Roller disco workshop

Adults, all levels, With Bayram Varsak and Nicolas Courdeau The program takes you on a journey through four traditional Kurdish dances, each with its own distinct rhythm, to explore the richness and diversity of this dance culture. The choreographies, simple and accessible to all, are first learned in silence, without music, to integrate the steps and sequences. Once the basics have been mastered, the music comes in to energize the whole group. The workshop also includes a rhythmic introduction...

Adults, all levels With Gaëtan Brun Picard from Compagnie Shōnen
Experience the choreographed, participatory clubbin’ experience entitled Sous Influence, imagined by choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing and the Shōnen company. Far from a classical dance class, this workshop led by his choreographic collaborator Gaëtan Brun Picard plunges you into a universe blending the energy of techno music and movements inspired by contact dance. This improvised practice is rooted in dancers’ physical points of contact with their partner or environment....

All ages 13 and up With Anne Lopez
When the world turns upside down, the dancer stands tall; he makes imbalance his greatest strength, and his dance exists only in the present, between the imaginary and the real world. Anne Lopez proposes a two-stage workshop process: allowing the dance nested in each person’s body to unfold, then to be written. Dancing, searching for gestures, getting into movement, letting yourself be surprised by the impulse of an idea, a sound, a place or someone else. Improvise, then collect the...

Adults, all levels With Fred Faula
In this workshop, you’ll discover the catchy rhythms and emblematic gestures that have shaped some of the most popular dances in hip-hop culture. Stemming from soul and funk trends, you’ll discover Soul steps, Line dance and Locking. Fred Faula will guide you through the basics of these dances, working on feeling, listening to music and the fundamentals of improvisation.

Adults, all levels With Dimitris Adam & Nicolas Mélodias, accompanied by Violette Boulanger (violin) and Victor Stoichita (laouto)
Thrace, Macedonia, Peloponnese, Crete, the Aegean Islands or the Ionian Islands – each region of Greece is home to diverse cultural traditions. While the dances of the mountainous regions are identifiable by their marked steps on the ground, the nissiotika (island dances) feature more bouncy movements, like the waves that surround the countless islands of the archipelago. Accompanied by the laouto (lute) and violin, this workshop is an opportunity to discover an anthology of traditional...

Adults, all levels With Nabjibe Said and Aline Lopes
Much more than just a dance, hip-hop was born in the streets of the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s. It was a protest movement, a way of expressing oneself and partying away from violence. Breakdance is one of its most emblematic forms, with its ground movements, acrobatic figures and explosive energy. Nabjibe Said and Aline Lopes propose a workshop to discover this practice, through the movements and flows that have shaped the history of hip-hop. An opportunity to connect with the power and...

Adults, all levels With Paul de Saint-Paul
A dance to liberate, assert and express your personality! Inspired by Hollywood actresses and disco divas, waacking originated in the gay clubs of Los Angeles’ black and Latino community in the early 1970s. Now associated with all kinds of music, characterized by groovy gestures and rapid arm movements, this dance can be found in clubs, battles, video clips, fashion… And if Paul de Saint-Paul’s choreographies borrow from Almodóvar’s cinema, Mannerist painting or Cindy...

Adult, all levels, Compagnie Sylvain Huc
Sylvain Huc sees the body in movement as a language, but also as a technology, a set of techniques that he shares. The workshop unfolds in perpetual movement, from floor to standing. The repetition of gestures that gradually become more complex becomes a working principle. Made up of strata that gradually build up, these gestures, or motifs, cultivate physical rigor and precision of movement. “There’s a strong artisanal dimension to my practice, in the sense that repetition of...