Musical training (dancers)

Active listening is at the heart of the musical education course. The listening commentary enables students to speak clearly about the music and to refine their spontaneous feelings.

Another large part of the work focuses on rhythm and temporality through a repertoire not centred on classical music and a largely oral and moving practice.

The course also includes an introduction to the Western system of music notation and to musical culture in the broadest sense, covering periods, instruments, styles, composers and forms.

Through the analysis of choreographic works or compositional processes, dancers refine their understanding of the organic, multiple and non-hierarchical link that exists between music and dance. A guiding principle of the course for future dancers and choreographers is that music is neither a 'support' on which to dance in a constrained way, nor a decorative sound element in the background of a choreography.