Sine Qua Non ART

In 2003, he received the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for his achievement in the art fields and the quality of his outreach activities in France. Following his career as a teacher and choreographer, in 2005 Didier Deschamps appointed him as the artistic and educational director of the dance school of CCN – Ballet de Lorraine.
In 2010 he was appointed as assistant artistic director and coordinator, tasked with the artistic and technical coordination of the CCN until 2013, and assisting choreographers such as Faustin Linyekula, Maria La Ribot, Mathilde Monnier in their projects.

Jonathan Pranlas-Descours

Graduated with a degree in Fine Arts and Art History, and then in Theatre at the University of Marseille. Pranlas-Descours started his dance training in Paris, working in several independent projects. He collaborated with several independent contemporary dance companies in Europe, including Mateja Bucar (Sl), Kostas Rigos (Gr), Sebastian Prantl (Aut) et Rebecca Murgi (It) and subsequently became a member of P.A.R.T.S (directed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker) from 2006 until 2010.
During this period he worked for specific projects such as Inferno by Romeo Castellucci, Avignon Festival (2008), Dialogue 09 by Sasha Waltz, Neues Museum Berlin (2009), Anyway no way of knowingbyJohn Jasperse, Opera of la Monnaie, Brussels ( 2010).
In 2011, he worked with the company SOIT lead by Hans Van Den Broek, based in Brussels, and Alexandra Waeirstall based in Dusseldorf. From 2011 until 2014, he worked at the National Choreographical Center of Montpellier (CCN) and internationally toured several works of Mathilde Monnier, such as Pudique Acide / Extasis / Twin Paradox / Soapéra.
Since 2009, he regularly teaches dance training in Paris (Ménagerie de Verre) and other locations in Conservatory as a guest teacher, and at CCN Montpellier, especially at CCN Ballet-de-Lorraine and at the University of Paris 8 (Master 1 and 2).

WORKSHOP

Emotions and Catharsis: Transforming the contemporary performer’s body (practical workshop)

Participants will draw on a range of skills from the areas of performance, theatre and dance, and learn how to physically use their bodies as catalysts of common emotion and transform them for the stage, a process echoing catharsis in ancient drama.
This workshop aims at strengthening participants’ physical awareness and imagination through a series of exercises using voice, body, partnering, and group ritual, and testing their physical limits so as to transform their Achilles’ heel into the gaze of Medusa. Through this process, participants will be able to bridge this physical transformation, this embodying of various states and emotions, with contemporary performers’ challenging reality of here and now.
Open to participants with physical skills who wish to challenge themselves through useful physical practice and/or participants who strongly wish to explore their love of movement.

KOMMOS (movement workshop for all Epidaurus Lyceum students)

How can a creative process help contemporary performers use their bodies and voices as tools for action and being?
Participants will dig into the notion of kommos, a moment in Greek tragedy that occurs when the play reaches a climax of grief, horror, pain, relief or joy, taking the form of a lyrical song of lamentation during which the Chorus and a dramatic character sing together, often accompanied by a dance.
In the 21st century, our bodies are the echoes, traces, memory and evolution of the Greek tragedy and mythology, and can create their own kommos. This workshop aims to give a voice to the young generation, who need utopia and dreams in order to liberate themselves from the atmosphere of catastrophe and nihilism that surround us: being an individual in a group and being a group of individuals.
Participants will learn how to use their bodies as tools of resistance, hoping for a common utopia, and strengthening the act of the individual in order to make the group stronger and more powerful.