Matthew Hawkins will be a very popular teacher at the National Center for Contemporary Dance during all the years when Marie-France Delieuvin will be its educational director (under the direction of the establishment by Joëlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia), from 1991 to 2003. Matthew Hawkins is a pure product of the very classic British Royal Ballet. After which, we found him in more updated options, alongside Michaël Clarke for example, where he willingly developed a tone of very British fantasy – not to be confused, however, with any radical contemporary conception of the body, of movement or writing. His courses and workshops reveal a clarity of very structuring lines, always imbued with a classic demonstrative spirit, at the same time free from any renewal of a rigorous codification.
Gérard Mayen

Workshop filmed in October 1998 at the Bodinier white studio (Angers)

Teaching choreographer
Matthew Hawkins

Dancers: students from the CNDC higher school (class of 1998-2000)
Bérengère Bodin
Cédric Calvaire
Ana Chon
Hannes Donabauer
Emmanuel Eggermont
Pierre Lacroix
Lorena O'Neill
Rosalia Ortega
Vicky Perez Miranda
Juliette Roudet
Nadia Sifer
Grégory Sonigo Kamoun

Pianist
Dominique Lofficial

Marie France Delieuvin is a dancer, choreographer, and  pedagogue of Contemporary Dance. She was formed in Paris with Françoise  and Dominique Dupuy, as well as with Jérôme Andrews. Soloist of the  Company Les Ballets Modernes de Paris, she continues her formation as a  dancer in the United States (Harvard University and in New York),  working as a soloist for Mathews / Masters Dance Company. She then  starts her own choreographic work in Paris with the companies Transit  and Libre Parcours, creating as well choreographic pieces for other  international companies. Professor at the Superior National Music and  Dance Conservatory of Lyon (France), she was commissioned by the  Ministry of Culture of France, as Director of the Superior Contemporary  Dance School CNDC of Angers, the first National Choreographic Center of  the country.