The creative project of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie couldn’t be as broad and diverse as it is without the support and diversity of our partners with whom we work in constant collaboration to program pieces together or support projects that mean a lot to us. We thank them for their commitment towards dance and their understanding of the fact that a partnership has to evolve with each piece and each artist. The diversity of our partnerships in the artistic and cultural field and the variety of social issues we engage with allow us to deploy our activities in a variety of ways – through senses, political action, knowledge, …
What’s on
Shows — Installations
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Giselle…
Shows - installations
from February 1, 2023 to February 2, 2023
Conception : François Gremaud
François Gremaud presents both a (re)reading and a new performance of the famous ballet Giselle, as a love letter to the performing arts and the performers who make the art form what it is. His joy, exultation and curiosity will be embodied …
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Et de se tenir la main (Holding Hands)
Shows - installations
February 28, 2023
Conception : Mélanie Perrier
Mélanie Perrier explores the many meanings of the simplest and most universal gesture – holding hands – in a luminous and vivacious choreographic and musical piece. A family-friendly show with and for children. What do these two men holding hands mean to …
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any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones
Shows - installations
from March 16, 2023 to March 17, 2023
Conception : Jan Martens
For the first time, Belgian choreographer Jan Martens presents a wide-scale piece imagined for the main stage with an atypical corps de ballet composed of 17 unique personalities with a strong commitment against oppression and assignations. Any attempt will end in crushed …
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Mourn Baby Mourn
Shows - installations
from April 4, 2023 to April 5, 2023
Conception : Katerina Andreou, Associated artist
In the piece Mourn Baby Mourn, Katerina Andreou’s primary material is sadness and nostalgia. The piece is a solo devised as a distress signal, a virulent attempt at escaping melancholy. Greek choreographer Katerina Andreou’s reflection starts with an intimate and collective feeling of …
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Red Horizon
Shows - installations
from May 2, 2023 to May 14, 2023
Conception : Gabey Tjon a Tham
Red Horizon consists of 15 double pendulums composed of a white light and a small loudspeaker that move according to the unpredictability of the mechanism. The ensemble forms a field of visual and sound particles, hypnotic and captivating, playing on the variations of …
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Calico Mingling, Katema, Reclining Rondo, Particular Reel
Shows - installations
from May 3, 2023 to May 4, 2023
Conception : Lucinda Childs reprised by Ruth Childs
Choreographer Ruth Childs reprises four performances created by her aunt Lucinda Childs in the 1970s, a key moment in the career of a major figure of contemporary dance and in the history of dance itself. Following her ongoing transmission project she started …
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Trottoir (Sidewalk)
Shows - installations
May 11, 2023
Conception : Volmir Cordeiro
Choreographer Volmir Cordeiro presents the sidewalk as a place where everything is possible, where disorder takes many forms – an expansive universe where six performers dance with abandon in a multicolored, joyful and exuberant piece. A playground where the rule would be to …
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Les Baigneurs (Bathers)
Shows - installations
May 13, 2023
Conception : Clédat & Petitpierre
At once a moving sculpture, a delicate performance and a slow choreography, Les Baigneurs (Bathers) infuses space with poetry and oneiric gestures – another pace and other colors in the atmosphere of an ideal summer. Under the Falaise sky, Yvan Clédat and Coco …
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Les Mariés, même (Bride and Groom, Same)
Shows - installations
May 18, 2023
Conception : Clédat & Petitpierre
In a park, five newlywed pairs wander around wearing tuxedos and white dresses and posing for an invisible photographer. A piece which subverts the codes of wedding photography in a surprising performance. It is a quite usual sight on a beautiful Spring day – something …
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Odd Meters + gr oo ve
Shows - installations
June 14, 2023
Conception : Soa Ratsifandrihana — Mikko Niemistö
Two soli for an evening of choreographic conversation, between different styles and eras for g r oo v e, which borrows, samples and revisits, and between movements and rhythms for Odd Meters, which follows the sinuous tempo of dreams. Odd Meters — …
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Zeppelin Bend
Shows - installations
December 6, 2023
Conception : Katerina Andreou, Artiste associée
With her first duet, Katerina Andreou continues her investigations around free choice and the notion of effort. Along with dancer Natali Mandila, she develops a singular rhythmical language, translated in unison by two twin bodies. Zeppelin Bend originates in the hours …