the young public
The company has formed special contacts with several teaching establishments that have dance projects, including community arts centres, teacher training colleges and university departments involved in physical and sports activities. It has also undertaken with the National Dance Centre to establish an artistic and cultural training programme for pupils who are taking the dance option at the Lycée Récamier high school.
The Maison de la Danse participates in the Enfance, Art et Langage programme, a childhood, art and language project. There is also the “l’enfant, l’élève et la danse” project, a dance project for young pupils, with dancer Muriel Corbel and the Raoul Dufy nursery school in the 1st arrondissement.
The practical workshops for teachers bringing their pupils to a show have assembled 177 people for 11 workshops (given by dancers of companies who perform for the young public).
Morning workshops started in 2005, and in these there are modules composed of 6 video-conferences followed by 6 workshops of artistic practice led by professional dancers. We propose these to teachers at schools who practice dance in the classroom but who have no external participants. At present we can only accept 2 projects (2 classes), amounting to 12 morning workshops, due to a lack of means and studio availability.
In 2006 the Maison de la Danse produced the DVD Le Tour du monde en 80 danses (around the world in 80 dances), a new tool for raising awareness of the art of choreography intended exclusively for school teachers and children and cultural networks.




