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Enter a glimpse of the process of Dance People — a creation shaped through encounters, movement, questions, and shared experiences. This space opens the work beyond the stage, inviting you to follow the research, discoveries, and evolving conversations that continue to shape the piece.

Les Marées Sèches (The Dry Tides) is a long durational and choreographic performance for algae and a human in a horizontal and non-hierarchal relationship.  It attempts to answer a paradoxical question: What would be a non-anthropocentric choreographic work? The performance’s temporality is defined according to the tidal cycle, 6 hours and 12 minutes. It is also an act of resistance against the acceleration of our lives and a way to trouble our productivity-driven mindset, which reduces our capacity of listening to other living beings. Read more : https://www.clara-grosjean.net/les-marees-seches

Dance People Festival is more than a three-day event. It is a collective process unfolding over months, bringing together artists, dancers, musicians, thinkers, and local residents around a shared desire to imagine new ways of gathering. This page follows the people, stories, preparations, and discoveries that gradually shape the festival.