The MOV’IN Cannes 2025 jury | Festival de Danse

Marion Barbeau

Chairwoman

French dancer and actress

Marion Barbeau began dancing at the age of 6. After a year at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, she joined the Paris Opera Ballet School in 2002. In 2008, she joined the Paris Opera Ballet, where she quickly rose through the ranks: Coryphée in 2013, Sujet in 2016 and then Première Danseuse in 2019. That same year, she co-founded the Alt.Take dance company with Simon Le Borgne, also a dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet. Her notable roles include Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Olga in Onegin and Marie in Iolanta-The Nutcracker. She has worked with
renowned choreographers such as Benjamin Millepied, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Hofesh Shechter and Alexander Ekman. Marion Barbeau also starred in Cédric Klapisch’s 2022 film En corps. Her performance earned her César and Lumières nominations for Most Promising Actress. She has appeared in music videos, notably Oxmo Puccino’s Tendrement and Hania Rani’s Soleil pâle. Marion Barbeau left the Paris Opera Ballet in 2024. Passionate about her art, she continues to combine classical dance, contemporary creations and cinema, embodying a major figure in contemporary French dance.

Nancy Berthier

Director of Casa de Velázquez

Nancy Berthier is a historian, professor at Sorbonne University and director of Casa de Velázquez since 2022 – the first woman to hold this position since 1928. A specialist in visual arts in the Hispanic and Ibero-American worlds, she explores the relationships between cinema, history and political memory, with a keen interest in Francoist propaganda, the Cuban revolution, political charisma and urban representations. A former student of ENS Ulm and a certified Spanish teacher, she defended a pioneering thesis on Francoist cinema in 1994. She then taught at Paris VIII, Marne-la-Vallée, and then at Sorbonne University, where she heads the Institute of Hispanic Studies and the CRIMIC team. An active member of GRIMH, she campaigns for the recognition of visual arts as a field of research. Her numerous publications are marked by an interdisciplinary approach, at the crossroads of politics, culture and aesthetics. Among her works are Le franquisme et son image, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, La muerte de Franco en la pantalla, and Los memes.

Laure Cayla

Director of the Cannes Bastide Rouge business park and production studios

Laure Cayla has been managing the Cannes Bastide Rouge business park and production studios within an innovation hub dedicated to the audiovisual sector since it opened in Cannes in 2021. Drawing on her experience as an engineer, artist and manager of public institutions, she and her team contribute to the development of the cultural and creative industries. Within this unique creative hub, which brings together 1,200 students and numerous professionals, entrepreneurs and projects are supported in their endeavours, with the provision of workspaces, production and post-production studios. With more than 20 expert partners, Laure and her team support business development by guiding entrepreneurs in their search for funding and providing mentoring for business leaders. Through a programme of around 100 meetings, workshops and events per year, she helps to forge links between entrepreneurs, students and teachers/researchers in order to promote development and creativity.

José Montalvo

Choreographer, video artist, stage director, set designer

Choreographer, video artist, director and set designer, José Montalvo has created some thirty works, sometimes in duo with Dominique Hervieu, sometimes on his own. With a flamenco-dancing mother who took him to see musicals over and over again, the young man was fascinated by the language of the body from an early age. Yet it was to art history and the visual arts that he turned when he entered university. His professional dance training began in parallel with his studies, with the American Jerome Andrews and Françoise and Dominique Dupuy. In addition, he perfected his skills in workshops led by such great names as Lucinda Childs, Carolyn Carlson, Alwin Nikolais and Merce Cunningham.

His professional career began in the late 1970s, first as a dancer with the Ballets Modernes de Paris, then as a choreographer in 1986. It was at a Peter Goss class that he met Dominique Hervieu, who quickly became the dancer of choice for his shows and a key artistic partner. From then on, the two dancers worked together, founding their own company in 1998, soberly named compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu. Together, they developed a particular gestural style to create original choreographies, in a body language all their own.

From piece to piece, their choreographic writing is characterized by a remarkable blend of dance styles and digital technologies. She superimposes the living and the virtual, reality and imagination, the traditional stage and video projections, with a pronounced taste for collage, crossbreeding and the hybridization of genres and imaginations.

Winner of the most prestigious awards in contemporary dance since 1986, José Montalvo was in turn director of the CCN de Créteil, artistic director of the Théâtre national de Chaillot and finally director of the Maison des arts et de la culture de Créteil Grand – Grand Paris Sud Est Avenir. From September 2016 to December 2024, José Montalvo directed the Maison des Arts de Créteil – Grand Paris Sud Est Avenir, developing an artistic project rooted in the values of aesthetic cross-fertilization, redoubled dialogue between forms, and broad openness to new contemporary writing. Today, he devotes himself exclusively to his original passion, choreographic creation.

Cynthia Odier

Director of the Fluxum Foundation

Cynthia Odier, a Swiss of Greek origin, trained in classical dance at the Geneva Conservatory, before joining the ballet company of the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In 2000, she proposed a reconstruction of the ballet La Création du Monde in collaboration with the Grand Théâtre and the ensemble Contrechamps. This project was presented in the courtyard of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève, and marked the entry of dance into the museum space in Geneva.

In 2002, Cynthia Odier created the Fluxum Foundation and in 2003 the Flux Laboratory in Geneva. An artistic incubator, Flux Laboratory’s mission is to encourage innovative collaborative dynamics through experimental, transdisciplinary artistic projects. This was followed by an opening in Zurich in 2013 and the creation of the Flux Box in 2014: an itinerant concept space which, in addition to presenting the archives, offers performances in synergy with the venues that host it. In 2016, Flux Laboratory moved to Athens. Under the aegis of the Swiss Embassy in Greece and the Greek Ministry of Culture, it supports and produces Greek artists.

On December 6, 2021, Cynthia Odier was awarded the title of Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. For many years, Cynthia Odier has been involved in various foundations and boards of directors: Le Prix de Lausanne, Des cinémas pour l’Afrique, No Difference, SOS Enfants, FIFDH, Opéra Lab. She is also a UNESCO ambassador for dance. More recently, Cynthia Odier was invited to join the Program Committee of the Pôle de création numérique.

Sjón

Poet, novelist, lyricist for Björk and screenwriter

Born in Reykjavík in 1962, Sjón is an internationally renowned Icelandic author of novels, poetry, librettos and screenplays. His novels, such as The Blue Fox, have been translated into 40 languages and have received literary awards and nominations around the world.

Also working in film, he wrote the screenplay for the Icelandic film Lamb, which was presented in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ selection at Cannes in 2021 and received the Special Jury Prize. His screenplay for The Northman, which premiered worldwide in 2022, was co-written with director Robert Eggers. He was nominated for an Oscar in 2001 for writing the lyrics to the songs performed by Björk in Lars von Trier’s musical drama Dancer in the Dark.

In 2017, Sjón became the third writer – after Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell – to contribute to Future Library, a public art project based in Norway spanning 100 years. In 2023, he received the Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize, the academy’s second highest award after the Nobel Prize. He was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2021 for his contribution to literature, film and songwriting.