Landscaping

18 trainees maximum

• Develop interpretive and creative skills.
• Provide tools for stage composition based on improvisation, movement, imagery, and/or narrative.
• Define the relationship between individuality and the collective in collaborative writing.
• Explore stage presence in its visible and invisible dimensions (silence, off-stage, withdrawal).

This workshop explores the act of dance as a space where the gaze flows, where bodies are lines, volumes, and ever-changing images. In his work, Christian Rizzo examines the connection between choreography and the visual arts, and explores the landscape as a sensitive relationship between movement and perception. Over the course of three days, Christian Rizzo invites participants to experiment with slowness, attention, and collective compositions to create living architectures. Between appearance and disappearance, let us explore dance as a fragile inscription of a mental landscape that is ever-inhabited.

Through this workshop, Christian invites artists to share a research process based on improvisation, real-time composition, and the writing of scores. This work of attention explores the tensions between narrative and abstraction, the individual and the collective, as well as the role of gesture as a living, sensitive material. The concept of landscape plays an essential role in this research: whether interior, collective, or scenic, it is constructed through bodies, movements, silences, and relationships to space. The research does not aim for a spectacular form, but rather the creation of a space of presence where gazes, listening, and movements contribute to a shared dramaturgy. Gesture becomes a trace, a memory, a sensation, or a fragment of narrative, and enters into dialogue with the invisible.

Drawing on personal materials—memories, images, sensations—participants will develop a form of expression that lies at the intersection of dance, performance, and living installation, in constant interaction with other bodies, space, and time.

• Composition based on mental or visual images (provided or suggested).
• Alternating between individual and group exploration.
• Improvisation frameworks that encourage the development of a unique artistic language.
• Structured improvisations (solo, in pairs, in groups).

Trainee

Christian Rizzo

Christian Rizzo lives and works between Toulouse and Aspet. He made his “artistic” debut in a rock band and launched a clothing brand before studying visual arts at the Villa Arson and unexpectedly switching to dance. In the 1990s and 2000s, he performed with numerous European choreographers, occasionally also composing soundtracks or designing costumes. In 1996, he founded the association “Fragile” and created performances, installations, and solo and group pieces, alternating these with commissions for opera, fashion, and the visual arts. From 2015 to 2024, he directed the CCN in Montpellier. Renamed “ICI,” he fostered a cross-disciplinary vision of creation and training there, envisioning it as a forward-looking space that encompasses, in a single movement, both the creation of choreographic movement and the ways in which it is shared with the public. Since January 2025, he has revived the association “Fragile,” now based in the village of Aspet in the heart of the Comminges region in the Pyrenees. As a choreographer, visual artist, and curator, he relentlessly explores the elasticity and tension between bodies and space in narratives where the fictional emerges from abstraction—and vice versa.  

Christian Rizzo is an associate artist at the CN D in 2025 and 2026.

€600 for individuals receiving coverage

€250 for individuals not receiving coverage

• Fill out the online form and submit it along with a resume. 
  Application deadline: October 9, 2026
   
• Applications are reviewed in the order they are received and based on the consistency of the applicant’s background, if there are any prerequisites.
• If you are applying for financial assistance, please allow extra time and contact the administrative office for help in preparing your application (AFDAS, France Travail, Adami, etc.). 
  Your registration will be complete once your application has been approved and your payment has been received.

• Continuous evaluation is conducted throughout the training, accompanied by a personal evaluation at the beginning and end of the training.
• A certificate of completion is issued to each participant at the end of the training.

from 10.20 to 10.22, 2026 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm