Since 2016, the CN D has been building up partnerships with various fields of higher education so as to encourage encounters between dance and other disciplines.
These projects are built up as a trio, with a teacher, a contributing artist and the team of the CN D. They thus adopt varied forms but have in common the effect of creating a sensitive reflexion, which is often new for students, about the relationship between their field of training, the body and gestures. These projects are based around various formats suited to each pathway: a practical phase with an artist, an outreach phase (research in the media centre, analysis of works) and cultural pathways (visits to exhibitions, shows, encounters with artists). These immersions at the CN D, and more specifically into the world of choreography, shift and nourish the students’ research by offering them new tools for analysis, observation and reflexion about their environment.
As well as these projects, two masters’ degrees (Dance and Literary Creation) at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis have benefited from a weekly residency at the CN D since the new academic year in 2017. This regular presence means being able to cross their time in lessons with all the activities we devote to dance: associate artists, resources, shows, archive collections, exhibitions, etc.
