Over the years, dance acquired tools and educational initiatives well sought after and essential to guide a young audience in its discovery of choreographic works.
Envisioned and conceived by cultural mediation teams, artists as well as teachers, these tools, listed here in a non-exhaustive way, give an idea of diversity for possible approaches to dance awareness.
Some examples of educational tools in dance
An interactive tool for spectators from the age of 8 years onwards
As a free access website, Data-danse is a digital platform dedicated to the discovery of dance. Intuitive and playful, it addresses the dance world as a whole : venues, bodies, professions, vocabulary, landmarks…
A coproduction of National Choreographic Development Centers’ network, National Theater of Chaillot, National center for dance (CN D), Dance house in Lyon, Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs in Nouvelle Aquitaine (DRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine).
data-danse.numeridanse.tvMultimedia platform
Numeridanse is a dance multimedia platform. It gives access to a unique collection of videos: filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, fictions, dance videos … in which every style is portrayed.
Led and coordinated by Dance house in Lyon (la Maison de la danse à Lyon), Numeridanse was envisioned by film director Charles Picq. Since its start Numeridanse is co-conceived and developed in collaboration with the National center for dance (CN D), with the support of BNP Paribas Foundation and the Ministry of Culture.
www.numeridanse.tv/accueilInteractive mural – from the age of 8 years onwards
As a free access website, Danses sans visa presents, as a mural, an exploration of social dance history following the movement of populations throughout the world.
A National Choreographic Development Centers’ (CDCN) network production
fresques.ina.fr/danses-sans-visaFilm – conference on dance history – from the age of 7 years onwards
Led by a cultural mediator from the CDCN’s network, La danse en 10 dates presents 10 key moments in dance history, uncovering social, political and aesthetic dimensions experienced through dance.
A National Choreographic Development Centers’ (CDCN) network production
www.a-cdcn.fr/Film – dance history conference – from the age of 7 years onwards
Presented by a cultural mediator from the CDCN’s network and as a sequel of La danse en 10 dates, Une histoire de La danse contemporaine en 10 titres enables an incursion in the world of 10 iconic choreographers from the 80s to today.
A National Choreographic Development Centers’ (CDCN) network production
www.a-cdcn.fr/An audio guided practice – from the age of 8 years onwards
Presented by a cultural mediator, Application à Danser is a nomadic device, consisting of a connected apparatus and audio guided instructions. It is conceived to invite each participant to compose his/her own dance from everyday gestures.
A Gymnase CDCN and National Choreographic Development Centers’ network production. Author: Orbe. Co-author: Le Gymnase CDCN. In collaboration with the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM), in the frame of Rapid-Mix H2020. Made with the support of the Ministry of Culture – DGCA. With an outside eye from Mylène Benoit – Cie Contour Progressif, Sandrine Becquet, Sarah Kruszka.
Application à danserTraveling exhibition
This exhibition enables the onlooker to understand the last thirty years of the world of choreography and making new work, by understanding the contemporary dance landscape through texts and visuals.
A National center for dance (CN D) production
www.cnd.fr/fr/page/170-la-danse-contemporaine-en-questionsEducational tools – for the leaders of Artistic and cultural education’s projects.
This tool, made of ten thematic panels, an educational booklet, a database CD and a DVD are designed to help conceiving a class project around dance.
A National center for dance (CN D) and Performing Art Federation and Departments Coproduction.
www.cnd.fr/fr/page/176-a-chaque-danses-ses-histoiresA platform by the National center for dance (CN D) – for artists, teachers, cultural mediators, heads of outreach programs for the public, actors from social, sanitary or legal field, projects’ leaders, non-professional dancers, scholars or curious people.
This website is comprised of three entries to GET TOOLS/RESOURCES, TRAIN/INFORM ONESELF and THINK/SHARE in which you can find respectively tools and resources to develop an artistic and cultural education project, a resource area to get some training and finally a space to think about our practices and to continue nourishing the desire within us.
National center for dance (CN D)
aset.cnd.fr/Board game
This board game takes the form of a cunning card game to infiltrate dance and body imagery into the everyday life of homes, families and children’s places. The specific graphics on the front and back of the cards allow a crescendo entry into the world of dance.
The aim of the game is to create a PODO-character with the help of the other players. At the end of this stage, a choreographic bonus will finalise the game.
La Ruse
www.laruse.org/corpus/How do places make us dance?
A suitcase containing a set of cards for understanding “situated” dance, Danse tout terrain offers a concrete experience of the issues and notions of a dance in touch with its environment, in any type of space. After having painted a portrait of a chosen place by paying sensory attention to what constitutes it, the players explore it through movement. Inspired by gestures or imagination, they combine the cards and adopt different modes of attention. On each of the cards, artistic drawings and poetic writings offer a double entry and different stimuli that can be adapted to different sensibilities and audiences. With Danse tout terrain every place has its dances!
A National Choreographic Development Centers’ (CDCN) network production