Festival Artdanthé #28 – Carte blanche à Marinette Dozeville
Practical Information:
〓 Date & Time 〓
Monday, March 23, 2026, at 8:00 PM.
Doors open at 7:30 PM.
〓 Ticket Information 〓
At the door + online
Single price: €10
Bar and light refreshments available on site
In partnership with the Théâtre de Vanves
For over 25 years now, the Artdanthé Festival has been breaking new ground and opening its doors to choreographers who, today, explore new forms, address the issues that move us, and showcase the power of the body.
Building on their long-standing partnership, the Artdanthé Festival and Le Générateur are offering carte blanche to Marinette Dozeville, thus reaffirming their commitment to the work of the choreographer, who has already been featured several times in the festival’s program.&
To create a dialogue with her new work, Marinette Dozeville invites choreographer Marion Sage to perform the opening segment
• Etudes pour Chevalières – duo – Marinette Dozeville, Fanny Lasfargues | 50 min
In Etudes pour Chevalières, Marinette Dozeville seeks to explore the presence of her sisters, even in their physical absence. What remains of these women, of their energy, of their strength?
She aspires to summon and reactivate the absent ones on stage, to pay tribute to their contributions and their energies, which continue to nourish her work.
These questions also resonate in her relationship with the company’s performers: after sharing so many moments of artistic intimacy, how do their bodies, their energies, their personalities continue to infuse her creation, even when the studio is empty? After spending so much time watching them, stimulating them, empowering them, deploying all her kinesthetic empathy with their moving bodies to understand and guide them, how do these performers continue to resonate within her when they are—in theory—not there?
The stage thus becomes the site of a chivalric ritual dedicated to her sisters, through the perseverance of movement as the necessary persistence of struggle.
Thus, Etudes pour Chevalières aims to be a choreographic and musical tribute to sisterhood, where every movement, every gesture is a celebration, a dedication to the collective strength of women and non-binary people.
Etudes pour Chevalières is part of a diptych of two standalone stage works: the dance and music duet—premiering in 2026—and its adaptation for five female dancers—premiering in 2027.
Cast
Choreography and performance: Marinette Dozeville
Music composition and live performance: Fanny Lasfargues
Rehearsal director: Julie Barbier
Set design and costumes: Dagmara Stephan
Lighting design: Louise Rustan, Agathe Geffroy
Production team
Julie Trouverie, Marie Maquaire, Anita Thibaud, Annabelle Guillouf
Co-productions and Support
Production: Yapluka – Cie Marinette Dozeville
Co-production: Théâtre de Vanves, Agence Culturelle du Grand Est, DRAC Grand Est’s Artist Residency Support Program for Rural Areas, C’est pas du luxe! Festival
Support: Le Manège – Scène nationale de Reims, Le Générateur – Gentilly, Boom’Structur CDCN – Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Le Cellier – City of Reims, Pôle Danse des Ardennes – Sedan, Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional – Reims, Studio D42 – Verpel
Photo credit © Marie Maquaire
• Jument – Marion Sage | 35min
Clandestine dance archives and wild horses of Galicia come together in a political cabaret. Through myths, stories, and recorded movements, the work explores our intimate and political relationship with the horse.
“First, there are archives of dance history kept in my office: articles and photographs from the cabaret show *Le Cheval*, performed in Paris during World War II by Julia Marcus, a German-speaking dancer exiled from Nazism.
There are also new encounters: for the past few years, I have been working on farms in Galicia (Spain), and since this is a region where horses and mares live in the wild, roaming freely in the mountains, I have had the opportunity to spend time with them and record their footsteps, their movements, and their various voices.
And then, I wanted to explore our relationship with this animal through its history, legends, and socio-political roles.
I tell stories and create with limited means; I play with the aesthetics of editing by blending genres, where animal archaeology meets the fantastical, and the intersection of dance archives and mythology gives rise to a hybrid body striving to break free from its constraints.”
Cast
Concept and performance Marion Sage
Sound design Anne Lepère
Lighting Estelle Gautier
Costumes Luidgi Bazillier (Goundra)
Set design Iona Suzuki
External perspectives Antia Diaz, Pierre Louis Kerbart, Lou Viallon
Ad hoc assistance with production and distribution France Mori
Co-productions and support:
Co-productions: Charleroi danse, Bruxelles-Charleroi, CDCN L’Echangeur, Château Thierry, CN D Lyon
Confirmed support and residencies: CDCN L’Echangeur, Château Thierry, CDCN Le Pacifique, Grenoble, Klap, Maison de la danse, Marseille, Sacra Experience, Galicia, Ad Lib – Libitum residency, Gaume, Be, Charleroi danse, Brussels-Charleroi Be, CND Lyon
Grants and scholarships: Experimentation Grant from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Dance Department, DRAC Hauts-de-France, SACD Beaumarchais Grant
WBI Mobility Grant
Photo credit ® L’échangeur-CDCN Hauts-de-France
Event supported by Wallonie-Bruxelles International & the Wallonie-Bruxelles Center/Paris (aka Le Vaisseau) as part of Hors-Les-Murs Constellations
ARDANTHÉ, March 10–April 3, 2026
Over its 27 editions, the Artdanthé festival has taken on many different formats. It has primarily featured choreographers, but has occasionally expanded to include theater and music. The term “performances” has often been used to describe forms that were difficult to categorize. It has gradually opened up to international artists, to the point where this has become part of its identity.
Today, Artdanthé is:
– An ambitious event that strives to prioritize conviviality and simplicity, convinced that engaging with challenging works often requires human connection
– A distinctly contemporary event whose primary goal is to trust artists to remain in tune with reality and the concerns of our society
– An adventurous event that loves to explore the unconventional paths opened up by artists who are still relatively unknown on French stages, whether they are emerging or established, based in our region or performing in France for the first time
This year’s edition will be no exception, as it will present nearly 30 performances by teams from 13 countries. Among them are a dozen co-productions by the Théâtre de Vanves and projects hosted in residence, 8 new works, and 7 French premieres.
A wave of new offerings, then, and it is precisely in this novelty that our continuity lies. Surprise and discovery will once again be at the heart of our daily life for three weeks.
More info : https://www.theatre-vanves.fr/discipline/artdanthe/