The “campers” or participants in Camping are 70 students drawn from 5 art schools and training program in France and abroad, as well as 50 professional dancers attending this platform of workshops and discussions as individuals. Every day, the morning is set aside for the invited schools to teach classes that are open to all the participants.
La CinéFabrique
The CinéFabrique is a national film school that offers a free 3-year initial diploma course. It is located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and admission is granted through a national exam. With a keen concern for social diversity, it trains 35 students per annual cohort, with equal numbers of men and women, in five professions: scriptwriting, production, image, sound and editing. The CinéFabrique is a school of practice and of “doing things together”, where the governance structure largely involves students and professionals in the curricular orientations. The technical classes are overseen by nationally and internationally renowned professionals. More than 500 lead technicians have spoken at the school. It develops an experimental and innovative teaching method which enables students to acquire a technical and practical skillset to facilitate their entry into the professional world. It is the only school to offer a one-year work-study course in the film industry. Thanks to an open and non-discriminatory selection process, the school trains richly diverse groups of students.
Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon (CNSMD Lyon)
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The CNSMD Lyon approach is based on teaching excellence, innovative pedagogy and transversal creation. Under a new directorship since 2019, with an outstanding faculty, this open training program is full of vitality, enriched by its links to top visual and performing arts schools, a 6-university network (CHELS, Lyon 2) and the professional milieu. The CNSMD Lyon is committed to developing the autonomy and collaborative work of students supporting an annual student creation festival entirely produced and self-managed by the student dancers and musicians. Professional integration of dancers is favored with the CNSMD Lyon’s network of more than seventy partners, increasing artistic exchange possibilities – emerging technologies AI/VR/VR included – in a creative lab-campus environment. The course mobilizes the dance student’s newly-acquired knowledge via creative processes and exploration of repertory works with established and young avant-garde creators/choreographers. In addition to a strong technical and intellectual foundation, students develop a sense of artistic commitment and endurance. The final year of the 4-year cursus in contemporary and classical dance culminates in a Junior Ballet, at once a touring pre-professional company and a community.
École nationale de danse de Marseille
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The project of the École nationale de danse de Marseille (ENDM), directed by Omar Taïebi, offers student dancers dual training in classical and contemporary dance, in line with the new aesthetic expectations of today's choreographers and national and international companies. The ENDM has established close pedagogical relationships with higher education institutions (Paris, Lyon, Angers) and multiple artistic relationships. ENDM students have the opportunity to enhance their training thanks to a national and international choreographic network that includes Michel Kelemenis/KLAP, (LA)HORDE/Ballet national de Marseille, Ballet Julien Lestel, Ballet Angelin Preljocaj, Ballet Nice Méditerranée, Ballet de l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten/ICK Amsterdam. These contacts take the form of workshops, master classes, performances and company training courses. Through its original training course and its pedagogical and artistic network, the ENDM broadens the professional horizons of its students, who go on to join Master’s programmes, junior ballets and dance companies.
INSA Lyon – Institut national des sciences appliquées
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The Danse-Études section, created in 1991, is one of the five artistic sections of INSA Lyon, along with Musique-Études (1984), Arts-Plastiques-Études (1987), Théâtre-Études (1991) and Cinéma-Études (2019). A cultural service (1991) is at the intersection of these different sections. The Danse-Études section aims to develop the student's artistic and cultural skills through contact with professionals in the dance world. A 4-year training program is offered, combining dance theory and practice (6 to 18 hours of dance per week). The section participates in the training of humanistic and innovative engineers, open to creative imagination and contemporary creation. It is defined as a space that develops creativity, innovation and artistic sensitivity. It is willing to be a space where the questions raised by scientists and artists come together. The objective of the section is to give the opportunity to engineering students to experiment the creative process in dance : by confronting them with different artistic worlds and aesthetics; by giving them access to the processes of creation, composition and improvisation; by implementing their physical potential. The Danse-Études section, initially sponsored by Maurice Béjart, has the support of Dominique Hervieu, director of the Maison de la Danse, choreographer and performing artist. Dance training within the school is enriched by associative practices: we can count on the dance section of the sports association of the sports center supervised by a teacher and student associations which allow a wide influence of dance on the Lyon tech La Doua campus.
University of California – Santa Cruz
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The Dance program at University of California, Santa Cruz (a minority-serving, public research institution) focuses on the student's individual growth within the spectrum of dance and performance practices and a general humanities education. The technical training is intensive, but not at the expense of an immersive experience in a university environment. The program does not aim to mold students into any of the systems of dance which survive from strong individual artistic legacies. Instead, it aims to provide students with the means to recognize the formation of a variety of performance styles, to contextualize the uses of dance and movement outside the area of performance, and to develop their own choices in forming a personal style, liberating them to choose the paths they wish to follow. The dance curriculum values foundational work in physiologically correct movement principles and mechanics; conscious use of the craft of movement for the realization of personal intentions in performance and choreography; and understanding of a wide variety of approaches to dance performance, history, and ethnology. Since 2012, the UCSC Theater Arts Department has been able to offer a Dance minor, for students interested in deepening their dance training and education.