The desire to share a unique experience with a tree gives rise to a cycle of songs – songs in many forms: sung, shouted, danced. Deep Cuts can be seen as a kind of pastoral, a bucolic form that came back into fashion during the Romantic era, when the Industrial Revolution was already raising urgent questions about resource exploitation. Presented here in concert form, this 21st-century pastoral offers a reflection on our responsibility and our connection to ecosystems.
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Biography

Bryan Campbell is an American artist living and working in Paris. Since 2008, his work has blended choreography, text, singing, and imagery. He studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, then joined the ex.e.r.ce master’s program in 2009/2010 under the direction of Mathilde Monnier at ICI CCN Montpellier. He received research grants from the NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal in 2011 (for a project on the work of Dieter Roth) and from DanceWEB in 2013. His pieces (MARVELOUS, 2015; SQUARE DANCE, 2019; Janitor of Lunacy: a Filibuster, 2021 — recipient of the Beaumarchais Prize from the SACD in theatre; Deep Cuts, 2023; Submersion Games, 2025) address social relations, codes of power and ecocidal violence, and performance — ranging from fashion-magazine aesthetics to the musical, in the form of a BDSM session.

Bryan Campbell is also a performer (Loïc Touzé, Emmanuelle Huynh, Marco Berrettini, etc.), an outside artistic eye (Jacob Peter Kovner, Ruth Childs, etc.), and a teacher (master’s program).