AFCMD
Jazz & Baroque Dance: which music(s) for the body in motion?

Baroque dance, like jazz, is imbued with nuance and precision of gesture. Chiselled and hushed at the same time, these two seemingly distant aesthetics are both vibrant with musicality. Bringing them together aims to reveal their contrasts and technical similarities as much as their shared values. Alternating between script transmission and improvisation, we'll use AFCMD tools to analyze movement and momentum. How can we question and link, within these two aesthetics, the issues of mastery of the center, articular freedom and segmentation, dynamic contrasts and tonal modulations...? The aim is to draw on precise anatomical insights to experience the body states associated with these dances, which are as powerful as they are sensitive. Experimenting with the musical interplay of baroque and jazz (anacrusis, sense of pulse, swing, syncopation, relationship to strong and weak beats...) will enable you to savor their vitality, singularity and expressiveness, in the service of the dancer's interpretation. This workshop offers a sensitive experience of the fundamentals of these dances through the eyes of the AFCMD and a specific musical approach. This stylistic approach invites us to free the body's speech and musicality to find a common language that resonates in the present as much as it nourishes our individual and collective kinaesthetic memories.

Valène Roux Azy

Valène Roux Azy is a choreographic artist and graduate of the Cycle d'Enseignement Supérieur en Danse Jazz de Poitiers. Her solid, multi-faceted training has enabled her to multiply her experience and work contexts. A dancer-interpreter and assistant for choreographers of diverse aesthetics, she currently dances for the Cie Accord des Nous - ADN and the Cie Item. A jazz and tap dance teacher with a Certificat d'Aptitude, she is a trainer for the Diplôme d'Etat and works with various structures and training centers, giving technical classes and transmitting the jazz repertoire, including choreographies by Jack Cole, Matt Mattox and Bob Fosse. President and member of teaching juries at conservatories and for the Fédération Française de Danse, choreographer of the E.A.T. 2022 and 2023 variation, she also specializes in Functional Analysis of the Body in Danced Movement.

Robert Le Nuz

Dancer and teacher of classical dance, Robert Le Nuz explores Baroque dance through his encounters with numerous choreographers, including Marie-Geneviève Massé (Cie l'Eventail) and Françoise Denieau, for whom he is interpreter and assistant. He has taken part in some thirty Baroque productions (ballets, operas...), teaches this repertoire internationally (Sweden, Spain, USA...) and is actively involved in transmitting it to all audiences. Previously a physiotherapist, he has since specialized in Analyse Fonctionnelle du Corps dans le Mouvement Dansé and Wilfride Piollet's Barres Flexibles. He puts his body's knowledge and theory at the service of a dance and teaching style that values gravitational adjustment, the momentum of spirals and clarity of intention. He teaches AFCMD and anatomy at various artistic teaching establishments (École de Danse de l'Opéra National de Paris, CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt and Saint-Etienne), for DNSPD students at the CNSMD de Lyon, as well as for the Diplôme d'État de professeur de danse as a trainer (Pont Supérieur Nantes, CND Lyon, Faculté de Corte, Espace Pléiade Paris) and as a jury for the pedagogy and anatomy-physiology exams.