Through Marylene Iapichino
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Aurelie Garcia the big to Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes) where she did all her education up to high school. It was even there that she took her first dance steps, in the city’s dance school.
Her mother herself passionate about the discipline, Aurélie therefore followed her entrechats, plunging deeply into this vocation.
Between various shows, she also participates in competitions and won some such as the international classical dance competition of Toulon (Var) in 2011, the Hip Hop Starlight dance competition at Monaco in 2014 and the European dance competition at the opera of Massy (Essonne), in modern jazz, in 2015. Aurélie’s strength: her versatility, she dances everything.
Nowadays, you have to know how to dance several styles.
Departure for New-York
Very quickly, she was spotted by a professional dancer, Julie Magneville, who encouraged him to apply for the dance school of an American company: The Ailey School. Once her scientific baccalaureate in hand – her plan B being to go to studies to become a physiotherapist – she passes the audition and join the school.
“Three days after I turned 18, I was on a plane to New York,” she describes. She was only to stay there for a year, but she managed to drop out a merit scholarship allowing him to continue for two more years.
“Today, I work as a professional dancer in the United States with an artist visa mainly with the company Momix, Connecticut. She even makes tours that are gradually resuming outside the United States with the reopening of borders.
An involuntary break linked to Covid
She was just on tour in Italy when everything stopped, in 2020: “we were repatriated to the United States and, until July 2021, I had no work in the entertainment world. ”
So, like many artists, she reinvented herself, offering performances online and through video projects. “I had to continue to feel like an artist, so that I wasn’t so far from my family for nothing,” she explains.
When asked about her best memory as a dancer, you can sense that the pandemic marked her: “My very first dance in front of an audience after the Covid19. It was on the Flatiron Building in New York, outdoors, free. It had been raining all day and a ray of sunshine broke through the clouds just as we were doing our dance. It was great to see so many passers-by stopping to look at us, especially in this city where people are in a hurry. It was really beautiful and we were very moved. ”
The second is the first return to the stage, at Dallas : “The audience stood up, some were crying, it was touching to find this connection again. For her, this is the sign “that everyone needed art to come back”.
During this period of confinement, she lived odd jobs. Already, in her dance school, she worked a little in administration, life in New York being very expensive.
She also gives lessons: “during the Covid-19, I prepared a student, a little boy of seven, to enter a dance school. “He succeeded,” it’s nice to see him motivated and evolve like this. He will now be able to share the dance with other children and no longer alone in his room ”. Teaching is surely what she would like to strive for with this dream of setting up his own dance school one day.
The lack of the Côte d’Azur
For now, she can’t wait to finally reunite with her family at Christmas. She hasn’t seen them since November 2019.
The dancer was delighted to be able to see them at Aix en Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) in this month of November and to finally dance in front of them, but the date has been canceled. “All my family had to come with my friends,” she says, disappointed.
In the meantime, she is delighted with each package that is sent to her, loaded with food, to cope with the sometimes difficult American diet for a young woman who grew up in France.
The most problematic is the bread. I really miss that.
Coming to New York was a huge change: “in Grasse, we did everything by car. Here I travel by metro and I am very speed, always busy. »But what he misses the most is the sun and its heat. “It is already only 1 ° C and it is not even December yet”, she describes to us.
“When you’re far away, you really realize how lucky you are on the Côte d’Azur, with the sea and the mountains within reach. ”
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