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Hugo Le Brigand explores dance as a platform for creative encounters and collaboration with a diverse range of artists, including Doris Uhlich, Alix Eynaudi, Sebastiano Sing, Daniela Georgieva, Ulduz Ahmadzadeh, and Ari Benjamin Meyers. Since 2014, he has been a regular collaborator with Doris Uhlich, contributing as a performer, coach, and rehearsal director across various projects. His work with Alix Eynaudi began with the choreographic piece BRUNO and continues with her latest work, Death By Landscape, a concert. Hugo also performs with Tanztheater Sing in the piece MATHIEU and is slated to appear in the company’s upcoming production, MILAN.
Hugo's collaboration with Daniela Georgieva includes performances in works such as destination_paradise, blank memory of absence, FLUSCIA, and their duet 270206. In 2023, Ulduz Ahmadzadeh invited Hugo to join the tour of TARAB, and in 2024, he worked with Ari Benjamin Meyers on his large-scale performance Nation of Sleep at the Steirischer Herbst festival.
Hugo's career has taken him to international stages and festivals, including Festival Santiago a Mil in Chile (2018), the Seoul Street Art Festival in South Korea (2019), the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna (2017), and Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales in Paris (2017).
Alongside his dancing career, Hugo teaches contemporary dance at Public Moves by ImPulsTanz, RAUM für TANZ Vienna (more here) , and TanzQuartier Wien.
Hugo Le Brigand studied at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, UK, and the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria. He also holds a bachelor's degree in history from Rennes II University, France. In the summer of 2017, he was selected for danceWEB: the scholarship program for dancers and emerging choreographers at ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna. In 2018, he received the START scholarship for Music and Performing Arts from the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office. Most recently, in 2023, he was awarded the TanzQuartier Wien scholarships for Body & Performance Practices, and in 2025, he received the City of Vienna's Scholarship for Performing Arts - Performance.