Danser ensemble (Dancing Together) is a global project: interdisciplinary, evolutionary and, above all, human, as it is woven  from encounters. It’s almost a life project for Alice Davazoglou, an artist who embraces living with Down’s syndrome to the point of shaking  things up: what if, this time, it wasn’t the non-disabled who made the disabled dance, but vice versa? On the strength of this conviction and intention, and in support of the book she has written – Je suis Alice Davazoglou, je suis trisomique normale mais ordinaire –, the artist invites ten major choreographers on the French scene to  perform a short choreography written for them. Gaëlle Bourges, Lou Cantor, Bruce Chiefare, Nathalie Hervé, Marc Lacourt, Bérénice  Legrand, Xavier Lot, Béatrice Massin, Mickaël Phelippeau, Alban Richard – all performers-choreographers we love to see dance, accompanied by the CND – will come together in her moving piece. Danser ensemble opens a secret door into her labyrinth of thoughts. The challenge is clear: to touch the heart!

Source: programme of the CND

Alice Davazoglou trained in dance at the Laon Conservatory. Since 2010, she has been following Nathalie Hervé’s workshops at ART21, an association she co-founded. She participated in a number of artistic and cultural education and training projects, and has been approved by the French Ministry of Education to work in schools. In 2021, she will co-lead a workshop at the CN D for mixed-gender professional performers on the issue of disability. She performed in Universalice(solo) by Nathalie Hervé, in ART21 pieces, in We Wonder by Xavier Lot and in De Françoise à Alice by Mickaël Phelippeau. She is the author of Je suis Alice Davazoglou/Je suis trisomique normale mais ordinaire, published in 2020. For this project, she was awarded a CND grant under the “Aide à la recherche et au patrimoine en danse” scheme. In 2024 she is working on her first project as a choreographer, Danser ensemble.

Source: programme of the CND

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.).