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Eugénie Pastor is an artist, performer, musician and theatre-maker, based in London and originally from France.
She is an Associate Artist of Little Bulb, which she joined in 2009, co-devising and performing in many of the company’s award-winning shows, including: Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy with Royal Opera House, The Future, Orpheus, Operation Greenfield, and most of Little Bulb’s cabaret and band incarnations. Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy won the Olivier Award for Best Family Show in April 2022.
With Shamira Turner in 2014, she created She Goat, a Franglais performance duo blurring the lines of theatre and live music, truth and invention, with radical co-operation. She Goat's work is accessible to visually impaired audiences through innovative audio-description that works as an artistic language. She Goat create and perform visually haunting, sonically rich, intimate performance artworks, inspired by historic aesthetics and rooted in personal experience.
Pastor also works as a solo maker and performer, like for her one-to-one performance installation Pube (2015), which explores our relationship with pubic hair through the making of a ‘hair portrait’.
Pastor’s work has toured the UK and internationally, to critical acclaim, and has been shown at venues and festivals including: Soho Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, National Theatre, Millenium Centre Cardiff, Salzburg Festival, Brisbane International Festival, Southbank Centre, Bristol Old Vic, Royal Opera House, among others. Her work has been reviewed or featured in The Times, The Guardian, Time Out, The Wire and the BBC.
She has a PhD in Drama and Theatre Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, with a thesis titled ‘Moving Intimacies: A Comparative Study of Physical Theatres in France and the UK’, graduating in 2014.
Her academic research focuses on intimacy and care in one-on-one performance, ‘idiosyncratic virtuosity’, collaborative performance-making, gig theatre, DIY and low-fi repurposing of technology, and digital and online performance-making strategies.
Pastor has published several pieces on her practice-based research, the latest on her collaborative work in She Goat in Love and the Politics of Care (Bloomsbury, 2022), and on collaboration within Little Bulb for Time and Performer Training (Routledge, 2019). She has published chapters in English and French-speaking publications and acted as editor for a book on artists’ manifestos.
She has spoken at conferences and symposia and delivered guest lectures. She acted as second supervisor on 2 practice-based PhD programmes at London South Bank University, 1 in Music and one in Performance, leading 1 to completion in November 2021.
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