Projects supported

Every year, the Centre Choré­graph­ique Nation­al de Caen en Nor­man­die pro­poses two or three writ­ing fel­low­ships to authors, schol­ars, illus­trat­ors, or trans­lat­ors from France and abroad, to help them with a writ­ing pro­ject, or a research, illus­tra­tion or trans­la­tion pro­ject revolving around dance or inter­rog­a­tions about the body and its rep­res­ent­a­tions. Fel­lows are hos­ted by the Centre Choré­graph­ique Nation­al de Caen en Nor­man­die and work in col­lab­or­a­tion with our artist­ic teams or one of our cur­rently sup­por­ted pro­jects if they wish.

These writ­ing fel­low­ships are destined to:
Schol­ars in the fields of: dance, sci­ence, philo­sophy, aes­thet­ics, art his­tory, social sci­ence, provided their work has a con­nec­tion to dance.
Authors work­ing on nov­els, short stor­ies, scripts, theatre plays, but also trans­lat­ors or illus­trat­ors who engage with the mov­ing body or the rep­res­ent­a­tions of the body.
Fel­lows will be eli­gible to apply for fur­ther fin­an­cial sup­port from one of our part­ners: Villa La Brugère in Arro­manches and/or IMEC, Insti­tut Mém­oires de l’Edition Contemporaine.

Past fel­lows since 2016 :
Enora Rivière | Moteurs
Valérie Colette-Fol­li­ot | L’épaisseur du geste 

Julie Salgues | Dépli­er l’expérience
Olivi­er Nor­mand | Sous le regard

Marco Ber­ret­tini | Func­tion is beauty
Car­oline Déod­at | En bas… en bas

Math­ieu Deslandes | Letkiss
Alice Roland et Stéphane Mon­teiro | Esprits animaux, un conte anatomique
Lou For­ster et Pau­line Le Boul­ba | Les gestes cri­tiques de Jill Johnston

Patri­cia Fer­rara | Tout autour, entre danse et nature
Jean Capeille | James War­ing et le col­lage vaudevillesque
Thibaud Croisy | Lon Chaney, dan­seur aux mille visages

Mar­ie de Quatre­barbes | Rhét­orique musculaire
Mar­in Fouqué | Mémo
Pierre Par­lant | Danser comme on pense

Cécile Proust | Ce que l’âge apporte à la danse
Charles Robin­son | It’s a won­der­ful life

The CCN de Caen awar­ded 4 writ­ing grants in 2023 to 
Gab­ri­el Gau­th­i­er | La bib­lio­thèque du rose et du vert
Pierre Fourni­er | Le corps de la langue | La langue du corps
Laure Guil­bert | Danser dans les ghet­tos et les camps : entre per­sécu­tion et survie
Yesmine Kar­ray | Les Pos­sédées : de la transe à la contre-danse