Which language do you speak ?

Français      The return to France is also the return to my mother tongue. Everywhere around me, people speak French, and it always makes a funny impression when I come back from my trip ! I understand everything, everything suddenly seems easy: move, ask for information... Daily life becomes more fluid, I find my bearings....

Portrait of Kavya

Français By settling for a few weeks in Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia, I meet the dancers of the Ask Dance Company (ADC) with whom I take classes in Malaysian, contemporary and classical dances. Among them, I meet Kavya, who comes from Kolkata and is doing an internship with the company. She is 24 years old,...

Portrait of Anton

Français During summer 2017, I went to the Grand Bal de l'Europe, the European folk dance festival, taking place in Gennetines, in Auvergne region, France. There was plenty of workshops and balls everyday during two weeks. Watching people dancing, I met Anton, a young Russian. Coming from Moscow specially for the Gennetines festival with a...

Portrait of Maria

Français During my trip to Spain, I went to the Basque Country to discover local dances. In the small port city of Portugalete, located on the way to Santiago-de-Compostela, near Bilbao, a friend introduced me to Maria. She is a professor of flamenco, a folk dance from Andalucia, southern of Spain. But this dance is...

Discovering the malaysian dances

Français Here I am ! It's been two months since I arrived in Malaysia, where I was able to collect some dances here and there... But what do we call the "Malaysian dance" ?   This topic is quite complex, and immersing yourself in the Malaysian artistic world allows you to discover the landscape of...

Open letter to friendship

Français   After traveling for about six months now, today is a simple Sunday morning and I want to open a parenthesis in this journey to express my gratitude to life and people surrounding me, near or far away. I am writing now this open letter because, after a while traveling and returning to France...

Writing the movement

Français Several people asked me how today is transmitted a ballet, or an old dance. Is there a writing system for dance, as there is one for music ? Is this system universal, and does it apply throughout the world ? Do all choreographers write their creations ? How can today's dancers learn and play...

The body enlighted

Français What I like about dancing is that we do not need any external objects to dance. Only of our body. It is our material existence, our link between the inside and the outside. The sense organs are like open windows, and allow the body to communicate with the outside world, to receive information: sounds,...

Balancing in the movement

Français We all know the anxieties of not knowing what you want in life, for example, or the fact that you can not find a stable situation. people say phrases like "It should be somewhere" or "When I'm thirty I'll settle down". And to think about it, I wonder where does this need for stability...

How ballet can be a moment of well-being

Français There are various types of dance : court dances, folk dances, folk dances, religious or ritual dances, healing dances, mystical or ecstatic trances... But the dances now considered as academic are often the ancient court dances, like the occidental classical dance named ballet, or various court dances in Asia. The dance has been codified...