The “campers” or participants in Camping are 50 students drawn from 5 art schools, 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.
Le Conservatoire national
supérieur musique et danse de Lyon (CNSMDL)
cnsmd-lyon.fr
The CNSMDL adopts a project-based approach taught by an outstanding team of teachers. This open training programme is enriched by links with grandes écoles, the university and the professional milieu. The CNSMDL focuses in particular on preparing students for the professional world, aided by a network of more than seventy partners, increasing interaction and artistic exchange in a campus environment. The fourth and final year of the contemporary and classical dance course culminates with the Jeune Ballet, which provides a foretaste of students’ professional career. It enables young dancers, who work with established choreographers and young talents, to use the knowledge they have acquired to begin exploring creation and the repertoire.
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (ENSBAL)
Founded in 1805, and in its new home of Subsistances since 2007, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon is a state school for higher artistic education, approved by the Ministry of Culture. Conceived as a research and experimental laboratory, intentionally open to contemporary artistic realities, its vocation is to train artists, designers and creators. Attentive to current creative forms and issues, it aims more generally to bring out singular talents and produce the right conditions for a high-level professionalism in the field of art, design and creation. Welcoming three hundred students, ENSBA Lyon provides major options which structure the field of artistic teaching in France, with several courses in art and design. The students and artists of ENSBA, who are participating in Camping, come from the research group Post Performance Future. This group examines labelling, that is to say the a priori naming of a series of practices associated with the body, action, movement and language, which have emerged in the 21st century. Its training programmes are spread out over two cycles: an initial cycle leading to a DNA (diplôme national d’arts) in art, spatial design, graphic design and textile design; and a second cycle leading to a DNSEP (diplôme national supérieur d’expression plastique) – a master’s in art, graphic design or spatial design. The school also offers an international post-diploma aimed at young artists and a third cycle for young researchers and artist-researchers, structured around three research units: ACTH, devoted to the articulation between contemporary art and historical time, Post-Performance Future, and a digital unit, devoted to the contemporary aesthetic challenges raised by digital cultures.
École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du Théâtre, Lyon (ENSATT)
Every year, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (ENSATT) welcomes almost two hundred students for initial training, and trainees in annual advanced training, seventy to eighty professionals in advanced training, as well as foreign or Erasmus students. There are courses in the acting profession, live performance administration, costume conception, light conception, sound conception, costume-design with cutting or production options and stage direction, technical direction, playwrighting, stage direction and scenography. Thanks to its equipment – set and costume workshops, two working theatres and an amphitheatre, a sound studio, rehearsal rooms etc. – this school is the only one in Europe to provide teaching covering all of the forms of knowhow linked to theatrical creation. The presence, under the same roof, of all the stage professions, allows for the setting up of laboratories, trials, hypotheses, fictional projects and performance workshops, entrusted to professional stage directors, invited to lead an artistic project conceived and produced at the ENSATT, and presented to audiences at the school, or on tour. Accessible through an entry exam, the teaching at the ENSATT leads to a master’s degree for seven of its courses, a general degree and a professional degree in partnership with the University Lyon 2 for another two, and a specialised master’s in partnership with INSA for yet another.
La Manufacture – Haute école des arts de la scène,
Lausanne
A veritable ‘laboratory school’, the Manufacture offers young artists a space to create and experiment, enabling them to acquire and develop the basics of their profession while exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of contemporary artistic creation. Basic knowledge and skills are instilled through modular training courses, seminars and practical and experimental workshops led by professionals famous on the international scene. Oriented towards practice and creativity, the Bachelor of Contemporary Dance, creative option, enables students to familiarise themselves with numerous choreographic languages, meet renowned personalities from teaching and the professional milieu and to develop their own artistic creativity.
University of the Arts – School of Dance, Philadelphie (UARTS)
The training provided by the School of Dance at the Philadelphia University of the Arts encourages students to take risks and discover themselves in order to become artists and express their uniqueness. The programme asks them to develop the ability to think critically and build their identity as artists. They are incited to reveal themselves as committed individuals whose choreographic practice is a testimony to both great skill and the authenticity of their intention and ambition. While pursuing a pedagogy that interweaves practice, theory and the development of critical thinking, the school is also highly active in collaborations and exchanges on both undergraduate and MFA levels.