Canal 2026 in Vitry-sur-Seine

10 French dance institutions and 6 from the Balkans (Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia) gather together in La briqueterie CDCN, MAC VAL, Théâtre Jean Vilar and cnd.fr to present the work of the 32 artistic teams they are currently supporting: performances, discussions, workshops, debates, screenings.

By launching Canal, the CN D is offering to make its resources available to the choreography sector. For two days, La briqueterie CDCN, MAC VAL and Théâtre Jean Vilar will be taken over by invited cultural institutions (CCN, CDCN, subsidised and national theatres, festivals, etc.). Since 2020, Canal has also been inviting international organisations; this year, the Balkans are in the spotlight. The idea is to offer, in a shared space and time, new visibility to projects (short excerpts, screenings, oral presentations, etc.) and the artists they support. Canal creates spaces for exchange between artists and professional audiences.

In 2026, Canal is evolving and adopting a new format: registration will have to be done on predefined routes to ensure that each location is visited.

French institutions

Touka Danses – CDCN de Guyane  
with Gladys Demba and Mark Behary-Laul-Sirder

Le Phare – CCN du Havre Normandie 
with Charlotte Rousseau and Jade Lada

La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie 
with Emilie Labédan and Andrea Givanovitch 

Danse Dense
with Collectif Les Idoles and Simon et David Le Borgne 

Maison de la danse – Lyon 
with Nicolas Barry and Carmel Loanga 

Scène nationale de l'Essonne – Évry 
with Adriano Dafy and Solène Wachter 

CCN d’Orléans – Collectif Ès 
with Joachim Maudet and Elsa Dumontel 

Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis 
with Philippe Lebhar and Suzanne Henry

Les 3T – Châtellerault 
with Michel Schweizer and Collectif Bilaka 

MAC de Créteil 
with Sarah Baltzinger and Isaiah Wilson and Alexander Vantournhout 

International Institutions and Structures

with the Institut Français in Greece, the Institut Français in Serbia, Teatroskop and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Paris

Onassis Stegi – Athens, Greece
with Chara Kotsali and Ioanna Paraskevopoulou 

Epidaure Athens Festival – Greece
with Ioanna Portolou and Konstantinos Papanikolaou 

Kalamata International Dance Festival – Greece
with Nancy Stamatopoulou and Mary & Evangelia Rantou 

Bunker / Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia / En-Knap – Slovenia
with Petja Golec Horvat and Jan Rozman 

Derida Dance Center / International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance Antistatic – Bulgaria
with Jivko Jeliazkov and Iva Sveshtarova et Willy Prager 

Lokomotiva – North Macedonia
with Tereza Lazarev and Viktorija Ilioska 

Meetings 

International touring and cooperation

Moderated by Milica Ilic 
at the MAC VAL - Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne

Thursday 29.01 / 11:00-12:30 

How can we approach the challenges of international touring today within a framework of responsible and supportive cooperation?
moderated by Milica Ilic, with Lenio Kaklea, Marion Gauvent et Marie Le Sourd

Friday 30.01 / 11:00-12:30 

What are the distinctive features of the choreographic ecosystem in the Balkans, as highlighted by the accounts of the organisations and artists invited to Canal?
moderated by Milica Ilic, with Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski, Teja Reba, Aristea Charalampidou, Marijana Cvetković, Zrinka Užbinec et Atanas Maev.