Author, Stage director, artistic director of company 111. After studies in physics, Aurélien Bory worked in the field of architectural acoustics before dedicating himself to theatre arts. He has been the director of compagnie 111, located in Toulouse, since 2000, which employs a large number of collaborators. He develops a physical and scenographic theatre – using space and the body – and creates multi-faceted works crossing boundaries between various disciplines – circus, dance, theatre, music. Aurélien Bory initiates a number of collaborations with artists from diverse backgrounds: from Plan B, famed for the collaboration with the New-Yorker Phil Soltanoff, to Je me souviens Le Ciel est loin la terre aussi (I remember Heaven is far away the Earth as well, 2019) created with Mladen Materic, not to mention Espæce (2016) shown at the 70th Avignon Festival or even aSH (2018) created at the Montpellier Dance festival for the dancer Shantala Shivaligappa, Compagnie 111 now has a repertoire of eighteen shows, presented all over the world. More recently, Aurélien Bory did the stage direction and scenography for La disparition du paysage (The disappearance of the landscape), a new text by Jean-Philippe Toussaint personified by Denis Podalydès from autumn 2021 in Paris. His latest show, invisibili, premiered in Palermo in October 2023.
The remarkable care that Aurélien Bory takes over the scenography can also be seen in the sets he designs, which are often connected to a space, like in Spectacula produced in 2015 for the Théâtre Graslin in Nantes, TROBO in 2019 for the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, and Garonne in 2020 for the Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse. Aurélien Bory also stages operas. Orpheus and Eurydice in 2018, Parsifal in 2020 and Dafne in 2022 are his most recent productions.
