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Réciprocité aims to share dance with everyone, to provide a transformative experience through dance, and to establish sustainable outreach projects within organizations in the social, educational, and health sectors.

Constellation est un dispositif d’EAC créé en 2018. Il permet aux jeunes de découvrir l’univers de la danse et de partager une expérience artistique à travers une question-thématique commune : « Comment j’habite mon corps par la danse ? ».

Caravane Kids est un dispositif d’EAC qui s’est déployé de 2018 à 2023 au sein d’établissements scolaires.

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.

Created in 2023, “360° History of Dance in a Day” is an arts and culture education program that is being implemented in elementary and middle schools.

IMAGINE est un dispositif de médiation adressé à des femmes de la Seine Saint-Denis, qui se saisit de la question du soin et des représentations du corps de la femme dans la société.

As part of a cultural twinning scheme with the priority neighbourhood of Horloge-Axe majeur in the town of Cergy (an initiative of the Île-de-France Regional Prefecture), the CN D has, over a three-year period, run a range of activities aimed at young people and local residents: the ‘Caravane Kids’ and ‘360°: Stories of Dance in a Day’ programmes in five primary schools, one lower secondary school and one upper secondary school; the ‘Assemblé pour des habitantes et habitants’ programme; career discovery days for 16–25-year-olds; initiatives with universities and higher education institutions; and audience development programmes. Resource-building and training initiatives were also organised in partnership with Visages du monde and the Cergy Dance Training Centre, including its ‘Cultural Ambassadors in Hip-Hop Dance’ course. After three years (2022–2024), the cultural twinning programme will come to an end. It will continue through initiatives with partners in Cergy with whom the CN D has developed long-term collaborations.

Le CN D propose un accueil particulier aux élèves des enseignements danse des lycées franciliens et nationaux ainsi qu’aux élèves des conservatoires.

For its first edition, À propos de danse (About Dance) will take place in Oyonnax between October 2025 and March 2026. The CN D and its partners are organizing a series of events at the Centre Culturel Aragon, including workshops, film screenings, an exhibition and a parade, concluding with a ball. With À propos de danse, the CN D is developing a new project around choreographic culture aimed at all audiences. Throughout the season, in collaboration with the media library of a selected region, the CN D invites audiences to explore the presence of dance as a common thread and offers various activities leading up to a festive and unifying event.

Over sixty high school students will follow a series of workshops and meetups around dance culture all year long in the Lyon CN D. This program is devised in connection with a selection of shows in the Maison de la danse de Lyon.