About us

They work at theEcole du Ballet du Nord in Lille, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon, L'Odyssey Dance Theatre in Singapore, Epidaurus Lyceum in Greece, Ballet Junior de Genève, HKAPA - Hong-Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Festival Danser Maintenant in Cotonou, Escola Livre de Dança da Maré in Rio de Janeiro, Studio Architanz Tokyo, Belgrade Dance Institute in Serbia....
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They also work with national ballets, including Cuba, Jin Xing Dance Theatre in Shanghai, Sibiu Ballet- Romania, Ballet del Teatro San Martin de Buenos Aires - Argentina and Carte Blanche Bergen - Norway.
They also carry out large-scale projects, notably with Lia Rodrigues ''Passarella'', which was a major international exchange project between young people from the Centro de Artes Da Maré, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro's favela, and the Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle. ''RE-SERENADE'', which brought together 60 dancers from the conservatories of La Rochelle, Niort, Poitiers and Châtellerault and an orchestra of teachers and students in a major repertory project and regional tour.''KOMMOS'', an invitation from the Athens and Epidaurus festivals, a piece for 105 young artists of 14 different nationalities, dancers.euses et acteurs.trices, an in situ project created in the ancient and archaeological site of Epidaurus in Greece.

Since 2017, they have been artistic and pedagogical coordinators ofABC - Atlantique Ballet Contemporain, an artistic training program for dancers at the La Rochelle Conservatoire. Being backed by an independent company from the professional world gives this training, supported by the Conservatoire de Musique et Danse de La Rochelle, a learning environment with characteristics close to the professional reality of a dancer today. Artists and choreographers from a wide range of aesthetic backgrounds are invited to give workshops, pass on their repertoire and create with the young artists of tomorrow. In September 2022, the training will become a D.U Danse - Diplôme Universitaire with La Rochelle University, and a two-year promotion.

Committed to the democratization of dance and access to culture for all, they run workshop projects and raise awareness of the choreographic art form, from the very young to university students. Every year, they take over the gymnasiums of middle and high schools in the Charente-Maritime department with a traveling project to share the practice of dance with as many people as possible. In 2017, they initiated a cycle of work and residencies with so-called "hindered" audiences, notably in a creative process with a group of blind and visually impaired people in Poitiers, a 6-month immersion residency at the Ehpad du Plessis in La Rochelle and a daily workshop for staff at the CHU de La Rochelle, with the ARS network. In 2020, together with La Sirène - SMAC de La Rochelle and Carré Amelot, they are launching a major project of music, dance and digital workshops and performances in the La Rochelle metropolitan area.

Always seeking to open up the art of choreography to as many people as possible, they join forces with local partners such as the University or the CNAR - Sur le pont, and propose a grouping of local associations and dance schools around dance events such as BABELBAL, inviting all couples dances to a festive event, and TOUS A LA BARRE, which takes over the public space for free practice accessible to all levels.

The porosity between creations, teaching, transmission projects, outreach and audience encounters on the local, regional, national and international territory is the very essence of the company's operation, led by Christophe Béranger and Jonathan Pranlas-Descours since 2012 in the La Rochelle area.