Swing can't be explained, it has to be felt, experienced and appropriated. It's an animal that's much easier to describe than to define. The spirit of swing lies deep within us. It is the beginning of all life... the heartbeat that is both common and unique. This is how you become swing. Beyond these preconceived images, this common heritage, swing is a psychology, a philosophy. It is the link between two cultures. It's a life force that allows each of us to express ourselves in our own unique way. It's not just a surface varnish, it's not entertainment to be taken lightly. Swing is both an individual and collective construction, choreographic and musical. It is three-dimensional and uncompromising. It is elusive... It links different communities, Afro-American, European and African. It is speed, despair, joy, complexity and otherness. It is human... because it brings people together, it converges.

Like two inseparable notions, like black and white, day and night... Swing makes you dance and dancing generates swing. It's a unifying force! In this work, the body is superimposed on the original, contemporary musical score. Paying homage to its journey through time, through different modes and states of body, taking in what it has been, what it is today in our time and what it could be tomorrow, the artists of Compagnie PGK will take the audience on a journey, an experiment in search of The Spirit of Swing.

American-born Patricia Greenwood Karagozian began her career with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. With Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera, she danced and acted in no fewer than eighteen musicals, including West Side Story (role of Anybodys), Kiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Applause... Passionate about teaching, she has held the Certificat d'Aptitude in jazz dance since 1994. She is involved in training for the Diplôme d'État de professeur de danse in a number of private and public centres, as well as for the Certificat d'Aptitude at the Centre National de la Danse and the CNSMD in Lyon. 

In 2003, she obtained a Licence Professionnelle in Analyse Fonctionnelle du Corps dans le Mouvement Dansé (Professional Degree in Functional Analysis of the Body in Danced Movement) in order to go further in the sensations and analyses of the body. She is also co-author of the teaching guide, Enseigner la Danse Jazz, published by the Centre National de la Danse in 2007. And as part of her ongoing commitment to dance, since 2006 she has been president of the Collectif pour la Danse Jazz: CodaJazz. 

Paying particular attention to improvisation and the music-dance relationship, she has improvised in concert at various jazz music festivals (with Philippe la Carrière, Benoît Sourisse, Olivier Temine, etc.). Until 2010, she danced for the FaCéCie company (created by Fabienne Voin-Zanati). This experience enabled her to take part in collective improvisation and composition research with a jazz quartet. Performer, teacher, trainer and choreographer, Patricia Greenwood Karagozian created a jazz solo, Cygne, for Pedro Pauwels in 2000 as part of Anne-Marie Reynaud's project. She has also been asked to work on projects promoted by the Rectorat de Paris in partnership with the Théâtre du Châtelet. 

Artistic director of Compagnie PGK, her first creation, Unfinished Fragments, was programmed at the Centre National de la Danse in March 2012. Since then, the piece has been performed to a wide audience throughout France. 

Created to explore choreographic creativity through musical and sensitive expression, PGK has fully embraced its jazz identity since its creation in 2011. In all of its creative projects, dance is inseparable from a musical score that is alive and present on stage. As for its artists, they are all actors in their own right, bringing to life the various choreographic projects of Compagnie PGK. The company comprises four dancers and four musicians; The dancers: Emmanuelle Duc, Georgey Souchette, Magali Verin, Vivien VisentinThe musicians: Mike Karagozian (pianist, composer and musical director) Ronald Baker (trumpet and vocals) Stephane Miñana Ripoll (drums) Fred Tronche (double bass)