rejection, acceptance, curiosity, and mistrust lie at the heart of this exploration. The dancers' bodies move through space, crossing paths, confronting one another, observing and gradually taming each other, in a process of mutual discovery where movement becomes language.
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Mirorim est un duo pour deux danseurs qui interroge la perception que nous avons de l’Autre et de nous même, comment les individus qui nous entourent, symbolisent à la fois reflet et altérité. Les thèmes du rejet, de l’acceptation, de la curiosité, de la méfiance sont au cœur de cette recherche. Ainsi, les corps évoluent dans l’espace, se croisent, s’affrontent, s’observent et s’apprivoisent, dans un processus de découverte mutuelle où le mouvement devient langage.
Artistic Team
Choreographer & Dancer
Thea Bautista
Théa Bautista is a Franco-Mexican-American choreographer and dancer, and the founder of Althea Dance Company. Trained in Paris and New York, she has worked with artists and companies such as Damien Jalet, Giuliano Peparini, Compagnie R2, and Azul Dance Theater, performing internationally across France, the U.S., Mexico, and the U.K.
Her choreographic language blends fluid contemporary movement with physical intensity, exploring themes of identity, vulnerability, and self-perception. Deeply influenced by her multicultural background, Théa collaborates across disciplines, creating projects with visual artists, writers, and musicians. Notable performances and commissions include work at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), La MaMa Theater (New York), The Place (London), and the Cité internationale des arts.
Théa’s work invites audiences into poetic, sometimes uneasy spaces where movement becomes a mirror for inner landscapes—bringing to light what is often left unspoken through the expressive language of the body.
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Music
Emilio Meneses Garcia
Emilio Meneses García is a Mexican composer, producer, and sound designer based in Paris. A lifelong music enthusiast, he draws from a wide range of influences to create innovative and deeply emotional soundscapes. He composes original scores for films, produces music for advertising, and collaborates on international projects.
Committed to the art of storytelling through sound, Emilio continually seeks to innovate and connect with his audience. Among his recent projects, he contributed to the production of “ALV,” a song composed by Ximena Sariñana, Alejandro Jiménez, and Carla Morrison. He also worked on sound design, mixing, and music for a short film directed by Argentine filmmaker Nicanor Montes, inspired by a text by Julio Cortázar, in which he crafted an immersive auditory experience to enhance the visual narrative.
Dancer
Ludmila Gilles
Ludmila is a French dancer and choreographer. After completing her training at Rambert School in London, she joined the company Verve where she graduated with a Masters in contemporary dance performance with distinctions. Over the past couple of years, she had the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers such as Botis Seva, Caroline Finn, Barnaby Booth and others. In addition, she started to create her own works to explore her visions on dance and movement in general. She sees dance as an anchor to the present moment, as our bodies are constantly fed by memories and experiences. In that sense, she is interested in dance as a tool to connect, express and share, as an opening to an infinite palette of emotions. When she creates or performs, she explores rawness and vulnerability as a path to thoroughness and power.