Tumbleweed / Angela Rabaglio (CH) & Micaël Florentz (FR)

Angela Rabaglio (Switzerland) - Choreographer / Dancer

Angela is a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher living in Brussels, born in Zurich (CH). She absolved her education as a dancer at the AHK in Amsterdam (de Theaterschool; MTD), and obtained in 2013 her Bachelor diploma in contemporary dance. Upon that she created her first Solo wind-up birds and polaroids, with which she performed at several festivals in Europe. She received for her work the Encouragement Prize at the Barnes Crossing Solo Duo Festival in Cologne and the Audience Prize in Budapest at the SzoloDuo Festival. 

As a performer, Angela has been dancing for four years with the Company Alias in Geneva (Guilherme Botelho) and more recently with Protoype Status (Jasmine Morand, CH). She is also part of several artistic creations by the Cie Ici’Bas (CH), as a dancer and/or choreographer. In the past, she has participated in several shorter projects and improvisation performances and has collaborated with different artists, such as Mitia Fedotenko, Itamar Serussi, Ingrid Berger Myhre, LaborGras and Simon Berz. 

Thanks to different influences in dance and other sources of movement inspirations (martial arts, climbing, yoga, dabké) she is developing gradually her personal physical practice, by melting old and new traditions. 

Angela occasionally teaches workshops and classes for (semi-)professional dancers, circus students, children and amateurs. 

Micaël Florentz (France) - Choreographer / Dancer

Micaël is a freelance artist living in Brussels, born in France. He is originally coming from a musical background and dedicated himself over the last years to his proper music compositions (guitar, voice, electronic music), performing in France and Belgium, under the pseudonyms of Bielka and Blaukraut. Besides his solo work, he has collaborated with the french artist Judith Juillerat.  

Since 2014, he has been diving into a profound physical research and is developing his proper language in dance, through autonomous training, following classes, workshops and the foundation of Tumbleweed. The same curiosity that he is manifesting for all kind of sound creations, he brings along into his choreographic research, together with a solid knowledge of composition. Movement has always been a fascinating and necessary part of his life, but only since he started dancing, he began to define his energy traveling through the body and canalizing it into creative spaces. At the same time, he is profiting from the absence of codified movement vocabulary and is gradually collecting and carving his own tools.

Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz created The Gyre in Winterthur (CH) on November 18th, 2018. They presented it in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Iran, Morocco, Jordan… The Gyre won the Distribution Award at La Grande Scène 2018 (Arles) with support from the French network Les Petites Scènes Ouvertes during the season 2019/20, and the Partner Award 2019 from the International Duet Competition RIDCC in Rotterdam, with support from Dansateliers Rotterdam.

On October 4, 2022 Tumbleweed premiered with A Very Eye in Les Brigittines (Brussels). It’s their second stage piece and first group piece (6 performers).

On June 9 2023, they created the trio Dehors est blanc at MC93 (Bobigny), in the frame of Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis.

In 2025-2026, Angela and Micaël will create their fourth project, entitled Threshold.

Website: www.cietumbleweed.com