I don’t have any goal when I dance. I start from scratch, that is to say from everything and nothing. The possibilities, the ideas, present themselves from anywhere, and we take off. All that remains is to make choices. The course of action is in perpetual flux between the goal and the path, at the mercy of the unknown.
Photo Olivier Baudoin

Dance Natanja den Boeft, Music Christine Moreau Zef ©2010
« Over 40 years: the birth and development of Contact improvisation in France from 1978 to 1985 »
Archives and History of l'Atelier Contact illuminated by its participants.
In order to make available the research and heritage of the National Dance Center (CND), the archives of Atelier Contact, a film, and its accompanying critical documentation will be given to the CND media center in January 2021. Designed for young generations of dancers, film and lectures will be widely distributed in the world of dance improvisation.

Edith Veyron, Mark Tomkins, Suzanne Cotto, Jean Bloch-Laroque, Catherine Violet, Anne Fournier, Martine Muffat-Joly, Didier Silhol, Agnès Nabet