The "artists in experimentation" program at the CN D in Lyon is aimed at artistic teams to offer them a time of research, experimentation, and studio presentation to professionals in the area. Thought as a research laboratory, an attempt to obtain or to realize an artistic work, without expectation of result, this creation support system pays particular attention to emerging choreography and artistic discovery. Its vocation is to bring artists from here and elsewhere a visibility on the territory of the Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Each season, from October to June, the CN D in Lyon offers eight artistic teams the opportunity to work for a week in the studio with a studio presentation at the end of the residency, corresponding to the first Friday of each month. This time of sharing takes place in a format of twenty to thirty minutes of presentation (in studio conditions) by the hosted artistic team, followed by an exchange with the professionals present.
Selected artists have access to the CN D's various activities and/or resources (media library, professional resources, classes, networking, etc.).
The CN D organizes two calls for applications per season for the "artists in experimentation" program 2025-2026:
− A first call opened from 2 December 2024 to 10 January 2025 to select four artistic teams and projects to be hosted by the CN D in Lyon from October 2025 to January 2026 (call closed).
− A second call open from 15 May to 15 June 2025 to select four artistic teams and projects to be hosted at the CN D in Lyon between February and June 2026 (call closed).
It is not possible to apply twice consecutively. It is up to the artistic teams wishing to apply to determine the most appropriate time to submit an application, according to the projects. Therefore artistic teams who responded to the first call for applications are not eligible to apply for the second call for 2025-2026.
Contribution of the CN D € 1 800
Consequently, the artistic teams hosted are made up of a maximum of 5 people.
Nota bene
− Project holders are responsible for organizing the arrival of artistic teams and their stay in Lyon;
− Artistic teams will be hosted at the CN D in Lyon under studio conditions, i.e. with service lights and mobile sound system;
− Projects submitted must not have already been presented in their entirety. The CN D favors projects that are part of a research and experimentation process;
− Under this program, the CN D supports projects at an experimental stage of work (no more than 2 completed weeks of residency at the time of the CN D hosting).
− Only projects holders whose organization is based in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region are eligible to apply for the two programs: "artists in creation" and "artists in experimentation".
Artists supported in 2025-2026 within the frame of the Artists in experimentation programme
Eva Aubigny – Compagnie Organ Tumult
FOYERS
Trained in 2009 at the Paris Opera Ballet School, then from 2016 to 2020 at the CNSMD Lyon in contemporary dance, Eva Aubigny went on to win the Postgraduate Diploma in Research and Artistic Creation from the Ecoles Supérieures en Art de Lyon for her first piece, parmi l'humilité de la chair, ceux qu'il reste. Eva Aubigny then became a TREMPLIN artist-choreographer at the Espace Pasolini in Valenciennes for her second creation, PARMI (duo), and was named Young Talent ADAMI 21/22 by the Ateliers de Paris CDCN.
In 2023, she created the Organ Tumult (OT) company, whose artistic activities travel between the Hauts-de-France region, the Lyon region, the Vercors and the PACA region.
For the 23/24 season, Eva Aubigny was the winning artist of Happynest-SUPERAMAS and ‘Création en cours’ at the Ateliers Médicis with her latest creation TENIR (which premiered at the SUBS in Lyon in 2024), and a collaborating artist with the company Le Double des Clés (artistic creation and popular education) in the Roya Valley.
She has also performed for Jérôme Bel, Miguel Filipe, Louison Valette, and Giovanni Zazzera, and continues to dance for the Eddi Van Tsui Company (Luxembourg), Hélène Iratchet (France), and the KHAM Company (France, Ardèche).
FOYERS is an artistic laboratory exploring how to dive into a hybridisation of dreams and tactility.
The basis for this choreographic work is a desire to return to contact dance practices with a perspective inspired by recent ecofeminist thinking, to create a trio dance in which resistance, support, gentleness, mutual aid and chosen fictions are constantly intertwined, and to continue the work of gentle trance based on the observation of fire begun in the previous creation, TENIR. And also the desire to develop practices around night-time dreams, to tell each other about our dreams but also to investigate (in a way inspired by Charlotte Beradt's book Dreaming Under the Third Reich) those of our mothers and grandmothers, to attempt a condensed embodiment of all these temporal layers of dreams. »
Céline Bellut
MY FREEDOM IS YOUR DISTORTED GAZE
Céline Bellut, a performer and choreographer trained at Folkwang University (Essen, Germany), moved to Cologne in 2017, where she created interdisciplinary works such as SUDDENLY, A SLOTH CROSSES THE STREET (2023), A PERFORMANCE IS A LONG QUIET RIVER (2021) and HOLD ON (2019). In 2024, she moved to Marseille to begin a reflection, inspired by post-humanist thought, on degrowth and ecology, and explored new links between movement, clay and biomaterials, while training in Fasciapulsology®.
Created between 2017 and 2020, this solo piece by Céline Bellut questions the norms, productivity and virtuosity imposed on bodies by neoliberalism. Today, she passes it on to Danijel Sesar, who brings his own history, political struggles and cultural heritage to the piece. Inspired by the punk protest movement of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the performance celebrates fragility, fatigue and error as acts of resistance. It redefines virtuosity outside of ableist norms and pays tribute to the erased memory of the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
Lundy Grandpré
25 façons de faire l'amour à la Terre
Lundy Grandpré was born in 2018 from the meeting between Akène Lenoir and Lucile Genin. Akène Lenoir is a dancer and choreographer trained at the CNSMD Lyon, and Lucile Genin is a performer and visual artist trained at the ENSBA Lyon. The duo enjoys constructing alternative narratives, gardens that have survived the end of the world, talkative plants, sweaty bodies, and spectators who participate in the performances. Their creations mischievously take the audience on adventures that are as engaging as they are exhilarating.
“25 Ways to Make Love to the Earth is a choreographic adaptation of the eponymous text by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. We want to create a joyful and festive form that will come to life when it encounters the inhabitants and territories in which it will be performed. Like Annie and Beth, we will use humour and irony as a powerful tool to forge a link between the audience and the artists, and thus make the messages conveyed by ecosexuality accessible.”
Anne-Mareike Hess
in the air
Anne-Mareike Hess (Luxembourg/Berlin) is a choreographer, performer and artistic director of utopic productions. She studied at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg, the HfMDK in Frankfurt am Main and the HZT Inter-University Centre for Dance in Berlin. Since 2007, Anne-Mareike Hess has worked as a performer with choreographers such as William Forsythe, Rosalind Goldberg, Ingri Fiksdal and Antje Velsinger, with whom she has performed in venues around the world. Her own works have been presented in numerous theatres and festivals across Europe and South Korea. Since 2016, she has been an associate artist at Weld in Stockholm. She received the Emerging Artist Award from the ‘Stiftung zur Förderung junger Talente’ (2012) and the Danzpraïs (2015) from the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture.
This project envisages a choreography for a solo performer, evolving in a dynamic and changing landscape. The work explores the tension between emotional numbness, fuelled by an overstimulated and self-exploitative society, and the deep desire to feel alive, touched and moved. Modern life inundates us with stimuli, blurring the line between the mundane and the essential, thus promoting a form of emotional anesthesia. Yet the human need for connection and vitality persists. This project draws inspiration from the poetic notion of “Einhauchen” — a German term meaning “to breathe life into” — as a guide for exploring this field of tension and proposing playful and reflective experiments.
The premiere of in the air will take place in November 2026 at the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg.
With TROIS C-L | Maison pour la danse (Luxembourg)
Eliane Roumié
Hers
Eliane Roumié is a Greek-Syrian artist whose work investigates themes of identity and transition through a process rooted in inquiry, embodied exploration, and experiential knowledge. She employs documentation, score-building, and collective feedback to let each piece emerge through research and interaction with the expressive body. Eliane was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS and has also received support from the Goethe-Institute, ELEVSIS European Capital of Culture, NEON, and the City of Athens.
Hers explores the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through the lens of the female body. Combining movement, visual art, and storytelling, it uses objects, gestures, textures, and sounds to create a world where the female body is both a vessel and an active participant. Personal, yet global, narratives spoken by women reflect the UDHR’s articles, transforming testimonies into live installations that aim to hold space for both struggle and strength, while questioning how artistic practice can meaningfully engage with social realities.