In 2015 Ève Magot & La Fronde create a tailor-made artistic project as part of a local contract for artistic education (CLEA), in collaboration with La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, the ministry of culture and the city of Vitry-sur-Seine.

We intervened as a team and this adventure took place thanks to Alexis Jestin, Bastien Lefèvre, Nina Santes, Laura Taubman and Mathieu Zurcher; as well as with the help of the City of Vitry-sur-Seine, the DRAC Île-de-France and La Briqueterie CDC du Val-de Marne.

Numbers :

118h of workshop
84 participants from 8 to 89 years old
6 differents groupes
4 intervening artistes : Ève Magot, Alexis Jestin, Nina Santes, Laura Taubman
2 pieces toured : The 36th Chamber et Some Paradises
1 participative piece created : Some other Paradises
1 photo exhibition
2 films produced : CONSTRUIRE / \ SURRECTION et NENA PAULE SIMONE SUZANNE MICHELLE

Dance is practiced, lived, ephemeral and leaves few traces outside of what has been stirred in the participants. They are the bearers of these experiences and the transformations that result from them.
The desire to share these experiences led us to think about the means and media necessary to create traces and especially to go beyond the support of memories.
We built and thought them as integral parts of this global creation: films, photos, videos, performances:

–Some Other Paradises | 30 minutes piece for 15 dancers created with the participants and with the collaboration of Alexis Jestin.

–CONSTRUIRE /\ SURRECTION | film by Laura Taubman with Nina Santes.

–NENA PAULE SIMONE SUZANNE MICHELLE | film by Laura Taubman with Ève Magot and the grannies from retirement home in Ivry-Vitry, Fr.

-Portraits Some Other Paradises : a series of photos of teenagers and children from the House for Everybody in Villejuif, Fr, by Eve Magot in collaboration with Matthieu Zurcher.

Leurs mots :

Thank you for all the human dough that you knew how to shape with us. You know how to create symbiosis. Your approach is extremely pleasant and the universe you have created has a liberating tenderness.
Florent

My notion of paradise has changed since then: it is more colorful, it undulates, it vibrates, it is filled with the color, the warmth, the scent of our encounter.
Isabela

It was such a beautiful project, thanks to all of you, for your individuality and your ability to listen… It’s quite rare to be able to establish this quality of bonding in a group, with the added bonus of exciting (and liberating) content and dance material. What to make it an island of memory.
Gaëlle

I had an intense, gentle, lively and stimulating time with you. I felt, I learned and I discovered many things through these workshops. I got a lot of inspiration from the very different bodies of each of you, from the ideas, the universes of Eve and Alex. It made me vibrate my body and open my mind. I thank you SO MUCH!
Marie

And yeah, it’s hard to leave these heavenly islands that we have commonly inhabited during these last 4 weeks…
But I was thinking to myself yesterday that this experience was necessarily inscribed in us from now on, that it had left a trace somewhere in our body, that it was therefore indelible.
Déborah

This was my first multi-hour workshop. I was lucky enough to meet a great duo with Eve and Alexis and a helpful and caring group. I thank you for that. I must admit I was still waving last night and I did not want to remove the varnish on my nails even if it did not match my outfit of the day… Stephanie.