Burbiculo / Florianne Philippe-Beauchamp

Burbiculo/Florianne Philippe-Beauchamp (it/they) is a dancer, performer and somatic sex educator. It evolves in a multidisciplinary artistic environment and its practice is based on the study of the living body, with its transformations and its limits, which implies an interest in the potentialities of sensuality, desire, gender, madness and nightlife. Its work is presented as performances, immersive installations, dance pieces and videos.

Florianne was trained as a classical dancer for 8 years before exploring urban dances, which led it to learn dancehall and deepen its training in Jamaica. Growing up in the nightlife scene in Montreal, and later in Mexico City, had a lasting impact on their identity as a dancer. Their research led them to train as a somatic sex educator at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education (ISSSE, Victoria, Canada). Its educational work on embodied sensuality has an international outreach.

Florianne has collaborated the Cabañas Museum, the Ceremonia Festival, the Centro Cultural del Bosque, the Centro Cultural España in Mexico, the Centro de la Imagen, the Traición collective, El Arenero and Espacio Sin Nombre (Mexico), the Pervers/cité festival (Canada), and the University of Fine Arts in Münster (Germany). They were artist Zemmoa’s choreographer and dancer, with whom they danced at the Zócalo, the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, and the Museo Universidad del Chopo. They worked with choreographer César Brodermann and his company Aterno, with whom they danced at Conjunto Santander and Danza UNAM, and during Mexico City Art Week. Florianne’s performance SANGUAZA was nominated for Best Art Work of the Year 2022 by Obras de Arte Comentadas. They received a Canada Council for the Arts grant in 2023.