The Caen CCN has chosen to welcome 8 creative teams this year for creative projects spanning over the course of 12 to 14 weeks in the framework of the “accueil studio” residency program supported by the Ministry of Culture. Rehearsals open to the public free of charge are a major highlight of the residencies, since they allow artists to showcase their work in progress.
What’s on
Rehearsals open to the public
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Lara Barsacq
January 12, 2023
Show : La Grande Nymphe
Residence : du 02 au 13 janvier 2023
Lara Barsacq conceived La Grande Nymphe as a performance which recalls a danced concert and sheds a contemporary female perspective on L’Après-midi d’un faune (Afternoon of a Faun). La Grande Nymphe is for Lara Barsacq an occasion to reinvent the figure of the nymph …
Bryana Fritz & Thibault Lac [REPORT 22]
February 16, 2023
Show : KNIGHT-NIGHT
Residence : du 06 au 18 février 2023
KNIGHT-NIGHT by Bryana Fritz and Thibault Lac revisits the figure of Don Quixote to work on the oscillation between reality and representation, abstraction and narration. Dance and poetry unite to celebrate the fragility of an instant. Living in a time and …
[CANCELLED] Antonia Baehr & Latifa Laâbissi
Figure Project
March 23, 2023
Show : COLORS & NUMBERS
Residence : du 17 au 29 mars 2023
With the piece Colors and Numbers, Antonia Baehr and Latifa Laâbissi reflect on the various strategies for queer struggle against heteronormative representations, in a performance they conceived as a series of living paintings combining several artistic idioms. How can normativity be deconstructed …
Calixto Neto
April 27, 2023
Show : IL FAUX
Residence : du 17 au 28 avril
IL FAUX by Brazilian choreographer Calixto Neto reflects on the idea of dispossession and a body under the threat of erasure. In his essay Between the world and me, African-American author Ta-Nehisi Coates develops the idea that the black man in …
Arno Schuitemaker
SHARP/ArnoSchuitemaker
June 1, 2023
Show : Remembering the future
Residence : du 22 mai au 02 juin 2023
Dutch choreographer Arno Schuitemaker’s piece is about distance and the relation to others ; it uses video and a stage whose limits are blurry. How can we move forward and get closer to others? That question permeates Remembering the future, which first …
Marcela Levi & Lucía Russo
Improvável Produções
June 29, 2023
Show : 2 against 3: Psycho Tropics (working title)
Residence : du 19 juin au 03 juillet 2023
A project created with dancers Joana Levi, Lucas Fonseca, Martim Gueller and Washington Silva, in which choreographers Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo reflect on the notion of polyrhythm. After their impressive Let It Burn, a solo performed in Caen in September …
Flora Détraz
Compagnie PLI
July 20, 2023
Show : HURLULA
Residence : du 10 au 21 juillet 2023
Flora Détraz’s piece HURLULA composes a bustling soundscape made of various screams, yells, shouts, and studies their echoes in the movements of the bodies. For her new piece, Flora Détraz continues her exploration of the connections between voice and movement; HURLULA …
Nelisiwe Xaba
September 28, 2023
Show : Blind Spot/Blind Date
Residence : du 18 au 29 septembre 2023
South African choreographer Nelisiwe Xaba’s piece is a performance in the dark, a solo performed out of the public’s sight, which calls on all the other senses. Nelisiwe Xaba’s new piece, Blind Spot/Blind Date, is, as the title explains, a blind performance. The …
Catarina Miranda
September 7, 2023
Show : Atsumori
Residence : du 28 août au 09 septembre
After spending two weeks with the “Accueil-studio” program in the CCN, Portuguese artist Catarina Miranda will present Atsumori, a work in progress which is part of her new piece. The piece, made for 5 dancers, was inspired by nô theatre and it …