Workshops for kids (7-10 year old) on 8th, 11th and 15th January (2-5 pm).
""We need your help! Magdalena and Valerie are two choreographers who works in the "serious" world of dance, but they can't go further! It's like, in the winter, when you put on five pull-overs and can't move anymore! So, if you are between seven and ten year old, and that you like DANCING, SINGING, MIMING, PULLING FACES and make weird NOISES, this is a mission for YOU!"


Workshops In a Search for WE - Magdalena Chowaniec and Valérie Oberleithner

"We need your help! Magdalena and Valerie are two choreographers who works in the "serious" world of dance, but they can't go further! It's like, in the winter, when you put on five pull-overs and can't move anymore! So, if you are between seven and ten year old, and that you like DANCING, SINGING, MIMING, PULLING FACES and make weird NOISES, this is a mission for YOU: Magdalena and Valerie want to know what YOU think of the world and life! Together, we will create DANCES, FILMS, SONGS based on important words such as LOVE, HATE, PEACE, WAR and HAPPINESS! you are ready to sweat? To disguise yourself? To dive into the magical world of dance?... We are waiting for you!"

During their stay at les Laboratoires d’ Aubervilliers, Oberleithner and Chowaniec put emphasis on one chosen sentence of their Manifesto – `Open the circles of dependence’. In a search for ideas and solutions contributing to the process of re-shaping and constructing a common future,  they act in the specific local context of the city of Aubervilliers, inviting local children to look for solutions with the artists. Chowaniec, Oberleithner and the kids, together will be confronted with the Manifesto and will embody it in various forms – of dance, song, drawing, video, text, during workshops on January 8th, 11th and 15th. With this shared practice, both choreographers attempt to break the usual scheme of the art production based on curators – artists – audience  triangle relationship. Children play here a significant role of a stirring force which enables alternative  relations demanded by the Manifesto, to arise. On the 17th of January, the audience is being invited to witness the results of this special encounter.

January 8th, 11th and 15th (2-5 pm)
Children from 7 to 10
Free workshops, all levels
Inscriptions: reservation@leslaboratoires.org and 01 53 56 15 90