Jean-Philippe Derail
choregraphic artist - performer - video artist
Following an education in dance, theatre, and film studies, he develops a genre at the meeting-point of these artistic universes through creation of hybrid forms. He superimposes references and opposing concepts to synthesize a new and complex whole.
He works with the relationship between dance and cinema. He is concerned with how to use the camera's frame and point of view choreographically and how the tools of cinema might be used to create a choreography.
He looks for a dance that rubs up against limits, destabilizing forces and contradictions, and approaches impossible movement.
His choreography works in absurdity, disjuncture and mockery. He works in a state of urgency to give priority to raw and unpremeditated expression.

From 1993 to 2001 he is a full-time performer with Groupe Kraft, a company developing a physical contemporary theatre. He directs his first pieces : du côté rouge (on the red side), les lampions (the lanterns) et sans-titre(s) (untitled(s)), inspired by the American photographer Diane Arbus.
In 2004, he is a dancer-interpreter with the company Autre Mi Na/Mitia Fedotenko. He also works with Sandrine Sauron in the creation of the collective PoPLiTé and conceives the triptych choreographic project which forms the basis for a photographic study.
In 2005 he becomes part of the research group founded by Anne Lopez and works with the group as a dancer-interpreter in De L’avant Invariablement (From the Front, Invariably) – the performance version (2006), Idiots mais Rusés (Cunning Idiots), (2007), La Menace (The Threat), (2008) and Duel – a creation by Les gens du quai company 2009.
After creating dehors (outside) – a piece for performance in public spaces – he directs slapsticks, a series of choreographic short films, and Do It Yourself, a sound and choreography performance based on the roots of the punk movement and created with François Lopez. He begins, in 2009, a project that will continue to develop over the next few years : Onirique Sursaut (Dreamlike Startle), constructed around 50's Hollywood musicals. In 2010, he participates in module #2 of Ex.e.r.ce at the National Choreographic Center of Montpellier, taking part in the creation of the musical review Puttin' On a Show directed by Mark Tompkins, in collaboration with Gilles Toutevoix, Frans Poelstra and Robert Steijn. He also works with the photographer Denis Darzacq on the project Hyper. In 2011, he directs ROAD MOVIE, a film in seven stages.

In 2006 he creates POST.