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15 Amateur Workshops

06 & 07.10.18

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Decouflé’s repertory
6 & 7.10 / 2pm
By Clémence Galliard

After training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, Merce Cunningham’s studio in New York and the Ex.e.r.ce at the CCN in Montpellier, Clémence Galliard has danced, among others, for Pierre Droulers, Fabrice Lambert, David Wampach or else Xavier Le Roy and, since 2006, more particularly for Philippe Decouflé’s Compagnie DCA in Sombrero then Octopus and Contact. It is this experience that she is going to share during a workshop where she will transmit the pleasure of dancing, a fantasy and a form of creative freedom which are particular to this company.

 

Voguing
6 & 7.10 / 2pm
By Lasseindra

Born in Harlem in the 1960s, voguing is more than just a dance style, it is a genuine culture which has developed in the American black and gay community, popularised by Madonna’s song Vogue and the famous documentary Paris is Burning. The dancers, coming together in balls, reproduce the poses of models in magazines and fashion shows. Voguing is practised in three different categories: old way, new way and vogue fem. Voguing does not just mean knowing how to dance, but also how to shine before an audience.

 

Afro-Brazilian dances
6 & 7.10 / 2pm
By Timbó Washington

A Brazilian dancer, teacher and choreographer, Timbó Washington offers a work based around traditional Afro-Brazilian dances, inspired from the movements of the orishas, Afro-American spirits, originally from Africa, and their bonds with natural elements. These dances are handed down so to raise awareness of the body and movement, and the connection between the earth and the heavens, through the rhythms of percussion and song. The participants are led to finding new qualities in movement while giving free reign to their personal interpretations.

 

Break
6 & 7.10 / 4pm
By Valentine Nagata Ramos

An internationally renowned breakdancer, Valentine Nagata Ramos rose to prominence in the underground milieu of b-boying, and has danced for such companies as Black Blanc Beur, Montalvo/ Hervieu or else Par Terre. She has conducted a career between “battles”, creations with her own company, Uzumaki, and transmission to a new generation. Appropriating the characteristic steps, rhythms and moves of breakdancing involves not just understanding that the body can be stretched, curved, turned or made to leap, but also to grasp that the creation of movement can be endless.


Coupé-Décalé
6 & 7.10 / 4pm
By Ordinateur

A dancer-choreographer of Coupé-Décalé, named as the best dancer of the Ivory Coast in 2016, and known under his stage name Ordinateur, Magic Feet offers an approach to this Ivorian musical and choreographic genre, which has been highly fashionable since the early 2000s, and which allies well-established choreographies, dress fashions and values. It is a ludic dance form that allows dancers to communicate quickly through certain key gestures, with each song alluding to a specific concept or move.

 

Baroque
6 & 7.10 / 4pm
By Béatrice Massin

In 1993, Béatrice Massin founded the company Fêtes Galantes. With it, she refined her specific approach based on baroque materials, mingling baroque and contemporary dance in her creations: Que ma joie demeure, Songes, Un air de Folies, Terpsichore, Mass b, Quatre-Un, Fata Morgana… while always trying to increase the fields of the possible in her research. For her, teaching is part and parcel of this approach. The sharing of her expertise means being able to approach the pleasure of this dance with everyone.

 

Latin dances
6 & 7.10 / 4pm
By Michel Koenig & Lydie Folletti

Lydie Folletti is champion of France in Latin dances, standard dances and in ten other dances, under the amateur category. Michel Koenig, specialises in the teaching of Latin dances and is a former high-level competitor who represented France in the greatest international competitions. Together, they founded the Feeling Dance Factory and through this workshop offer a discovery of the cha-cha, samba or else the pasodoble.

 

Tap-dancing
6 & 7.10 / 4pm
By Victor Cuno

A dancer, pianist, composer and choreographer, Victor Cuno has taught tap-dancing in Paris and throughout Europe for over twenty years. During this workshop, he invites us to discover tap-dancing using simple steps that ally rhythm and movement for the pleasure of tapping your feet to music. The lessons are accompanied on the piano by Victor Cuno and tap-dancing shoes are put at the disposal of the participants.

 

African dances
6 & 7.10 / 4pm
By Jean-Paul Mehansio

A dancer and choreographer born in Ivory Coast, Jean-Paul Mehansio has in particular danced for Olivier Dubois, Jean Claude Galotta, George Momboye and Salia Sanou. His work focuses in part on the traditional dances of Western Africa – doundounba, temate, bolo super, boloye, abodan or else gbégbé. In this workshop, he provides the chance to appropriate them, become familiar with their different rhythms, and then remove them from their specific musical setting by breaking free from the original rhythm, the repetition of steps, energy, and the scale of movements.

 

Cabaret
6 & 7.10 / 2pm & 4pm
By Jérôme Marin

In 2001, Jérôme Marin invented the foundational character of Monsieur K for projects based on cabaret. He has worked with Tom de Pekin, François Chaignaud, Daniel Larrieu or else Jonathan Capdevielle, thus renewing this nocturnal world of songs, numbers, fantasies and transvestism, which experienced a fresh élan with the reopening of Madame Arthur’s cabaret in 2015. By researching each person’s imaginary, crossing through genres and distorting aesthetics – and disciplines – the participants in the workshop will construct their cabaret “characters” and place them in situations.

 

Yoga
6 & 7.10 / 4pm
By Myriam Gourfink

The breathing techniques of yoga lie behind Myriam Gourfink’s approach. Guided by breath, the organisation of fulcrums is very precise, while the awareness of space remains minor. Dance becomes slow, dense, set in a continuous time. The apprenticeship that the choreographer offers in this workshop guides its participants towards a very fine perception of their sensations and respiration, in a dance “guided by the elasticity of breathing movements”.

 

Dances and song
6 & 7.10 / 2pm
By Dalila Khatir

Imagining, feeling and finding our own resonance, constituting a sonic group and developing a voice in improvisation, a musical setting in space and movement. A workshop articulated around the voice and the body which will take place in three steps: a warm-up mixing vocal and bodily games, improvisations and a vocal writing laboratory linked to the body.

 

Jazz / Musical comedy
6 & 7.10 / 4pm
By Rick Odums

On Sunday, Rick Odums, who has appeared on the greatest Broadway stages, is offering a discovery of the world of musical comedies!

 

Jazz / Cabaret
6.10 / 2pm
By Rick Odums

Trained in particular by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Company and the Dance Theater of Harlem, as well as on the greatest Broadway stages, Rick Odums offers a tonic, joyful and generous approach to jazz dances. Based on the Afro-African origins of jazz and inspired by its main lines of heritage, such as Patsy Swayze and Frank Hatchett, he will communicate to the participants the essentials of a jazz vocabulary.
 

Soul Train
7.10 / 2pm & 4pm
By Marie Houdin

Created in 1970, the famous television show Soul Train made thousands of people dance to the rhythms of black American culture: soul, jazz, rhythm ’n’ blues, disco, or rap. In the Soul Train Line, two ranks of dancers form a corridor inside which funky dances are improvised. Marie Houdin, from the Engrenage company, provides an initiation to Soul Train while teaching how to carry out the diagonals of grands jetés, while letting ourselves go to funk music, trying out old-school hip-hop moves, walking with a dangling head, and above all improvising!

And, free admission for:
Activation of Re:Rosas!
6.10
17:30 > 20:00