Danser ensemble

Danser ensemble (Dancing Together) is a global project: interdisciplinary, evolutionary and, above all, human, as it is woven from encounters. It’s almost a life project for Alice Davazoglou, an artist who embraces living with Down’s syndrome to the point of shaking things up: what if, this time, it wasn’t the non-disabled who made the disabled dance, but vice versa? On the strength of this conviction and intention, and in support of the book she has written – Je suis Alice Davazoglou, je suis trisomique normale mais ordinaire –, the artist invites ten major choreographers on the French scene to perform a short choreography written for them. Gaëlle Bourges,
Lou Cantor, Bruce Chiefare, Nathalie Hervé, Marc Lacourt, Bérénice Legrand, Xavier Lot, Béatrice Massin, Mickaël Phelippeau, Alban Richard – all performers-choreographers we love to see dance, accompanied by the CN D – will come together in her moving piece. Danser ensemble opens a secret door into her labyrinth of thoughts. The challenge is clear: to touch the heart!

Alice Davazoglou

Alice Davazoglou trained in dance at the Laon Conservatory. Since 2010, she has been following Nathalie Hervé’s workshops at ART21, an association she co-founded. She participated in a number of artistic and cultural education and training projects, and has been approved by the French Ministry of Education to work in schools. In 2021, she will co-lead a workshop at the CN D for mixed-gender professional performers on the issue of disability. She performed in Universalice(solo) by Nathalie Hervé, in ART21 pieces, in We Wonder by Xavier Lot and in De Françoise à Alice by Mickaël Phelippeau. She is the author of Je suis Alice Davazoglou/Je suis trisomique normale mais ordinaire, published in 2020. For this project, she was awarded a CN D grant under the “Aide à la recherche et au patrimoine en danse” scheme. She is currently working on her first project as a choreographer, Danser ensemble.