Portfolio · 2026
Movement director
When the body speaks, the story begins.
Movement direction · Music video
The work
NORMAL
Official video for Lucien Lumière
Produced by Maison Lumière
Directed by Eli Chicheportiche
Art direction Roman Veiga
With Lucien Lumière and Sarah Okendo
Movement direction for rapper Lucien Lumière and actress Sarah Okendo: building the physical relationship between them, the rhythm of two bodies in an empty theatre auditorium, and their presence on camera.
Watch the music videoRoots
Three roots, one body.
Dance
Paralympic Games opening ceremonyPerformer
Choreography Alexander Ekman
Artistic direction Thomas Jolly
Place de la Concorde, Paris 2024
Coloricocola · Brice KapelNagan Production · performer
Assistant choreographer
Restaging in Lexington, Massachusetts
Encore en corps“Bodies again”Compagnie Relief · Dominique Lisette
Performer
Hermès, Valentino, Victoria’s SecretFashion shows, events, videos
Choreography
Éteignons les écrans“Let’s turn off the screens”Brice Kapel · Palais des Festivals, Cannes
4 dancers, 3 circus artists, 1 singer,
2 backing vocalists, 4 musicians
INequalityLive show and short film
Compagnie Wected (founder)
Amman Contemporary Dance Festival
Festival Onze Bouge, Paris
NORMAL · Lucien LumièreMusic video · Maison Lumière
Movement direction
Comme Si · Lucien LumièreMusic video · Maison Lumière
Choreography
Acting
The Rays and Shadows“Les Rayons et les Ombres”Xavier Giannoli · Gaumont · 2026
Supporting · Shorn woman
Fresh Water for Flowers“Changer l’eau des fleurs”Jean-Pierre Jeunet · 2026
Lighting stand-in
Carmen · Compagnie CTBLTitle role · 75 performances
Actors Factory, ParisActing school
Trained withAlexandra Reynolds and Tom Afiyan
Movement for Film · London
Areas of workFilm and TV · Fashion: runway shows and shoots
Photography · Music videos · Commercials
actors, models, performers and singers
On Jeunet’s setLighting stand-in for Anouk Grinberg on Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Fresh Water for Flowers: a close look at how he builds his images.
Method
The body knows
before words do.
Movement direction that takes the body as its first language: a process shaped around each person in front of the camera or on stage.Trust, listening, transformation.
Movement director, choreographer and performer, Gladia Marchetti builds her work on one conviction: the body is more honest than words. A person’s inner world is written in the way they move, stand and inhabit space.
Her approach always starts by building trust with the performer: it’s that safe space that makes everything else possible. It’s the same pact with the director: she listens until she knows exactly where they want to take the project, then turns all of that into movement. Every project is tailor-made, designed with the performer as much as with the director and the production: first the conversation, then the rehearsal room, and the set last of all.
In her work, movement is never just expression or form, but a means of revelation and metamorphosis, tied directly to the mind and the emotions. Her job is to draw the performer out. She goes as far as the project asks, shifting the weight, the rhythm, the posture of a body until that body says something it wasn’t saying before, on set, on stage, on a runway, in front of a lens.
She draws on her experience as a dancer, choreographer and actress to guide whoever she’s directing deeper into the role, with their whole body, on screen and in the theatre alike.
In her words
Trust is where my work always starts. I create a space safe enough for the person in front of me to let go and step out of their comfort zone without fear of getting it wrong.
From there everything else opens up: the body warms up, the breathing eases, and little by little real transformation happens, not the performed kind.
Dance, choreography, acting: those are my roots, and I bring all three into every body I work with, on and off set. I want to keep searching for that transformation in whoever’s in front of me.
Gladia Marchetti
What body
does your
vision need?