The variations proposed by the French   Ministry of Culture are teaching aids. They are designed to form a   didactic tool allowing each teacher to transmit dances in the context  of  a choreographic culture.
We strongly recommend that teachers consult the enclosed leaflet, which presents for each variation a biographical note of the choreographers and musicians as well as comments on each dance.
The end of cycle 1 and 2 variations can be technically adapted by   teachers, who have excellent knowledge of their students and are  seeking  for them the most appropriate physical commitment. The  variations for  end of cycle 3, DNOP (national diploma of professional  orientation) in  dance, Bac TMD (Baccalauréat in music and dance  techniques) with dance  option, EAT (French technical capability  examinations), are extracts  from repertoires and, as such, must respect  the artistic writing.  Moreover, some variations can be danced both by  boys and girls,  according to the choice of the student, candidate or  teacher. 

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.