Illustration Pulsations © Ludwick Hernandez / Mucem

Pulsations! Enter the dance

Dance workshops and festive evenings

From Saturday, November 15, 2025 to Sunday, March 8, 2026

Between popular traditions and artistic creation, the “Pulsations!” workshop cycle explores dance in all its forms: traditional, contemporary, popular, inclusive or well-being dances… there’s something for everyone at the Mucem!
Every Saturday afternoon, take advantage of group classes to discover and introduce yourself to these practices that are as joyful as they are lively. There’s no need to be a dancer, even an amateur: the sole aim is to re-form your body, together, for moments of disconnection and reconnection with yourself.
And to put your creativity into practice, three festive evenings are planned throughout the season.

A program devised by Les Suds à Arles.

Events (11)

Soul, funk et hip-hop Pulsation 2025 © Fred Faula

Soul, funk and hip-hop dance workshop

Pulsations! Enter the dance

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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.
© Victor Zebo

Contact dance workshop

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  • Workshop
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....
Atelier 17 janvier © Susana GiroÌn

Flamenco initiation

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  • Workshop
Adults, all levels With María Moreno
María Moreno’s dance is a perfect reflection of her freedom, marked by the value she places on flamenco tradition using updated, contemporary codes, bringing her technique into a position of balance. In this introduction to flamenco dance, María Moreno invites you to discover and understand some of the codes of flamenco. The transmission of basic gestures and rhythms will enable you to perform a few simple choreographic movements. You’ll learn by direct mimicry, and in Spanish for...
Free of charge
Initiation au Flamenco, Pulsations 2025 © Susana Giron

Verso libre, flamenco happening

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  • Performance
In the museum With María Moreno
Verso libre is all about dancing fever, dancing anywhere, dancing for pleasure, with or without motivation, without ambiguity, in search of new stimuli to find new forms. On this occasion, the bailaora (dancer) focuses on sound. All the locations resonate authentically, evoking memory and contributing to the reading and interpretation of the space itself. Here as elsewhere, the sound space shapes the place, just like a column, a ceiling or a cornice; bodies also react differently to sound, and...
© Christophe Manquillet

Breakdance workshop, Popping

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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...
Pulsations 2025 © Esperanza

Esperanza" hip-hop ball

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  • Evening
All audiences With company Accrorap
Spurred on by dancer and DJ Jikay, this evening pays tribute to the legendary Soul Train show, which for 40 years laid the foundations of hip-hop culture. Dancers from the Accrorap company will introduce you to emblematic hip-hop moves like locking and popping… Together, plunge into the heart of the golden age of soul and funk music and enjoy an immersive, participatory dance experience. Come and warm up in workshops before the ball to learn a few simple moves. Workshop participants will...

Greek dance workshop

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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...

Gaga people & choreography workshop

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Adults, all levels With Delphine Jungman
Discover Gaga with Delphine Jungman, a dancer trained at the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and certified Gaga Teacher by the method’s creator, Ohad Naharin. Gaga is a unique, multi-sensory body language that allows you to reconnect with your senses and free your movement. After a one-hour introduction, you’ll be guided in a practice of improvisation and composition. This workshop is an invitation to explore, where there’s nothing to learn by heart, just to feel and let...
Breakdance, Popping, Pulsations 2025 © Christophe Manquillet

Waacking workshop

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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...
Atelier passeur de bal

Ball-passing workshop

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  • Workshop
Adults, all levels With Mélisande Pommier-Ferri
Join Mélisande Pommier-Ferri as she introduces you to the pleasures of dance! For her, dance is a time for sharing, good will and good humor. You’ll learn simple, traditional dances, such as the chains and circus circles that are so popular at trad dances. Our aim? To give you the keys to take to the dance floor with confidence, and to enjoy the trad dance to the full… Whether you’re a beginner or simply curious, Mélisande will guide you so that you can let yourself be...
© Greg Cherrier

Electro Trad Ball Evening

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  • Evening
For the general public with Poolidor
Bal trad takes on a whole new dimension with Poolidor, a duo that fuses traditional Berry music with the haunting sounds of North Africa. On stage, a cobbled-together hurdy-gurdy and machines face off against a vinyl turntable to create a raw, hypnotic sound at the crossroads of eras. For this ball, they are joined by Moroccan singer and percussionist Bachir Rouimi. Together, they create a bridge between traditions, blending Western melodies with the soul of the Maghreb… A sensory and...
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