Sabine JAMET was born in 1964 in Saint Mande to the East of Paris. At 5 years old, she dreamed of becoming "the little rat" at the Opera and took her first lessons in dance, but this was interrupted temporarily as she relocated with her family to Normandy. She successfully concluded her studies and obtained a DEA at the Universite Paris IV Sorbonne "Civilization of the Golden Age in Spain", a country which she adopted from her early chidhood. Abandoning her doctoral thesis of thanatology, Sabine Jamet devoted herself exclusively to dance and a number of her formative experiences took her to Spain in the Luis Ruffo Dance Company.
When she was an dancer at the Comedie Francaise of the production of “ The Masked Ball ” directed by Anatoli Vassiliev in 1992, she met the composer Kamil Tchalaev and embarked on a career of independant choreography. Her research took her to Turkey where she led several extended and acclaimed pedagogical series (Yildiz University, Mimar Sinan University, Studio Mekan), performed (Festival d’Istanbul), and choreographed several performances seen at the Festivals of Assos, Izmit, Ankara, Tunnel and others. With the assistance of La Nouvelle Academie Libre, she founded in Paris the “Irma Kazotte Studios” to further research dance in urban settings and at Mantes-la-Jolie, “l’Ecole Sauvage”, where she devotes herself to the artistic development of children coming from culturally deprived backgrounds. Sabine Jamet is fluent with the Flamenco dance technique, also knows qi-kong, practices classical dance and transmits a comtemporary expression in her ability to liberate the spine through her refusal to adhere to the conventional restrictions as witnessed in traditional dance scenes - a “danse sans toit” (roofless dance). She pursues her experiences (and boundaries) in dance as a means of communication and expression (danza cellular, telephone booths) and in public places (supermarkets, malls, libraries, parking lots, wood decks).

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