CLASSIQUE

Variation n°1

nd of 1st cycle - unisex - order 2025

Choreographer and director: Florence LEROUX-COLÉNO

Composer: Gwendal GIGUELAY

Musical performers: Gwendal GIGUELAY and Delphine BIRON

Dancer: Hanaé TURMEL 

Directed by Gilles LE MAO 

Executive production: La Huit Production 

Information and brochure: https://www.culture.gouv.fr/fr/Thematiques/Danse/Enseignement-formation-et-metiers/Diplome-d-Etat-de-professeur-de-danse-Examen-d-Aptitude-Technique-EAT

2024 Ministère de la Culture

First introduced to music in Morbihan, Florence continued her dance career at the CRR in Nantes then in Raymond Franchetti's professional integration class at the ENSDM in Marseille. In 2002, she began her professional career at the Ballet National de Marseille, under the direction of Marie-Claude Pietragalla (then Frédéric Flamand / Éric Vu-An). Maurice Béjart then hired her at Béjart Ballet Lausanne where she danced for 7 years, before joining the West Australian Ballet where she was promoted to soloist.
It is in the southern region that the desire to teach grows and where the opportunities to choreograph for the company open up new perspectives. Back in Europe, after a few performances with the Ballet Nice Méditerranée and the Royal Swedish Ballet, she embarked on the path of teaching.

After obtaining her state diploma as a classical dance teacher with particular reputation and validating her DNSP at the PNSD in Cannes, she joined the Pont Supérieur de Nantes (Higher education center for live performance and center authorized to provide training). DE training as a dance teacher) and obtained her DE as a contemporary dance teacher in 2020.
Sensitive to the accessibility of dance and art in general to an audience with disabilities (motor, psychological or social), she is also trained in modern art therapy and is certified by the AFRATEM of Tours (Association French Research and Application of Artistic Techniques in Pedagogy and Medicine).  
Since 2020, Florence has been a classical dance teacher at the Pont Supérieur and at the CRR in Nantes (mainly classes with flexible schedules). She also provides lessons to an audience of amateur dancers, within schools in Nantes. She is regularly invited to teach during internships in conservatories or schools as well as by the Ballet Preljocaj (CCN of Aix-en-Provence).
Concerned about constantly renewing its teaching tools and teaching resources, in July 2024 she joined the diploma course for the Certificate of Aptitude for Teaching Duties at the CNSMD in Lyon.

Gwendal GIGUELAY is a pianist of Breton origin. Trained in Rennes then at the National Higher Conservatories of Music and Dance of Paris and Lyon, he won the Scaramuzza Prize of the Les Corts Competition in Barcelona (2008) as well as the Musicians Between War and Peace Prize of the Ravel Academy of Saint- Jean-de-Luz (2010). He performs as a soloist in France and abroad and has recorded Chopin's 24 Études opus 10 and 25 for the BY Classique label (2022).
A passionate chamber musician, he also forms a duo with the cellist Louis Rodde with whom he recorded the CD Sonatas (Fauré, Ropartz), released on the NoMadMusic label (2016). He regularly collaborates with Catel and Bocquet, the Octuor de France, the Orchester national d’Île-de-France and the Académie Musicale de Villecroze.
A specialist in improvisation, he regularly accompanies silent cinema and lends himself to original artistic experiences such as comic book concerts, performances at the Venice Biennale, or even cinema: he is on screen in the film Noces by Philippe Béziat (2011).

Gwendal Giguelay maintains a privileged relationship with the world of dance and movement. He has collaborated with multiple companies and institutions such as the Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris, the Alvin Ailey American Danse Theater, the dancer and choreographer Pichet Klunchun, the Center National de la Danse de Pantin as well as INSEP (swimming synchronized).
Holder of the Certificate of Aptitude for teaching duties, Gwendal Giguelay teaches piano and improvisation; he is regularly invited as a teacher in Asia and Africa. In 2016, he received the Musical Teaching Prize from the Chambre Syndicale des Éditeurs de Musique de France.
His three educational works were published by Éditions First: Improvising on the piano for dummies (2017), Les Grands Classiques du piano pour les dummies (2018) and Masterpieces of Classical Cinema for Dummies (2020).

Director of the production company La Huit since 1990, Gilles Le Mao has produced and directed, on behalf of the General Delegation of Artistic Creation, more than 300 variations of “Dance Events” since 1996.

 Executive producer of some 400 audiovisual and cinema programs at La Huit, he also carries out major interviews on personalities from ethnology, architecture, landscape and art history with the Ministry of Culture. 2009 World Music Favorite Prize from the Charles Cros Academy for the film “The Drums of Tokyo”, he has produced around fifty documented concerts on jazz, world music and classical music since 1999.

 He has also been a member of various selective cinema commissions since 2009 at the CNC and in the Limousin, Normandy and Grand-Est regions. Since 1995, he has worked with the Ministry of Culture - Drac Ile de France in high school and BTS cinema and production section.

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