BIOGRAPHY

Audrey Merilus is a French artist of Haitian descent based between Brussels and Paris.

She studied at the Conservatoire Régional de Paris (CRR) and continued her training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (CNSMDL), before obtaining her bachelor’s degree in dance from the Training Cycle at P.A.R.T.S.

She has worked with various international productions and artists, including: Gisèle Vienne, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Florentina Holzinger, Maud le Pladec, Michiel Vandevelde, and Rosas for the revival of Drumming.

As an extension of her artistic journey, Audrey’s evolving practice has extended into curation. For the tenth edition of Radiant Nights at DeSingel (Antwerp), she was invited as a guest curator and initiated the itinerant project Collective Memories (2023), a program in which she invited several artists to share their work during two evenings composed of performances, literature, visual arts, textiles, and sound. In December 2025 she hosted the second edition in Atelier 210 (Brussels).

Recently, she has taken on the role of dramaturg for Stanley Ollivier’s last work Spine of Desire: Wounds Without Tears, Out of One Skin in Diamonds andShit (2025). She joined CROWD by Gisèle Vienne, and will perform in her forthcoming creation, which will premiere in December 2026.

After a series of collaborations with the Viennese artist Florentina Holzinger (A Divine Comedy, Festzug, Étude for Disappearing, Étude for Extinction), she is now joining her for a new project presented in the frame of the 2026 Biennale di Venezia, at the Austrian Pavilion.

Beyond her commitment to various artists, she begins her first choreographic project with Moved by the Memories of Affects.

GUEST TEACHER

2025

Ballet de Lorraine, Centre Chorégraphique National (CCN)

2024

CNDC d’Angers

2023

Institut Français de Milan, Teatro Elfo Puccini

Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours (CCNT )

Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne

Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans (CCNO)