The adage class is part of the training required for professional dancers. The pas de deux allows the choreographer to highlight the links between the characters in the ballet and the choreographers to interpret them.

To do this, students need to be given the tools they need to give free rein to their sensibilities on stage when the time comes, while mastering the complexity of the choreographic sequences in complete safety.

Adage classes are mainly taught jointly by two teachers, one male and one female.

The classical dance taught at the Conservatoire is inherited from the French dance practised in Western Europe since the 17th century, whose founding technical and aesthetic principles are en-dehors and aplomb, a spirit of rigour and a concern for elegance and clarity. From the 19th century onwards, the specificity of women's ballet lay in the pointe technique.

A living art form, classical dance is constantly being enriched, and although it has evolved over nearly four centuries, it still retains elements of its origins. The vocabulary used to describe and name movement has been extended throughout the world, proving that it remains a benchmark aesthetic that transcends fashions and borders.

The contemporary dance courses cover different approaches to technical work in order to prepare students to become performers available to meet the demands of the constantly changing choreographic landscape.

These courses are supported by a teaching team that offers a diversity and plurality of teaching methods, while actively networking to ensure greater pedagogical coherence.

Going through the works in the contemporary dance repertoire is an essential part of dancers' training, both to develop their choreographic culture in practice, in their experience of the body, sensation and intention, and also to make the link from the outset between the classes they encounter during their course and their possible applications in a variety of aesthetic and artistic contexts and styles.