Hortense Belhôte is an actress, author and art historian. She is the creator of Merci de ne pas Toucher, an ARTE web serie directed by Cécilia de Arce which decrypts the masterpieces of classical European art.
As an actress, she has performed for the theatre and the cinema and taught dramatic art in Parisian conservatories. She has also worked on musical productions with the conductor Hacène Larbi (Les Nuits), the choreographer Mark Tompkins (Show Time ! a musical), the performer Mathieu Grenier (#NALF l’opéra) and the actress Sarah Cohen-Hadria (Kissing Nodules). In contemporary dance, she has been a performer since 2017 in Footballeuses by Mickaël Phelippeau, whose company now hosts some of her spectacular conferences.
Graduated with a master’s degree in art history, she has taught for a long time in design schools, art market schools and universities. At the intersection of her practices, she has created a bespoke form : the spectacular conference, whose catalog expands over the years.
Une Histoire du football féminin has been touring since 2019 in performance and educational venues; in 2021 Histoire de Graffeuses was created on the Centre Dramatique National de Besançon request; in 2022 where created Performeureuses (an history of performance in contemporary dance) for the Théâtre de Vanves, followed by Et la marmotte ? (an historical and sociological approach to mountains) commissioned by the Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble, and 1664 (thorough debunking of the Louis XIV’s absolutism) at the Centre National de la Danse. In 2023, Portraits de famille – les oubliées de la revolution française, produced by the Espace 1789 in Saint-Ouen and performed at Théâtre de l’Atelier in Paris, becomes part of this extensive heritage reinterpretation beyond the boundaries of arts and preconceived ideas.
In 2024, Hortense Belhôte is an artist in residence to the Orsay Museum. She creates in January Escape Game XIX, a spectacular visit in the museum collections and presents in (the 2024 spring)/ June 2024 a stage version in the museum’s auditorium.
