Training

Daily classes contemporary

Joanne Leighton

09 > 12.05.23

CN D Pantin

A choreographic practice which activates and engages the body by bringing together notions of dancing together, identity, contemporary rituals, in the most comprehensive and freest way possible.

Joanne Leighton

Australian-born Belgian choreographer and instructor Joanne Leighton was the director of the Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté from 2010 to 2015. Her company WLDN has been based in Île-de-France since 2015, and offers both on stage and off-stage work to a variety of audiences. Leighton was named Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2020, and she is very deeply committed to transmitting choreographic knowledge to younger generations; she teaches regularly and also gives workshops and talks frequently about her work in France and abroad.