WORKSHOP
PEDAGOGY
As part of its commitment to the transmission of knowledge, SUZANNE is deploying its creative project through a series of discovery and introductory choreographic workshops. These workshops enable participants to discover the challenges and commitments of contemporary choreographic creation through the exploration of key concepts and physical experimentation linked to creations in SUZANNE’s repertoire.
Conceived by artistic directors Julien Chaudet, Julien Deransy & Eurydice Gougeon-Marine, the SUZANNE choreographic workshops are designed to enable amateur audiences (young and adult) to immerse themselves in the artistic universe and creative process of the SUZANNE group.
Numerous workshop formats are to be invented in conjunction with the host structure. Initiated in 2022 with MERCURES and TO LIFE, SUZANNE’s first two creations, these workshops have established strong links with audiences. Since then, each new choreographic creation has been an opportunity to develop new workshops and think about transmission with new tools in line with the reflections within SUZANNE.
MERCURES WORSHOP
SUZANNE is offering an immersion in its choreographic work with the opening of a MERCURES workshop that will enable participants to experience both the methodology and the message of the project as SUZANNE has imagined and written them, but also to make use of them so that each participant can write his or her own story.
MERCURES draws its creative inspiration from Morse code, and uses bodies and dance to spread a message that seems to her to be urgent: the need to meet here, now: “LET’S MEET EACH OTHER”.
Beyond the search for a communication method that will be unique to each participant, the MERCURES workshop will enable participants to move through different bodily states, from group synchronicity and collective listening, to personal concentration and letting go.
TO LIFE WORKSHOP
Walking is the main choreographic material for TO LIFE. These workshops offer amateur audiences (young and old) the opportunity to become aware of their walking, their approach and the political, social, identity and artistic impacts that this simple way of moving engages in a personal way and radiates within the social group.
These workshops are also an opportunity to get to grips with SUZANNE’s complex choreographic writing: like the project’s final score, a choreographic phrase will be constructed, transmitted and performed at the end of the workshops.
L’HEURE SUZANNE WORKSHOP
The posture of combat constitutes the central choreographic material of the workshop around the piece L’HEURE SUZANNE. This workshop proposal offers a targeted grown-up audience (women, queer people and gender minorities) the opportunity to become aware of their capacity for action, to identify their personal struggles and turn them into a strength in a collective fight, to gain self-confidence, to assume their power and make it shine out within the social group.