Christine Bayle-L’Éclat des muses Collection
The archives of Christine Bayle (1946-), dancer, actress and choreographer specializing in early Renaissance and Baroque dances, reflect the artist's work as a dancer, notably alongside Francine Lancelot in the Ris et danceries company she joined in 1977, then as a choreographer with her companies L'Éclat des muses (founded in 1983) and Belles dances (from 2013). In addition to traces of her performances, the archives contain paper archives (work notes, programs, press articles, etc.) and audiovisual archives (around one hundred video documents) concerning other activities, such as her lectures and dance conferences, and her research into ancient dance treatises.
Catherine Contour Collection
The collection gathering documents pertaining to French choreographer and teacher Catherine Contour (1960-) (whose work includes a strong research and transmission dimension in close dialogue with other fields and cultures, and in particular around the hypnotic technique) is made up of artistic archives concerning many of her choreographic pieces created between 1986 and 2013, within the association KOB then 40Neuf. It also features collaborations with other artists or research-exploration laboratories: preparatory notes and sketches, visual traces, communication documents, testimonials from personalities associated with the creative process or invited to report on it, teaching proposals and associated publishing projects, administrative documents.
Suzon Holzer Collection
This collection of archives (photographs, videos, notes and drawings, programs) connected to the artistic career of Swiss-born dancer, choreographer and teacher Suzon Holzer (1939-2024) traces her principal creations from the 1970’s – when she created pieces for Karin Waehner's Ballets contemporains and Françoise and Dominique Dupuy's Ballets modernes de Paris – to the 2000’s, when she prolonged her artistic collaborations with artists such as Nathalie Collantes.
Emmanuelle Huynh-Plateforme Múa Collection
The archives of dancer, choreographer and teacher Emmanuelle Huynh (1963-), currently in the process of being transferred to the CN D, gather a selection of pieces (from Múa [1995] to Hô nhay múa, danser Hô une indépen danse [2024]) and performances that were important in her career. These textual and video archives reveal her idiosyncratic way of searching for material and collaborating with others, and include the primary sources of her work – texts, quotations, reading notes, images and other external contributions – as well as numerous rehearsal notes or verbatim accounts from performers, and visual traces of the works. Added to these documents are archives linked to the operation of Plateforme Múa and the dissemination of the pieces.
Annette Leday-compagnie Keli Collection
The archives document the training of French dancer, choreographer and translator Annette Leday (1951-), who, after gaining experience in the Paris theater scene (notebooks on physical theater), devoted ten years to the study of classical bharata natyam and kathakali dance in India (photographs of performances, notebooks on the kathakali dance theater repertoire between 1978 and 1984). In addition, the collection retraces the creation of the choreographer's pieces with her company Keli, from 1983 onwards, and her pioneering approach to intercultural contemporary creation with Indian and Western performers, as in her piece Kathakali-King Lear, which premiered in 1989 and was revived in 2019 (photographs, videos of research workshops, preparatory documents, technical documents, programs, posters, press, soundtracks and videos of performances). It offers a wealth of documentation on Kathakali and other ethnographic practices in Kerala, as well as Annette Leday's publications.
Serge Ricci Collection
The archive (photographs and videos of performances, files on pieces, texts and other documents) relating to dancer and choreographer Serge Ricci documents twenty years (1994-2014) of creation and the activities of his company, Mi-Octobre, within which he developed numerous projects, alone or in collaboration with other artists, both in theaters and in public or natural spaces, according to his various residencies.
Luc Riolon Collection
The audiovisual archives deposited by French documentary and dance film director Luc Riolon (1959-) include his productions, performance recordings, fictions or recreations and documentary films about dance (i.e. around two hundred items covering some one hundred projects produced between 1986 and 2025). They all testify to his faithful collaboration with choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Marie-Geneviève Massé, Angelin Preljocaj and Mark Tompkins.
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Régis Huvier Collection
The collection retraces the choreographic work of dancer Régis Huvier (1966-1995); it is destined to be enriched by other contributions, and includes some forty video and sound documents, as well as a collection of diaries, photographs, press clippings, distribution and administrative documents, preserved and entrusted to the CN D by Christine Corday and Séverine Bost, who used to work with Huvier in his company L'Arrache-cœur.
Lari Leong Collection
This collection, donated by Marc Lawton, includes many photographs and press clippings, as well as posters, communication documents and a few video recordings. It documents the career of Chinese-born Malay dancer Lari Leong (1950-1992), from his modeling and fashion design years in London and elsewhere, to his personal choreographic creations presented mainly in France and Malaysia, and it also includes his career as a performer at BTC (Nancy) and Théâtre du Silence, and his collaboration with Carolyn Carlson. The collection also contains various personal papers, drawings and ink sketches by Leong’s own hand.
Entre cour et jardins Collection
In addition to a large number of digital media containing operating data and audiovisual traces of projects, this substantial collection, which covers the activities of the association created by Frédéric Bonnemaison between 1999 and 2017, includes various posters and communication documents relating to the different editions of the festival, programming files (documentation on the works and companies, photos), as well as important administrative archives providing an understanding of the framework of the association’s activities and its links with the local area.
Marie-Geneviève Massé – Compagnie de Danse l’Éventail Collection
This collection is composed of M.-G. Massé’s original choreographic notebooks, costume patterns and sketches, photos and videos, press clippings and programs, communication media and administrative archives, documenting 40 years of existence of the Compagnie de Danse l'Éventail (1984-2024): original choreographic pieces, choreographies for operas, comedy-ballets, collaborations with conductors and stage directors, applied research on the 18th-century choreographic corpus, etc.
A.I.M.E. – Julie Nioche Collection
These archives retrace Julie Nioche’s career, first as a performer for several choreographers, then as a choreographer herself within the Fin Novembre company and finally within the A.I.M.E. company (Association d'Individus en Mouvements Engagés) created in 2005. It includes audiovisual documents, creative notes, working papers, project reports and workshop records, which document the company’s choreographic creations, in situ projects and the company’s specific interventions in the fields of social, medical and educational work.
Mark Franko Collection
The archives of dancer and historian Mark Franko include institutional files relating to his functions and activities in several North American universities and research institutes, as well as professional organizations of dance researchers; files on his numerous publications and lectures, a collection of sources and research materials (including twenty audiotapes of interviews for the book Excursion for Miracles, notably with Paul Sanasardo and Donya Feuer), and extensive personal and professional correspondence. His creative activities are also extensively documented, notably the choreographies created within the NovAntiqua Dance Company (notebooks, photographs and audiovisual recordings).
Marc Guiraud-Association Transit Collection
Marc Guiraud founded La Danse Singulière in the 1970’s as part of the Transit Association in Bordeaux, inviting people to explore their own existence through dance. He is a regular contributor to various art and therapy training structures, and is in charge of training at the Institut Régional du Travail Social d'Aquitaine. This first archival deposit brings together his writings from 1970 to 2008, which are grouped around three themes: the use of the body in dance, a plural approach to the language of clothing in connection with performances with visual artist Aline Ribière, and writings relating to pedagogy, psychosociology and animation.
Artefact Collection
The archives of this company, founded by Jeannette Dumeix and Marc Vincent in 1983, contain audiovisual documents, creative notes, schedules and other working documents, press articles, distribution and administrative documents, which all reflect the 15 years of joint creation and reflection between the two artists. This collection is completed by archives specific to each choreographer from 1999 onwards, collected in a Marc Vincent-Artefactdanse collection and a Jeannette Dumeix-Artefact-labo collection.
Thérèse Barbanel collection
Thérèse Barbanel was head of distribution from 1970 to 2010 at Art service international and then at her own company Les Artscéniques; the Barbanel Collection includes extensive documentation (videos, programs, press, administrative documents) on the companies and artists she worked with, like Trisha Brown, Douglas Dunn, Meredith Monk, Lia Rodrigues, Eva Lundquist and Boyzie Cekwana.
Marianne Filloux-Vigreux Collection
This collection brings together a set of working documents and sources relating to the writing of Marianne Filloux-Vigreux’s PhD dissertation on “Dance and the institution: the genesis and the first steps of a dance policy in France from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. The PACA region as a case in point” (« la danse et l'institution : genèse et premiers pas d'une politique de la danse en France du début des années 1970 au début des années 1990. L'exemple de la région PACA »), which she defended in 2000 at the University of Paris I.
Marc Domage Collection
This first deposit of Marc Domage’s archives (around 35,000 digital images and 650 negatives of analog photos) concerns his collaboration with the CN D (photographs of shows, exhibitions and highlights), and his special work with artists such as Antonia Baehr, Fanny de Chaillé, Vincent Dupont, Deborah Hay and the Quatuor Knust.