Rebecca Journo studied at the Trinity Laban Conservatory in London where she obtained a “BA” in contemporary dance in 2015. After her studies, she worked for various companies (KonzertTheater Bern (CH), Brokentalkers (IR), Tabea Martin (CH) and Michèle Murray (FR) among others). In 2018, she created her company La Pieuvre in collaboration with Véronique Lemonnier. Also accompanied by the sound creator Mathieu Bonnafous, their artistic approach is located at the edge of different mediums between dance, performance, music and photography. Within La Pieuvre, Rebecca Journo successively creates two solos that form a diptych, L'Épouse (2018) and La Ménagère (2019) based on female photographs. At the same time, she is working on the creation of a trio Whales (2020) which is fully inspired by the song of whales. Inspired by the photographic work of Véronique Lemonnier on the self-portrait, she signed a quartet Portrait (2022) who is very concretely interested in the link between movement and photography. The latest collective creation of the company, Les amours de la pieuvre (2024) is a performance that visits the erotic-horrific symbolism of the octopus in Japan. The project highlights the live sound crafting and pushes even further the inextricable link between musical and choreographic composition around which the collaboration between Rebecca Journo and Mathieu Bonnafous was built. In 2024, she also signed a solo Canicular which was commissioned by the SACD and the Avignon festival. The piece is a collaboration with the sound artist Diane Barbé and uses cicadas sound as a mean of transformation, a portrait of a sunbathing half woman half insect. In 2025, with Mathieu Bonnafous, they worked on a duet called Bruitage which takes interest in foley art in cinema, trying to go further in the synchronisation live between sound and gesture. Recently, she has also worked as an artistic advisor for Nicolas Fayol, Valentin Mériot, Tatiana Gueria Nade, Tom Grand Mourcel.
