Residency
5.01 > 27.03.26
Clarissa Sacchelli
3.04 > 25.06.26
Florette Gateka
The "Centre national de la danse x Cité internationale des arts" residency is for choreographers working and living outside of France. The objective of this residency is to promote the mobility of professionals and to enlarge their network.
For the choreographer, it is an opportunity to make their work known in France and to feed their research.
With this program, the Centre national de la danse and the Cité internationale des arts are committed to supporting the project of each laureate by allowing him/her to benefit from a privileged accompaniment and a three-month residency in Paris and Pantin
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The residency
The winner benefits from :
- A three-month artistic residency, either from January to March 2025 or from March to May 2025, at the Cité internationale des arts, in a studio/living space composed of a work space and a furnished living space (bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, wifi Internet connection), located in the heart of Paris.
- Studio time/work space at the Centre national de la danse in Pantin, located northeast of Paris.
- A privileged artistic and professional accompaniment: access to the networks and documentary resources of both partners.
This program includes :
- International transportation to and from Paris, with VISA and travel insurance.
- A living allowance of € 1,000 per month.
- A production grant of € 1,500.
- A time of restitution whose format will be defined according to the project of the laureate.
Clarissa Sachelli
Based in São Paulo, Clarissa Sacchelli is a Brazilian artist working across dance. Her practice unfolds through performances, writing, and educational activities, particularly bringing choreography as a way to experiment and think through what happens on both a kinaesthetic and a sociopolitical level. Drawing on feminist and queer perspectives, her projects have been shaped by the friction that emerges when distinct archives, memories and temporalities are set into contact.
She holds an MA in Dance from Trinity Laban (UK) and a postgraduate diploma in Semiotics from PUC-SP (Brazil). Her work has been shown in venues and festivals in Brazil and abroad, as well as supported by different awards, grants, and fellowships, such as: K3 Tanzplan Hamburg Residency Programme / Kampnagel (2021-2022, Germany); Videobrasil Dance Season (2017, Brazil); Rumos Dança (2012-2014, Brazil). She performed in works by Eszter Salamon, João dos Santos Martins, William Pope.L, Tino Sehgal, Cristian Duarte, Bruno Levorin, Renan Marcondes, Cláudia Müller, among others.
During the Cité internationale des arts x CN D residency, Clarissa is investigating how one might move through multiple directions at once, approaching multi-directionality not as a site of crisis but as a sophisticated body technology of resistance. The research unfolds through body practices and archival research, bringing French Baroque dance and a constellation of South American social dances into contact, exploring how these dissonant archives resonate and might open space for other perspectives to emerge.
Florette Gateka
Burundian performer and movement artist. Her career has been shaped by a blend of traditional, urban and contemporary dance styles. She began dancing in Burundi before joining and graduating from the École des Sables in Senegal. Her work explores the body as a territory of memory and metamorphosis, developing a unique language based on the "dislocation of the body", where tradition and modernity meet and transform each other.
Ina-Rugamba is not a fixed character, but a figure in the making, embodying women who are forging their identities amid social and cultural contradictions. Je deviens Ina-Rugamba is a choreographic journey that explores the place of women in a changing world full of contradictions, between inner transformation and resilience. The piece does not reject tradition; it engages with it and shifts it. She speaks of the desire to fully inhabit one's identity without allowing oneself to be confined by it. It is a solo piece about transformation, a space where the body undergoes a transition between what has been passed on to it and what it chooses to become.