Aoza is a production agency specialized in contemporary dance, run by Aline Berthou and Marion Cachan. Divided in two offices (between Brest and Rennes), Aoza developps a made-to-measure support for artistic projects for production and administration. It can also offer services for distribution and communication. Aoza stands for horizontal relationships and long-term collaborations.
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Marion Cachan and Aline Berthou decided to join forces to share tools, skills and thinkings.
Within Aoza, Marion collaborates with: Betty Tchomanga, Gaël Sesboüé, Marzena Krzeminska and Simon Tanguy
Marion Cachan
Marion was born in 1991. She lives and works in Rennes.
After studying theatre at Rennes 2 University, she specialized in production and graduated with a Master degree “Management du spectacle vivant” at UBO University in Brest.
Between 2013 and 2015, she worked for Le Fils du grand réseau – Pierre Guillois.
From 2015, Marion decidated herself to supporting choreographers and collaborates since then with Simon Tanguy, Marzena Krzeminska, Gaël Sesboüé and Betty Tchomanga.
Besides her work, she is involved in HF Bretagne and LAPAS (association des professionnels de l’administration du spectacle/ organization for performing arts producers). She sits at the orientation counsel of Spectacle Vivant en Bretagne as representative of GTEA, performing arts producers group of Bretagne.
Aline is currently on maternity leave.
Aline Berthou
Aline was born in 1991. She lives and works from Brest.
After studying Literature in Brest, Rennes and Dublin, she studied theatre at l’Institut d’étude théâtral at Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle University to specialize in production.
She worked at Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil (direction Mathieu Bauer) and at T2G – Centre dramatique national de création contemporaine (direction Pascal Rambert)
She left Paris for Brest and started to collaborate with choregraphers. She worked with Aurélien Richard (2015-2017), Jody Etienne (2016-2019), Henrique Furtado (2016-2020), Aloun Marchal (2016-2020 ), Flora Détraz (2017-2022), Marie-Laure Caradec (2017 – ), Joachim Maudet (2020-2022) and Mathilde Bonicel (2022 – ).
Besides her work, she participated to à Domicile – autour de la danse contemporaine residencies in Guissény, the village where she grew up.
Board
Aoza is a French organization (loi 1901) and to its board sit :
President : Cécile Valembois • Vice-president : Alice Montagné •
Treasurer : Florence Verney • Secretary : Laurie Hagimont
Aoza joins HF Bretagne values and supports actions in favor of equality in Arts. Aoza participates to the actions lead by LAPAS (l’Association des Professionnels de l’Administration du Spectacle/organization for performing arts producers).