After a career as a teacher and researcher, Peggy Hugon decided to reveal her artistic side, which she had always nurtured, by founding the TESTUDINES Company to create interdisciplinary works that invite us to rethink the boundaries of art. Trained in the performing arts from an early age and an accomplished multidisciplinary artist, Peggy Hugon has developed a wealth of artistic experience in dance, theatre and music. Her work is distinguished by a participatory and interdisciplinary approach to arts and sciences, creating works that question society and our relationship with life.

Her artistic approach is marked by a desire to make visible the invisible, the tenuous, the sensitive, the other, the distant, the near, the whole and, ultimately, the connections between them. She considers art to be a revealer, a detonator, a marking of souls. Her minimalist and immersive vision plays on dramatic tensions and different degrees of sensitivity, and this is where the full meaning of her artistic exploration lies. She seeks to provoke an organic, cathartic and realistic experience through raw and refined forms of scenic narration. Her artistic influences are manifold, and this is where the richness of her artistic perspective lies, which has very few limits.

She conceives her creations as spaces for dialogue between arts and sciences, where each project is an invitation to rethink the way we perceive and interact with the world and with ourselves. She regularly collaborates with researchers and other artists to develop unique works. For several years, her work has explored the question of body/mind duality. Her creations have as their common denominator humanity in the broadest sense of the term, in all its diversity and interaction with others. Often from the perspective of feeling in its broadest sense.

Thanks to her experience and human values, Peggy Hugon attaches particular importance to passing on and making culture accessible. She therefore bases her approach on cultural rights and, beyond the local mediation activities she is particularly fond of, develops unique participatory and inclusive creations by involving non-professional audiences in the creative process, which falls within the new field of participatory arts.

Peggy HUGON attaches particular and essential importance to showcasing the works created during the mediation process and to leaving a record of the human adventures experienced. She is particularly fond of the relationship with images through the short audiovisual works produced by the TESTUDINES company as a sensitive record of the paths taken.