Artist
& Artistic director
'“An aestetic act is a politic act”
Rylee Luna ( alias Luna Ananda ) is an artist, former dancer and choreographer originally from France, born in 1992. Her identity as an artist has been influenced and developed alongside her international education and career. As a dancer and choreographer she is inspired by differents techniques and movement approaches that offer a lot of freedom, diversity and creativity in her work .
Working for companies and exploring movement languages and cultural influences in dance techniques and approaches throughout Spain, Argentina, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Portugal and The Netherlands, after her dance education in France, she kept on growing into her knowledge and developed in and throughout it, her own dance language. Throughout her whole dance career, she never lost her passion for photography/image, and worked closely with other film makers, and choreographers that pushed her into the film industry, where she quickly began to create and direct her own work.
An important part of Rylee’s personality and work is her link to the sexual body as well as the natural and spiritual world. The questioning -observation- of humanity’s place and behaviors in and through a political and cultural context. The connection to the infinitely small to the infinitely big, and loves to observe how human is connected to a deeper, larger entity.
Her work as a visual artist wants to create a surreal atmosphere, a wonderfull/bizarre/intriguing universe where codes are changed and played with. A mix between dream and reality where fantasy are allowed and the body takes center stage.
In parallel of being a dancer, Rylee has been studying photography, plastic art, and filmmaking. This has brought in her the drive to observe the body in movement with different points of view and the necessity to use those different formats in her creations. The body as a tool , to create beauty, to share a voice, to express an idea, to develop a visual work that can take multiple forms and aspects. She wants to retransmit an idea of beauty, in which lies the complexity and simplicity of human beings.
Rylee Luna is also a co director and creator of the company I was about to tell you i love you , working together with her partner and the artist Max Stoces Martinez . She functions as a director and art/ visual director, photographer, cameraman, editor and as a post production and visual supervisor. Rylee is also a model, and her love, interest and passion for fashion, style and aesthetics is another tool that she adds to her repertoire.
“Rylee is a multidisciplinary artist; former dancer, choreographer, model, image/film director , editor, designer, writter and painter.
Rylee’s photographic work wants to link sensuality with poetry.
Her eye, her creativity, her knowledge, linked with her passion for movement, details, precision and aesthetic gives her the capacity to direct image with a sense of poetry.
Growing up as a wild child, riding horses and living in a teepee, barefeet in the french faraway nature; when she had to face and live in the current modern world/ society , she couldn’t but dive herself into art as a way to exist and survive.
Where art was a necessity, at first, it turned to be a choice when she could identify herself with the modern society, and use her instinct and overwelming creativity to develop herself through and with multiple mediums and tools.
Her Hunger for learning, discovering and making gave her strenght and courage all along her path.”
Since 2013 she worked as a dancer, choreographer, actor, model, for multiple artists, choreographers, companies, adds, agencies and always kept on working on her own work and personal creations.
She is both working for and creating with. The director and the directed.
In parallel, she was a painter in her lost hours and nowadays develops this aspect of her art as well as fashion design making.
Autoportrait co created with Max Stoces - 2024
ANIMAL INSTINCTS 2024
In Tension 2022
A devil of a time 2022
RE CONNECTION 2021
Giselle, all’s well that end’s well - 2021