CampingAmateurs

Workshops
for non-professionals

Jean-Luc Verna

22.06.21 — 18:30

CN D Pantin

For the two weeks of Camping, the Studio 12 of the CN D is being transformed into an ephemeral studio where dance enthusiasts can attend a workshop led by six guest chore-ographers free of charge. A unique opportunity for members ot the public to dance with internationally famous choreographers!

A graduate of the Villa Arson, Jean-Luc Verna lives and works in Paris. A protean artist (whose production encompasses drawing, photography, ceramics, sculpture and performance), his works have been acquired by major public and private collections (MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, etc.). He has been a dancer for Gisèle Vienne and an onlooker for Crowd. He played an actress in Brice Dellsperger’s Body double film series as well as making a cinema appearance in a film by Patrick Chiha. He has also performed in theatre, namely in Paul Desvaux’s staging of Diane Arbus Self Portrait, as well as being the lead singer of the bands I Apologize and Jukebox Babe. He also sang with Jonathan Capdevielle and Jérôme Marin on their cabarets. He is an author and director (Carcasse), the choreographer of his company SATB (whose most recent production is Uccello, Uccellacci and The Birds). Jean-Luc Verna has been represented by the Air de Paris gallery for over thirty years and he teaches drawing at the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy.