PRE-PROFESSIONAL
They teach at theEcole du Ballet du Nord in Lille, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, L'Odyssey Dance Theatre - Singapore, Epidaurus Lyceum - Greece, Ballet Junior de Genève - Switzerland, HKAPA - Hong-Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Festival Danser Maintenant in Cotonou - Benin, Escola Livre de Dança da Maré in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, Studio Architanz Tokyo - Japan, Belgrade Dance Institute - Serbia....
They also carry out large-scale projects, bringing together a large number of pre-professional performers, at the crossroads of transmission and creation:
- With Lia Rodrigues Passarella#10which was a major international exchange project between 40 young 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 conservatories of La Rochelle, Niort, Poitiers and Chatellerault and an orchestra of teachers and students in a major repertory project and regional tour.
- ''KOMMOS'', invited by the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, a piece for 105 young artists of 14 different nationalitiesdancers and actors, an in situ project created on the ancient and archaeological site of Epidaurus in Greece.
COMPAGNIE NATIONALE
They also work with national ballets, including the Ballet de l'Opéra de Metz, the Kosovo National Ballet in Pristina, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba in Havana, Jin Xing Dance Theatre - China, Sibiu Ballet - Romania, Ballet del Teatro San Martin de Buenos Aires - Argentina and Carte Blanche Bergen - Norway.
These weeks of artistic immersion give rise to creative projects, in 2012 for the Ballet de l'Opéra de Metz Tchaikovsky Evening and internationally, in 2016, for the Kosovo National Ballet ''Recomposed''a piece on the issue of migration, since the ballet is made up of former refugees. In 2018, they were invited to create a '' Sacre du printemps - Consagracion'' for the national company Danza Contemporánea de Cuba in Havana with 105 musicians from the Gran Teatro orchestra, presented at the Gran Teatro Alicia Alonzo to open the month of French culture in Cuba, and for this work receive the Villanueva critics' prize for best show of 2018.
BODY TRAINING FOR ACTORS
Supporting multi-disciplinary artists is a major focus of our creative work, and actor training is an area in which we've been working for several years. Our encounters at the Lyceum of Epidaurus in Greece have furthered this relationship between theater and the body, and we regularly accompany "Workshops and Creative Workshops" for actors and actresses, notably with La Volia in Paris.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: NOWDAYS PERFORMERS
The contemporary artist unites performance, theater and dance.We see the body as the site of embodied speech, engaging the individual/being/human in its totality.By becoming one with the play, dance movement enables us to ask the question of the individual/citizen in his or her relationship to space and time in a new way. Through improvisation, we seek to identify bodily habits, to take new paths and thus renew habits by "deconstructing" the representations in which our bodies enclose us.
These workshops are designed for those who want to explore their deepest feelings, to physically use the body as a catalyst for shared emotions, to explore its physical transformation - like catharsis in ancient drama. To be able to embody a series of bodies, figures and states to translate the madness of our world, its contradictions and oxymorons.The artist's body becomes an instrument that examines and embodies the passage from weakness to strength, transforming "Achilles' heel into Medusa's gaze".Imagination and physical awareness are gradually honed in a series of exercises using voice, body, partnerships and group rituals to shift our "here and now" limits.
Committed to the democratization of dance and access to culture for all, they run workshops and raise awareness of choreographic art from nursery school to university.
COLLÈGES TOURNÉE
Every year, they take over the gymnasiums of middle and high schools in the Charente-Maritime department with an itinerant project to share the dance practice of ABC - Atlantique Ballet Contemporain
OPTION ART/DANSE - LYCÉE DAUTET
The company has been involved with this Art/Dance option for several years. Our involvement has ranged from simple classes to the creation of pieces that have been presented at the Festival À Corps in Poitiers. It's a strong link that has developed with this option, where the body can be put into play in an acute way.
BOUGER LES MURS - 2021- 2022
Creation project and immersion residency at Lycée Dautet, around the question of digital technology and its use in everyday life, through danced portraits... project postponed due to the health crisis, so a final week of immersion at the Lycée will bring the project to a close with a week of filming with students in 2nd, 1st and Terminale. The video project will then be accompanied by a booklet and offered to families.
ATELIERSDANSE & BEATBOX
It's around the creations Métamorphone (2018) and YŪREI (2021) that we're launching the ''livret du spect'acteur''.
It's neither an instruction manual nor a list of recipes, but a way for us to share the questions that ran through the creative process, and to weave links between disciplines and the arts. We always work in collaboration with our performers, and they are the first to become active spectators of the creative process, transforming the work through their own eyes. It is this transformation of the work through the eye that we propose to guide. In addition to the information and workshops suggested in this booklet, the company is offering practical artistic workshops around Métamorphone and YŪREI. Dance and beatbox workshops led by project artists Brice Rouchet and Tioneb, allowing young audiences to nurture their creativity.
In 2020, with La Sirène - SMAC de La Rochelle and Carré Amelot, a major project of music, dance and digital workshops and performances in the Communauté d'agglomération rochelaise.
P(ART)COURS - VILLE DE LA ROCHELLE
ÉCOLE DESCARTES - CRÈCHE SAINT ELOI - CENTRE SOCIAL - COLLÈGE MENDES FRANCE - ÉCOLE BARTHELEMY PROFIT
From nursery school to high school, via kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and social centers, the company is involved in the P(art)cours programs organized by the City of La Rochelle with the support of the D.R.A.C.
The company organizes a variety of artistic workshops around the company's work and dance in general, in all the different places where our young citizens are building their future.
