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Jean-Baptiste is a performer and performance maker, and a practitioner of perceptive somatic-psychoeducation / method Danis Bois (FR). He conducts an amateur choir between Brussels and Paris, and has been the editorial co-coordinator of the review watt created by Charlotte Imbault.

After a long practice of singing and a first experience in movement through choir conducting, he started dancing when he was studying linguistics at the university. In 2003 he was part of the vocal ensemble that won the silver medal at the national competition of Florilège Vocal de Tours International Choral Competition (FR). In 2005 he became one of the first students of the 'Essais' program at Ecole Supérieure of CNDC in Angers (FR), directed by Emmanuelle Huynh. He was invited there to develop his own ideas on movement and staging. Thus he made chambre son, a choreographic and vocal piece for an a capella choir. In that frame he was an interpreter in many projects, such as My Country Music by Deborah Hay (US), of which he made a solo adaptation : acclimatation. During this course, he was also invited to give singing workshops to the students of the two-year training programme for professional dancers.

After ending his formation in Angers in 2006, he founded association la dépose and kept developing his work. He made a performance on breathing with vacuum cleaners, inspiratoire/aspiratoire. He kept researching on choirs in movement : with breathing choir, still considering breath as musical material (Porto, PT, 2008) ; with Singing with Nicaoax, working with a choir of children in Oaxaca in the framework of the international event "Prisma Forum" (Oax, MX, 2009) ; and with I've got you under my skin, project made in the frame of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture (Guimarães, PT, 2012). His interest for voice and language is also the root for animal animal, and sometimes pushes him out of performative formats, as for Déports.
He also took part in collective works, such as Tout Court, on invitation by Tommy Noonan at Stadttheater in Freiburg (DE, 2008), and Five People at Campo in Ghent (BE, 2009) on invitation by Dirk Pauwels.

As a dance and/or vocal performer he has worked with Myriam van Imschoot (BE), Martine Pisani (FR), Pascale Murtin / Grand Magasin (FR), Pauline Brun (FR/BE), Robert Steijn & Frans Poelstra (NL/AT), Begüm Erciyas (TR/DE), Dennis Deter (DE), Daniel Larrieu (FR), Yannick Guédon (FR/BE), Ivana Müller (HR/FR)... He has been an assistant on works by Daniel Larrieu (FR) and Dery Fazio (MX/FR).
He has also been invited to direct or accompany the vocal experimentations on projects by Mylène Benoît (FR), Nina Santes (FR), Nina Santes & Celia Gondol (FR), Rémy Héritier (FR), Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh / Centre chorégraphique national du Havre (FR)...
He collaborated with film makers such as Alain Escalle and Jonathan Desoindre (FR), and with visual artists like Lizzie Scott (US) and Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger (CH/BE) for their first exhibition in Paris. Gwen van den Eijnde (FR) invited him several times to choreograph and spacialize the presentation of his textile works.

In 2007 he takes part in the constitution of the network Sweet & Tender collaborations, whose philosophy then modified, and still nourishes significantly his approach of art-making.

In 2010 he was awarded the danceWEB scholarship to attend the ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna (AT). In 2013 he was selected to be part of the French delegation participating in Rencontres internationales des jeunes créateurs et critiques des arts de la scène in the frame of FTA / Festival Transamériques in Montreal (CA). In 2021 he got a master's degree in philosophy at Paris X - Nanterre university.