29 & 30.01.26
Off-site
10 French dance institutions and 6 from the Balkans (Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia) gather together in La Briqueterie CDCN, MAC VAL, Théâtre Jean Vilar and cnd.fr to present the work of the 32 artistic teams they are currently supporting: performances, discussions, workshops, debates, screenings.
By launching Canal, the CN D is offering to make its resources available to the choreography sector. For two days, La Briqueterie CDCN, MAC VAL and Théâtre Jean Vilar will be taken over by invited cultural institutions (CCN, CDCN, subsidised and national theatres, festivals, etc.). Since 2020, Canal has also been inviting international organisations; this year, the Balkans are in the spotlight. The idea is to offer, in a shared space and time, new visibility to projects (short excerpts, screenings, oral presentations, etc.) and the artists they support. Canal creates spaces for exchange between artists and professional audiences. Because the professional world is not limited to programming alone, two meetings will be offered.
In 2026, Canal is evolving and adopting a new format: registration will have to be done on predefined routes to ensure that each location is visited.
Discover the different routes of Canal 2026.
French institutions
Touka Danses – CDCN de Guyane
with Gladys Demba and Mark Behary-Laul-Sirder
Le Phare – CCN du Havre Normandie
with Charlotte Rousseau and Jade Lada
La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie
with Emilie Labédan and Andrea Givanovitch
Danse Dense
with Collectif Les Idoles and Simon et David Le Borgne
Maison de la danse – Lyon
with Nicolas Barry and Carmel Loanga
Scène nationale de l'Essonne – Évry
with Adriano Dafy and Solène Wachter
CCN d’Orléans – Collectif Ès
with Joachim Maudet and Elsa Dumontel
Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis
with Philippe Lebhar and Suzanne Henry
Les 3T – Châtellerault
with Michel Schweizer and Collectif Bilaka
MAC de Créteil
with Sarah Baltzinger and Alexander Vantournhout
International Institutions and Structures
avec l’Institut Français de Grèce, l’Institut Français de Serbie, Teatroskop et l’Institut culturel bulgare à Paris
Onassis Stegi – Athens, Greece
with Chara Kotsali and Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Epidaure Athens Festival – Greece
with Ioanna Portolou and Konstantinos Papanikolaou
Kalamata International Dance Festival – Greece
with Nancy Stamatopoulou and Mary & Evangelia Rantou
Bunker / Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia / En-Knap – Slovenia
with Petja Golec Horvat and Jan Rozman
Derida Dance Center / International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance Antistatic – Bulgaria
with Jivko Jeliazkov and Iva Sveshtarova et Willy Prager
Lokomotiva – North Macedonia
with Tereza Lazarev and Viktorija Ilioska
Meetings
Moderated by Milica Ilic
at the MAC VAL - Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
Diffusion et coopération à l’international
Thursday 29.01 / 11:00-12:30
Comment envisager aujourd’hui les enjeux de la diffusion internationale dans une dynamique de coopération responsable et solidaire ?
Diffusion et coopération à l'international
Friday 30.01 / 11:00-12:30
Quelles sont les spécificités de l’écosystème chorégraphique de la zone des Balkans, éclairées par le témoignage des structures et artistes invitées à Canal ?