My name is Estelle Souche, and I'm a 27 years old French student. I used to live in Grenoble, then in Lyon (where I studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and where I started making these pages), then in Marseille, in the south of France, between october 1997 and october 2001, and now in Paris.
I'm not a dancer, not a dance student, nor a dance teacher, nor a dance specialist... I'm simply a dance lover. I'm interested in all kinds of dance, and especially some ballet choreographers such as George Balanchine, Michel Fokine, Antony Tudor..., some modern dance choreographers such as Martha Graham, and some companies such as The Paris Opera Ballet.
I'm also interested in mathematics (I've just completed a doctorate thesis in geometric group theory), literature (I've the co-webmaster of a site about the group Oulipo), and especially authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Stefan Zweig, Gyula Krudy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carson McCullers, Kenji Miyazawa, Sholem Aleikhem, Georges Perec, Karen Blixen, Marcel Schwob, Raymond Queneau, Pierre Michon, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Julio Cortazar, Marie Rouanet, or Wilkie Collins, calligraphy, Japanese and Yiddish (I studied it a little bit), cats, hieroglyphics, classical music (especially Dvorak, Janacek, Ravel, Stravinsky, Nielsen, Tchaikovsky, Smetana...), Icelandic sagas...
I started making these pages in 1995. Then I was an undergraduate student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and there used to be very few web sites about dance, so that I decided to create a site myself. Since then, many companies have created their own web sites, and many people have made web pages about ballet or modern dance, but I hope that my pages still have some interest.
I didn't have a computer then (and still don't), so that I made these pages on the Web site of my school, using the computers of the students' computer's room. When I went to Marseille, I moved the pages on the server of Marseille's university. Unfortunately, it's becoming harder and harder for me to find enough time to update the pages and anser people's questions...
Most of the information of these pages come from books (see the references page), and also from helpful people (see the thanks page). There might be some typos or mistakes (unlike what some people seem to believe, the World Wide Web is not a big encyclopedia!) so be cautious if you wish to quote information from these pages...