FALL 2025 INTENSIVE
[ OCTOBER 27-31 2025 ]
🇫🇷 FALL INTENSIVE
[ OCTOBER 27-31 ]
📍L'Atelier 9, Lyon
2 LEVELS:
Beginner in Graham
Inter-avanced in Graham
Beginner: For dancers new to the Graham Technique or seeking to build strong foundations through clear explanations and guided practice
Intermediate–Advanced: For dancers with prior experience in Graham who are familiar with the main sequences and ready to challenge themselves with more complex material.
Minimum age: 15 years old.
Monday October 27-Friday 31 (L’Atelier 9)
10h-12h Inter-advanced Graham Technique with Christophe
15 mins break
12h15-13h45 Inter-advanced Graham Workshop with Lucile
15 mins break
14h-16h Beginner Technique with Lucile
15 mins break
16h15-17h45 Beginner Graham Workshop with Christophe
The guest artists will award several scholarships:
• 1 Scholarship for a Martha Graham School intensive in New York City (Winter Intensive or Summer Intensive 2026)
• 2 Scholarships for a Graham For Europe intensive in 2026
GRAHAM TECHNIQUE
"The body is trained, disciplined, honored and, when the time comes, trusted. Movement becomes clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies" (Graham, 2004)
Developed by Martha Graham, a pioneering American dancer and choreographer, this modern dance method is based on the principles of contraction and release of the body. The use of breath enables the body to be fully felt and used in dance.
The session is generally divided into three phases: on the floor, standing and through space. Graham enables dancers, or more broadly anyone with a passion for dance, to explore deep emotions.
GRAHAM WORKSHOP
Creativity sits at the heart of the Martha Graham work and its dissemination across pedagogic and performance contexts.
The Creative Workshop will give carte blanche to the teacher as they work through the lens of Martha Graham’s philosophy and creative process, exploring how to physicalize, embody, and share themes and narratives with intention, honesty, and power. This might include sections of the repertory but will most likely engage students with creating a new work.
This intensive combines daily Graham Technique classes with a Creative Workshop rooted in Martha Graham’s philosophy.
FACULTY
Christophe Jeannot
Christophe Jeannot studied dance at the Conservatoire de Nantes and at the CNDC in Angers. He then pursued his training at the Martha Graham School in New York. Former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, he performed nationally and internationally with the company from 1998 to 2005. While in New York , he also performed with The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, the Pearl Lang Dance Theatre, among others.
Back in Europe, Christophe worked with choreographers such as Flora Théfaine (Nantes), Thierry Smits (Brussels). More recently, he collaborated with choreographer Elise Lerat (Nantes) on her last two creations "Feux" and "Rêve et Ivresse".
Teaching credits include the Martha Graham School, the Tapei National University of the Arts, Trinity Laban Summer School (London), Free Art Fusion (Warsaw), Graham for Europe.
He was a faculty member at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and at the Conservatoire de Nantes. He now teaches at Studio de la Danse in Nantes and freelance. Trained at the EFYO, Christophe also teaches yoga.
Lucile Jorba Y Campo
Lucile Jorba Y Campo trained at the Rick Odums Professional Training Institute in Paris, where she first encountered the Graham Technique. She later received a scholarship to the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York, where she became a member of Graham 2 from 2011 to 2013. During that time, she performed principal and ensemble roles in works like Steps in the Street, Acts of Light, Night Journey, and The Rite of Spring, including on renowned stages such as the Joyce Theater.
Following her graduation, Lucile joined several contemporary, and Afro-Brazilian dance companies, notably performing as a principal with Silva Dance Company. Committed to a multidisciplinary approach, she continued her training at Steps on Broadway, focusing on Broadway Jazz and Theater Dance, and studied the Verdon Fosse legacy under mentor Dana Moore.
Now based in Lyon, Lucile has taught Graham Technique workshops and masterclasses at institutions including Cie Aufait/Fabrik d’Artistes, the University of Lyon 3, L'Atelier 9, and Studio Harmonic in Paris. Lucile is also a certified Yoga Alliance instructor and Reiki practitioner.
COST OF THE LYON INTENSIVE
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