My quest
The Mystery of Being Alive
From theatre to Feldenkrais — one question, followed down two paths.
The living
One question has followed me forever: what is it to be alive? How does it work? How could it work even better? I pursue this search in two fields at once: my life and the theatre. On stage, it's self-evident for an actor — how to be as alive as possible? But in life too, if that even means anything, how to be more alive still than we already are?
The theatre
In my theatre work, this search began with the body. A theatre of gesture and mask — physical, popular, joyfully carnal. It was in those early years that I first heard of Moshe Feldenkrais. Then, little by little, my search shifted toward a theatre of an entirely different nature — more psychological, grounded in the movements of the soul. What might look like a break is not one: it is the same search, through another door — the search for the living, on stage.
Feldenkrais
Feldenkrais is that same search in life: how to act, through movement, on the whole human beings that we are. I trained with Myriam Pfeffer, one of Moshe Feldenkrais's first thirteen students, and was certified in 2012. I continue to train with her daughter, Sabine Pfeffer, today one of the most respected trainers in the world. Since 2024, I have been an assistant trainer, and I host in Paris the new training programme she directs. Like Feldenkrais — engineer, physicist and a pioneer of judo in France — I bring together two legacies: a solid scientific training (engineering, mathematics) and an organic, sensitive practice, born on the stage.
The Balagan'
"Balagan'" has followed me all my life. For Meyerhold, it is the theatre of the fairground stage — popular, carnival, joyfully physical. In Hebrew, it means disorder, joyful chaos — and Feldenkrais liked to say his method puts a little order back into ours. The word holds my two sides together. It is also the name of the place I built with my own hands, just outside Paris: a place to live and to work, wholly devoted to a single search — the mystery of being alive.