Heritage Days 2024: Special exhibition and guided tour in the Le Regard du Cygne studio

In France, thousands of monuments, museums, churches and other cultural sites open their doors for guided tours, workshops and events. In Paris, in the 20th arrondissement, the Studio Le Regard du Cygne opens its doors to the public for a new show on the evening of 21 September, followed by a guide of Studio on Sunday morning and a tribute to the choreographer Jacqueline Challet-Haas in the afternoon.

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Studio Le Regard du Cygne is a cultural space dedicated mainly to contemporary dance and located in the 20th arrondissement of ParisFounded in 1983, the studio is a place of creation, artistic residency and dissemination that hosts choreographers and dancers. The studio is committed to promoting contemporary creation and exchange between artists and spectators, as during the Heritage Travel 2024 with a guide and a new show!

• Joint dance evening in partnership with the Jerk Off Festival
  Saturday, 21 September, 8:00 p.m.

  Joint evening: Mathieu Nieto and Thalia Pigier

  In partnership with Jerk Okk Festival

  On the stage of Regard du Cygne, two plays intersect and react to each other, intertwining autobiography and fiction, as well as the question of inheritance and that of projection.

  NEVERLAND – Mathieu Nieto

  NEVERLAND is a fairytale refuge, queer and affected, a fantastic non-place of all possibilities. Matthieu Nieto explores the idea of ​​transformation to reveal the many figures that run through it – plastic or fictional, symbolic or abstract, heroic or monstrous, sensitive or spectacular. This creation offers a poetic journey to the heart of being and appearing, transcending imaginary worlds and experiences around gender, sexuality and identity.
  Matthieu Nieto is a choreographer, performer and teacher. He holds a Master's degree in Performing Arts and a Bachelor's degree in Dance from Université Paris 8 in Saint-Denis. He has trained at several internationally renowned dance schools: Donko Seko in Bamako, RIDC in Paris, Coline in Istres, Ecole des Sables in Senegal and Dance New Amsterdam in New York. He continues to explore different cultures and practices such as yoga, voguing and krump, all of which influence his practice and approach to dance and performance. Neverland is his sixth choreographic work.

  Celle qui part n'est pas disparue – Thalia Pigier

  Celle qui part n'est pas disparue focuses on maracatu, jellyfish and green plants. Colonization and homophobia. Whales too. And Charles de Gaulle, but only just. Thalia Pigier travels through space and time, through history and stories. She takes us from Jerusalem to Rio de Janeiro via El Dorado. On stage, paper airplanes draw a map of intimacy where family stories and scientific anecdotes mingle. The piece works on the principle of hyperlinks, like a Wikipedia page: you don't know exactly which blue word took you to the next tab, so you have to go back. In search of the traces of the places we've been and the people we've met. How do the different sedimentations of our experiences settle in us? What remains of the starting point when we move on? How do we dance the traces of what we've experienced? What is this dance I'm dancing?
  Thalia Pigier is a choreographer and performer with a degree in dramaturgy from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She trained as an actor at the Conservatory and as a director at the University of Rio de Janeiro before turning to performance and contemporary dance at EXERCE. As part of this transdisciplinary journey, she created the Total Project (BATTEMENTS, Le Soleil de minuit…). Associated artist in the European interdisciplinary program Circus Without Circus (2021-2023) and Live Works (IT) in 2023, she was a finalist at the Solo Tanz Theater International Festival in Stuttgart in 2024.

• Guided tour of the Le Regard du Cygne studio
  Sunday, September 22, 10:30 a.m.

  Behind the studio doors: 40 years of dance

  This year, Le Regard du Cygne celebrates its 40th anniversary! An opportunity to discover or rediscover its spaces with its director Zoë Salmon. It is also an opportunity to sit under the vine in the courtyard and discuss the unique history of this place. Created as a utopia by the founding couple Alain Salmon and Amy Swanson, Regard du Cygne has always championed daring, free dance and encouraged risk-taking and sensitivity.
  Take a look behind the scenes of studio life on this tour!

• Homage to choreographer Jacqueline Challet-Haas
  Sunday, September 22, 2:00 p.m.

  Homage to Jacqueline Challet-Haas

  Coordinated by Florence Paul

  During this afternoon of tribute, discover (or rediscover) the work of choreographer Jacqueline Challet-Haas, a leading specialist in Laban notation, a system for transcribing movements.
  During the afternoon there is something to discover:

  14:00 > 15:00: a workshop on Laban kinetography by CNSMDP graduate Aurélie Berland
  15:30 > 16:30: a dance conference with Raphaël Cottin, Cyrille Bochew, Angela Loureira and Noëlle Simonnet
  Screening of filmed interviews with Jacqueline Challet-Haas.

  Reservations are required for each activity or it is possible to book the whole afternoon. For more information about the activities, visit leregarducygne.com.