DANCE WITH TOPOS

Meet DANCE WITH TOPOS

“An artistic approach that reveals the hidden faces of landscape through dance and photography”

📅 Saturday, May 16, 2026
7:00 PM — Artist Talk and Film Screening

📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026
5:00 PM — Workshop

🔞 Age restriction: 16+

Artist Talk and Film Screening

Creative imagination for conscious dialogue with the environment

During this interactive artist talk, the three artists of the collective will share how their Dance with Topos approach helped them connect with landscape as a source of creative intelligence. They will speak about the process through which they moved beyond the rational perception shaped by civilization and entered a deeper and richer perception of reality.

DANCE WITH TOPOS

The film Dance with Topos follows a dancer exploring different landscapes. Moving from place to place, he develops a special ability to listen and allows the environment — atmosphere, elements, forces, materials, colors, and light — to receive him. This “living language” becomes his partner, and through movement, the body enters into dialogue with the many faces of the Earth.

Workshop

Movement as a bridge between inner and outer landscapes

Movement already exists in every landscape — visibly or invisibly. Space is filled with different dynamics that the dancer learns to perceive, then absorb internally, and finally express through sensitive gesture.

(Open to everyone, no dance experience required)

Tickets:

• Artist Talk + Film Screening (May 16) — 20 GEL
• Workshop (3 hours) (May 17) — 60 GEL
• Weekend Pass (May 16–17) — 70 GEL

Dancewithtopos Collective

Matthieu — Photographer and Musician
Jonathan Rousselle — Movement Artist and Co-Founder of SERAKI Theatre
Guillaume Rousselle — Photographer and Firefighter

Biographies

Matthieu is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Geneva. He has created music for various multimedia projects, collaborated with visual artists and dancers, and developed stage installations and video works for his own projects. In recent years, he has incorporated photography into his practice and held several solo exhibitions exploring themes such as portraits of natural elements and the presence of the human figure in nature.

Jonathan Rousselle is an actor-dancer working in various theaters in Tbilisi. In 2025, he founded SERAKI Theatre, where he creates original performances with his team. He also leads workshops on creativity through movement, though his art is most fully expressed when he attempts to communicate with landscape.

Guillaume Rousselle is passionate about photography. He loves traveling the world with an analog camera and has held two exhibitions focused on travel photography. He is especially drawn to landscape photography and building connections with the subtle forces of nature. In 2020, he joined the professional fire department in Geneva. Combining his interest in video and amateur filmmaking experience, he joined the fire and rescue service media department in 2023, where he is responsible for filming at incident locations. Always searching for new journeys, he never misses the opportunity to discover new regions of the world and their cultures.