21 > 25.10.24
CN D Pantin
Alice Davazoglou trained in dance at the Laon Conservatory. Since 2010, she has been following Nathalie Hervé’s workshops at ART21, an association she co-founded. She participated in a number of artistic and cultural education and training projects, and has been approved by the French Ministry of Education to work in schools. In 2021, she will co-lead a workshop at the CN D for mixed-gender professional performers on the issue of disability. She performed in Universalice (solo) by Nathalie Hervé, in ART21 pieces, in We Wonder by Xavier Lot and in De Françoise à Alice by Mickaël Phelippeau. She is the author of Je suis Alice Davazoglou/ Je suis trisomique normale mais ordinaire, published in 2020. For this project, she was awarded a CN D grant under the “Aide à la recherche et au patrimoine en danse” scheme. She is currently working on her first project as a choreographer, Danser ensemble.
Manon Carpentier trained with Madeleine Louarn with the Catalyse troupe, which she joined in 2017. Since then, she has taken part in all Madeleine Louarn’s creations with the professional company Entresort. In 2021, she joined the permanent professional troupe of the CNAC at the SEW cultural platform in Morlaix. Since 2021, she has worked with the Catalyse company, working with directors and choreographers such as Bernardo Montet, Maguy Marin, Mickaël Phelippeau, Volmir Cordeiro and Olivier Martin-Salvan. She takes part in numerous artistic and cultural education projects, training courses and workshops, the most recent of which took place in Seoul, Korea, during the tour of Gulliver, le dernier voyage at the Modu Theater in 2024. She performed in Le grand théâtre d’Oklahoma (2018), Opérette (2020) and Gulliver, le dernier voyage by Madeleine Louarn and Jean-François Auguste (2021), and Peplum Médieval by Olivier Martin-Salvan 2023. She also took part in the filming of Damien Manivel’s Les enfants d’Isadora (2019) and Nicolas Giuliani’s L’envoûtement (2023), broadcast on Arte.
After training in visual arts and dance, Mickaël Phelippeau worked as a performer with a number of choreographers, and from 2001 to 2008 with Clubdes5, a collective of dancers. Since 2003, he has focused his research primarily on the bi-portrait approach, a pretext for encounters. His choreographic works include Footballeuses, Mit Daudi, 22, Mini Chorus, Soli, Lou, Ben & Luc, Juste Heddy, 22 castors front contre front and De Françoise à Alice. Since 2010, Mickaël Phelippeau has been the artistic director of the À domicile event in Guissény, Brittany. Mickaël Phelippeau is a member of the Grand Ensemble de la scène nationale du Mans, Les Quinconces and L’Espal, a partner of La Filature – scène nationale de Mulhouse, and an associate artist with La Halle aux Grains, scène nationale de Blois.
Shared dance
“After a first workshop in the CN D in October 2022, which brought together disabled and non-disabled performers, we want to explore this work further. This second workshop will therefore be another opportunity for a choreographer with Down syndrome to lead a workshop in the CN D. The starting point of this workshop is to allow participants to share their experiences and to pursue certain lines of enquiry around the notion of a choreographic portrait. We interact, share tools, composition games which we both developed and discuss what is at stake choreographically in our reflection.”