With her “Dance Floor” first, Charlotte Rousseau, the videographer, begins by immersing the spectators in the Atrium of the National Centre for Dance with different sequences of dance from popular musical films.

Then through the sound of “Las Ondas Marteles” (Sarah Murcia, Seb and Nicolas Martel) Thomas Lebrun et Christine Corday inaugurate a ball for you like nothing you've ever seen before! Accompanied by Claudia Miazzo, Jean-Paul Padovani, Olga Plaza, Christian Ubl and Vanessa Marques Martinez, they embark you on a “conferdance” following the traces of popular dances from yesteryear and from today, waltzing through an accordion style to a jerk, from a tango to a swing, from ballroom dances to the java, and, of course the Madison. Demonstration and initiations included!

And, last but not least, the Las Ondas Marteles Group and DJ Moulinex give the floor to voices, guitars, double bass and records, enthralling the public with a fever-pitched Rock-a-Billy Ball.

Updating: October 2011

Thomas Lebrun has danced for Bernard Glandier, Daniel Larrieu, Christine Bastin, Christine Jouve and Pascal Montrouge, and founded the Illico company in 1998, after composing the solo “Cache Ta Joie!“. Based in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, he was first of all an associated artist at Vivat, Armentières (2003-2005) before taking on a similar role in 2006 at Danse à Lille CDC (Centre for Choreographic Development). “On prendra bien le temps d'y être”, “(La) Trêves” “Les Soirées What You Want?”, “Switch”, “Itinéraire d'un danseur grassouillet” and now “La Constellation Consternée” are all works that are also aesthetic worlds which are explored, allying demanding and precise dance with an assertive theatricality.

Thomas Lebrun has also composed a number of pieces in collaboration, notably with the Swiss choreographer Foofwa d'Imobilité (“Le Show” / “Un Twomen Show”) and the French choreographer Cécile Loyer (Que tál!), and makes training and teaching a priority. She teaches at the CND (National Dance Centre) in Pantin and Lyon, Ménagerie de Verre, La Rochelle Conservatoire, Balletéatro de Porto, etc.

He has also choreographed for foreign companies, such as the Liaonning National Ballet in China, Grupo Tapias in Brazil (a solo and, in 2009, a quintet for the Year of France in Brazil) and for Loreta Juodkaité, the Lithuanian dancer

in the 2009 edition of the New Baltic Dance Festival in Vilnius et for FranceDanse Vilnius managed by  CulturesFrance (Vilnius, European cultural capital 2009).

In 2012, Thomas Lebrun becomes the new artistic director for the Centre chorégraphique national de Tours.

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Last update : May 2011

Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).