Including people with disabilities in dance projects: creation, pedagogy, mediation

The course, aimed at choreographic artists, choreographers, dance project managers, dance mediators and dance teachers, will address the issues involved in including people with disabilities in their projects: The aim will be to learn how to build an inclusive working space, using knowledge of disability, related legislation and support and assistance mechanisms; to adapt choreographic and teaching practices to accommodate people with disabilities in a dance project; to use the AFCMD tools to analyse movement. 

Odile Cazes-Laurent

Odile Cazes-Laurent is a choreographic artist, AFCMD graduate, CA teacher in contemporary dance, holder of a university diploma in neuropsychology of learning disorders, Ehrenfried Holistic Gymnastics Practitioner and state-qualified psychomotricist. As a performer, choreographer and teacher, Odile Cazes-Laurent has enriched her experience in contemporary dance by training in functional analysis of the body in danced movement (AFCMD) with Hubert Godard. This body of knowledge, supplemented by her knowledge of somatic techniques (Ehrenfried holistic gymnastics) and psychomotor therapy, has encouraged her to develop a practical and reflective experience of the person in movement, from a holistic perspective. For several years now, she has been developing a training programme for healthcare professionals (osteopaths, psychomotor therapists) based on the healing gesture and danced movement, with the aim of forging links between physical commitment, psychological experience and creative thought. She teaches AFCMD at the Centre de Formation Professionnelle Danse Mouvance (Isle Sur Sorgue) and holistic gymnastics in courses. 

Sarah Minsky

Sarah Minsky is an occupational psychologist and Head of Career Support at Audiens. An expert in the field of advice, guidance and career support for 25 years, with in-depth knowledge of the cultural sectors, Sarah Minsky is in charge of the career support section of the Fonds de Professionnalisation et de Solidarité scheme for artists and technicians in the entertainment industry and heads up the Mission Handicap du Spectacle Vivant et Enregistrement (Disability Mission for the Live and Recorded Entertainment Industry): supporting companies in meeting their employment obligations (recruitment, maintaining employment, etc.) and monitoring employees facing health problems. 

Pascal Parsat

In 1993, Pascal Parsat set up the Centre Recherche Théâtre Handicap (now Souffleurs de Sens), where he developed innovations to promote access to works of art, employment in the cultural professions, EAC and artistic creation, including Vol de Nuit in 2007, considered by the Halde to be an exemplary reference. Between 2010 and 2023, he was disability coordinator and referent for the Paris Conservatoire network. Since 2016, he has been an expert on disability in culture for Audiens. Between 2019 and 2022, he was appointed Culture & Disability Expert for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee. In 2023, Fadila Khattabi, the French Minister for the Disabled, appointed him to the National Commission on Culture and Disability. 

Geneviève Pernin

Geneviève Pernin est artiste chorégraphique, professeure diplômée d’État en danse contemporaine et certifiée en tant que référente handicap. Interprète depuis vingt-cinq ans pour plusieurs compagnies de danse contemporaine (O. Duboc, O. Cazes, F. Girardon, Paul les Oiseaux, P. Richtarch-Castellani…), Geneviève Pernin a créé, à Besançon, la Cie BRRFTTTT, qui compte aujourd'hui une douzaine de créations scéniques et la réalisation de six films de danse. Durant quinze ans, elle a notamment proposé des soli de danse dans des chambres d’hôpitaux. Ce travail a donné lieu en 2013 à la publication du livre Un même moment d'existence, paru aux éditions Médiapop. Son travail de création s’entremêle avec son travail de transmission auprès de publics jeunes et moins jeunes, amateurs ou professionnels, en situation de handicap… Elle enseigne notamment la danse contemporaine aux étudiants en psychomotricité de l’IFPVPS La Garde (83) et de l’UFR Santé de Besançon (25). D’autre part, elle est, depuis 2019, référente handicap au sein du conservatoire à rayonnement régional du Grand Besançon Métropole (25). 

Raphaëlle Petitperrin

Raphaëlle Petitperrin est juriste en charge de l’accompagnement des professionnels. Elle travaille au Centre national de la danse depuis 2009. Elle a notamment en charge l’information des danseurs et danseuses, chorégraphes, administrateurs et administratrices de compagnies, professeurs de danse, sur les questions d’ordre juridique et administratif liées à leur parcours professionnel (droit du travail, protection sociale, droits d’auteur et droits voisins, droits des contrats, droit des associations, réglementation du spectacle…). Toutes ces années au contact du secteur chorégraphique lui ont permis de développer expertise et connaissance du terrain.