Constellation is an arts and culture education program created in 2018 by the National Dance Center. It allows young people to discover the world of dance and share an artistic experience through a common theme : “How do I inhabit my body through dance?”
This program is part of the long-term artistic and cultural education that each student experiences during their schooling. As part of Constellation, throughout the school year, meeting new people and visiting cultural venues and works of art enable students to discover different ways of living and thinking, open up their awareness and physical practice, provide cultural references, and contribute to the development of their personality. The activities carried out are linked to classroom activities and the skills developed there.
Each project at the heart of Constellation unfolds in three main stages : discovery, exploration, and creation. Students follow a program that includes an introduction in class, seven days of choreography and mediation workshops, two lectures on anatomy and representations of the body throughout history, two performances, a parent-child workshop (for elementary school), a day of meetings and presentations with other groups, and finally, a conclusion in class.
Since the 2018/2019 season, the CN D has invited 16 partner cultural organizations to implement the program in their areas. Partners received training prior to the project, attended group meetings between educational teams, artists, and mediators, and received personalized support throughout the project. Constellation has thus enabled the co-construction of 121 unique projects, mobilized 30 mediators and 58 artists, and reached more than 2,500 students in 69 schools in 38 cities across France.
With six years of experimentation under its belt, the CND disseminates the tools and practices created in Constellation to support the development of artistic and cultural education programs in dance in France. These tools and resources are available online and can be discovered and used independently.
Between 2018 and 2025, Constellation has been deployed in partnership with
Cultural structures
ADDA du Tarn ; Boom’Structur – CDCN à Clermont-Ferrand ; CCN de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne ; CCN d’Orléans ; CCN de Tours ; Chorège – CDCN à Falaise ; Correspon’danse ; CRC Jean Philippe Rameau / La Comète Châlons-en-Champagne ; Lalanbik CDCN. ; La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle Aquitaine ; Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne ; Le nouveau relax – Théâtre de Chaumont / Maison de la danse à Lyon ; Théâtre Francine Vasse – Les laboratoires vivants à Nantes ; Théâtre Louis Aragon, Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création > danse de Tremblay-en-France ; Théâtre des Bergeries à Noisy-le-Sec
Educational institutions
AUBERVILLIERS IME et IMPro Romain Rolland ; AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS Collège Pablo Neruda ; BOBIGNY Collège République ; Lycée André Sabatier ; BOIS D’OLIVES Collège Henri Matisse ; BONDY Collège Pierre Brossolette ; CASTRES École élémentaire du Centre ; Lycée Borde-Basse ; CHALONS-EN-CHAMPAGNE École élémentaire Prieur de la Marne ; CHÂTELAILLON PLAGE École maternelle Les sables ; CHAUMONT École élémentaire René Cassin ; CLERMONT-FERRAND École Jean-Zay ; Collège Roger Quillot ; DIJON Collège André Malraux ; DRANCY Collèges Liberté et Paul Bert ; ESNANDES École élémentaire Chemin Blanc ; FALAISE École élémentaire Institution Sainte Trinité ; FLEURY-LES-AUBRAIS Collège Condorcet ; GACÉ Collège Jean Moulin ; L’ÉTANG SALÉ École élémentaire Jean Nativel ; LA COURNEUVE École élémentaire Jules Vallès ; LE BLANC-MESNIL IME Jean-Marc Itard ; Collège Jaqueline de Romilly ; LYON École élémentaire Charles Péguy ; Collège Alice Guy ; Lycée Auguste et Louis Lumière ; MALICORNAY École élémentaire de Malicornay ; MARCQ-EN-BAROEUL École élémentaire Derain-Bettignies ; MOISSY-CRAMAYEL Lycée polyvalent de la Mare Carré ; MONTREUIL Collège Cesaria Evora ; NANTES Lycée Gabriel Guist’hau ; NEUILLY-SUR-MARNE Collège Honoré de Balzac ; NOISY-LE-GRAND Collège Le Clos Saint Vincent ; NOISY-LE-SEC Écoles élémentaires Arthur Rimbaud et George Sand ; ORLEANS Collège du Bourdon Blanc ; Lycées Jean Zay et Pothier ; PANTIN Écoles maternelles La Marine, Eugénie Cotton et Joliot-Curie ; Écoles élémentaires Charles Auray, Joséphine Baker, Georges Brassens, Marcel Cachin, Sadi Carnot, Édouard Vaillant et Saint-Exupéry ; Centre de loisirs Siloé et Brassens ; Collège Joliot-Curie ; PARIS Lycée Turgot ; Centre d'Hébergement d'Urgence Emmaüs Solidarité Jean Quarré ; SAINT-FRANÇOIS Écoles élémentaires Bragelogne et Christophe Proto ; Collège Alexandre Macal ; SAINT-JEAN-DE-BRAYE École élémentaire Louis Gallouédec ; SAINT-JEAN-DE-LA-RUELLE École Jules Lenormand ; SAINT-PIERRE Collège Adam de Villiers ; Lycée François de Mahy ; TRAINOU Collège La Forêt ; TREMBLAY-EN-FRANCE École élémentaire André Malraux et Marie Curie ; Lycée Polyvalent Léonard de Vinci.
The artists
Yvann Alexandre ; Jérôme Andrieu ; Johan Amselem ; Aurélie Armellini ; Thimothé Ballo ; Jean Claude Bardu ; Bruno Benne ; Aude Le Bihan ; Émilie Birraux ; Zoé Bleher ; Mathilde Bonicel ; Garance Bréhaudat ; Pauline Brun ; Lou Cantor ; Clarisse Chanel ; Edith Château ; Jonas Chéreau ; Elodie Cottet ; Salomé Curco-Llovera ; Aurore Del Pino ; Léa Deschaintres ; Cécilia Emmenegger ; Cécile Vitry ; Clémentine Faucon ; Simon Feltz ; Massimo Fusco ; Robin Fabre ; Guillaume Forestier ; Claude Gamba ; Pierre Godard ; Julie Gouju ; Nicolas Hoarau ; Stanislas Kenyah ; Alice Lambert ; Sylvère Lamotte ; Adeline Lerme ; Sandrine Lescourant ; Johanna Levy ; Cédric Marchais ; Agatha Maszkiewicz ; Balkis Moutashar ; Yves Mwamba ; Calixto Neto ; Sarah Nouveau ; Mayalen Otondo ; Carole Perdereau ; Laurent Pichaud ; Lisa Ponin ; Sylvain Prunenec ; Dominique Rebaud ; Antoine Roux-Briffaud ; Isabela Santana ; Marcela Santander ; Liz Santoro ; Ilario Santoro ; Mickael Top ; Gilles Verièpe ; Naomi Yengadessin