Established in 2013, (LA)HORDE is the collaborative vision of artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel. A collective of choreographers and visual artists, they have served as directors of the Ballet national de Marseille since 2019 and work closely with disparate online communities, whose energies fuel their innovative, cross-disciplinary creations. 

Across films and performances—Novaciéries (2015), The Master’s Tools (2017), Cultes (2019), Ghosts (2021)—as well as choreographic works such as Night Owl (2016), To Da Bone (2017), Marry Me in Bassiani (2019), and Room with a View (2020), (LA)HORDE interrogates the political component of dance, tracing choreographic forms of collective uprising from raves and jumpstyle to traditional dance. 

Engaging with contemporary relationships between dance, the body, and digital circulation, the collective has developed the concept of “post-internet dances.” By diversifying formats, (LA)HORDE explores the near-infinite serendipity of this terrain, offering multiple perspectives on the uprisings of the communities they engage with through a heterarchical mode of collaboration.

A graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Julien Peissel is a set, prop, and lighting designer. Since 2001, he has worked as a lighting designer at the Opéra Bastille, while also creating sets for cinema, including Vermilion Souls by Japanese director Iwana Masaki. 

As a set designer, Peissel has contributed to more than twenty-five productions, collaborating with a wide range of directors and choreographers. His work includes productions with Vincent Macaigne (Friche 22.66, Au moins j’aurai laissé un beau cadavre, Idiot!, Requiem 3, Voilà ce que jamais je ne te dirai), Julie Bérès (Soleil blanc, L’Orfeo, Le Petit Eyolf), Marion Lévy (En somme, Dans le ventre du loup, Les Puissantes), Stéphanie Chevara (Kroum l’ectoplasme), Claude Buchwald, Ricardo Lopez Muñoz (Tchip), Maurice Bénichou (Ce qui demeure), Jean-Noël Dahan (La Rimb), Catherine Baÿ (Le Banquet de Blanche-Neige), and the company Soleil Sous La Pluie (Décalcomanies). 

He also designed the sets for Marry Me in Bassiani and Room with a View for the collective (LA)HORDE.

After beginning his career as a graphic designer in the press and publishing industry, Eric Wurtz turned to stage lighting in 1983 with the Lolita group. His distinctive approach to light soon led to collaborations with some of the most innovative figures in contemporary dance, including Lucinda Childs, Philippe Decouflé, La Ribot, and Mathilde Monnier, for whom he designed lighting for all her works. 

Throughout his career, Wurtz has created lighting designs for productions by Philippe Genty, Alain Maratrat, Maurice Bénichou, Boyzie Cekwana, John Scott, Cécilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud, and Salia Sanou. Drawn to the challenge of working in diverse contexts, he has also designed lighting for major institutional events, such as the closing ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Normandy landings (1994) and the opening of the Al Janadrya Festival in Riyadh (2001). 

In 1997, he received a Nusantara grant from the AFAA and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which allowed him to pursue a personal research and creation project in Indonesia focused on light as a distinct medium. Through these experiences, he has contributed to the evolution of stage practice in which light becomes a central creative partner. 

More recently, he designed the lighting for Room with a View (2020) and, in 2021, for the CHILDS–CARVALHO–LASSEINDRA–DOHERTY program at the Ballet national de Marseille.

Pierre Aviat (Avia) released his first EP, All My Jazz, in 1999. Around the same time, he trained as a sound engineer at the École Louis-Lumière, where he developed a strong interest in sound effects—an area he pursued for several years. In 2002, the evocative tracks on his album I See That Now opened the door to work in film music. 

From Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions (2004), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, to César Vayssié’s performance film UFE (2016), Aviat has moved fluidly across genres and formats. His work includes documentaries such as Relève, the Netflix series Move (2020) by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai, and the feature film Carnivors (2018) by Yannick Renier. He has also collaborated extensively in contemporary art and dance with artists including JR, Xavier Veilhan, Dimitri Chamblas, Wendy Morgan, Olga Dukhovna, Ali Cherri, Mathilde Monnier, Yves Godin, and Adrien Dantou. In April 2016, he created the sound design for the 3e Scène exhibition at the Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc pour la culture. 

Working in a duo with artist Orly, Aviat composed music for the performances Cover and Rien que pour vos yeux by Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier, as well as the soundtrack for César Vayssié’s film Ne travaille pas. He was among the artists invited by Xavier Veilhan to participate in Studio Venezia during the 2017 Venice Biennale.  

Gabber Eleganza began as a musician curating digital archives and quickly evolved his work to span art, fashion, music, and contemporary culture. 

The project seeks to bridge the sonic and aesthetic worlds of hardcore and post-rave culture with the present, expressed through publications, recordings, installations, and live performances. 

Renowned for his technical precision and instinctive feel across rave genres, Gabber Eleganza is also the founder of the independent label Never Sleep. His work has led to curating shows at Berlin’s Berghain and performing at leading clubs and festivals worldwide, alongside the publication of the acclaimed book Hardcore Soul and collaborations with Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey and photographer Ewen Spencer. 

Recent projects include designing a collection with Alexander McQueen and creating bespoke music for Isabel Marant runway shows. Singular in vision and execution, Gabber Eleganza stands apart for his integrity, range, and style. 

Salomé Poloudenny is a fashion stylist specializing in creative direction for costume and contemporary art. Drawn early to both art and fashion, she worked for several years around Paris Fashion Week. When (LA)HORDE encountered Poloudenny while collaborating on an editorial for the Ballet national de Marseille, they were struck by the cohesion of image and costume in her work—where makeup, styling, hairstyling, and photography operate on equal footing. This approach, grounded in hands-on experimentation, allows her to merge disciplines and develop a singular aesthetic situated between fashion photography and performance, bringing forth staged tableaux in which clothing gives rise to fully realized characters. It was at this moment that her collaboration with the collective began. 

In 2020, she designed the costumes for Room with a View. Alongside this work, she continues to collaborate with models and performers from the worlds of art, fashion, music, nightlife, and LGBTQIA+ communities—including Simon.e Thiébaut (aka Drame Nature) and Harry Charlesworth—working in Paris and internationally, notably in New York, Tunis, Taipei, London, and Berlin. Her work has also appeared in publications such as Buffalo Zine and Masses. 

French-born Charlie Le Mindu is a widely recognized designer and creative director based in New York City. He has collaborated with leading figures across fashion, art, and performance, drawing on his background as a hairdresser to continually explore new conceptions of beauty, the body, gender, and self-expression. Resisting convention and fixed expectations, Le Mindu has developed hybrid forms of design and performance using his signature material: hair. From Haute Coiffure (haute couture crafted entirely from hair) to Tricophile art, performative works, and capillary choreographies, his practice reimagines hair as both medium and message. 

His fashion clients include Alexander Wang, Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler, Jean Paul Gaultier, Mugler, Balmain, Luis de Javier, Kevin Germanier, L’Oréal Professionnel, Camper, and Walter Van Beirendonck. His work has appeared on runways and in campaigns, as well as in publications such as Vogue (UK and US), i-D, Hunger, Dazed, Dust, and Paper. 

Le Mindu has also collaborated with numerous celebrities and renowned photographers, including Juergen Teller, Amelia Gray Hamlin, Julia Fox, Angèle, Eartheater, Tim Walker, Megan Thee Stallion, Lady Gaga, Shygirl, Nick Knight, La Femme, Rossy de Palma, Lana Del Rey, Peaches, and Doja Cat. 

In performance, he has designed for some of the most adventurous choreographers and creators, including Alexander Ekman, (LA)HORDE, and Jeroen Verbruggen, with works presented on major international stages such as the Staatsballett Berlin, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and the Opéra Garnier. 

His work has been exhibited worldwide in leading cultural institutions, including the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, the V&A Museum, Gaîté Lyrique, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton.