Adèle Haenel is a French actress and activist born in 1989. She started her career on the movie scene collaborating with important filmmakers such as the Dardenne Brothers “Unknown Woman” and Céline Sciamma “Water Lilies”, and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”. In 2019, after taking active part in the #MeeToo movement, she decided to quit the movie industry to call out its complicity with the patriarchal system. Since 2019, she is working in close collaboration with choreographer Gisele Vienne and is starring in her two last pieces “L’Étang” and “Extralife”.  She made her debut as a director in 2022 staging “Le voyage sans fin” by Monique Wittig at the Maison de la Poésie in Paris. 

During her residency at the Fondation Camargo, Adèle Haenel will be working on a project entitled " Aiming right". An actor's job is to act. To act well, in fact. The question is "at what?”. Unlike soccer, where the rules are well known, The actor's mission seems to be above all to discover the game he's being asked to play. What is being played when playing? Can we hack the rules of the game, or refuse to play the game? The aim of this project is to write an instruction manual for actors, focusing on extending the actor's field of action and responsibility. In contrast to the subordination relationship between a thinking director and an obedient actor, how can we think of an acting style that not only inhabits the stage but also becomes a stage in itself, a space for staging and melodic artistic affirmation?