Creation for Beginners
The creative experience is a unique moment

In this workshop the aim is to compose a choreographic object and/or to stimulate improvisation that will lead to an organic movement vocabulary centred around the senses rather than the intellect. It will contain the artistic dimension of live performances – a disconnection from everyday life in order to allow other experiences, emotions, tastes and above all, a critical, creative spirit to flourish.
We will explore the development of movement vocabulary through systems of structured games. We will use the imagination to help discover different corporeal states – the basic material of contemporary dance. We will explore the multiple parameters that enter into constructing choreography.
In order to do this, at the beginning of the session we look for ways that reveal the possibilities of the body as a whole, by working on relaxation and stretching. Through exercises and structured games we encourage precision and quality of movement as well as awareness of the self and of others.
We will also play with other elements related to movement such as time, space, energy, the body and its relation to others, to the floor, to a surface, to sound etc. The workshop will culminate in compositions and individual and collective improvisations that will unveil and bare witness to that ephemeral and unique instant — the live performance.
This workshop is greatly influenced by my experience and work as an artist. It is important for me to present the creative experience as a unique moment, as we live it as professionals: with due gravity and rigour, as well as with a zest for invention, for novelty and for each other.




Rosas Repertory – Desh
“Not once, even during moments of deep concentration, should we abandon the notion of pleasure.“

We will learn pieces of the trio version made in 2005. Having been part of the creation process I will focus on letting the participants taste the sources of this work, the inspiration places where it comes from. The pleasure of experiencing movement, its emotional textures and all its differentiated qualities of volume, space, timbres and explosions will be in the centre of my teaching.




Marion Ballester
Since her education at CNDC in Angers, from 1987 to 1989, Marion Ballester leads, in parallel, a triple career as choreographer, performer and teacher. After having started her career as a dancer in 1989 with Dominique Petit, she was engaged by Phillipe Decouflé and later joined Rosas, both as performers, until she in 1992 left to study in New York at the Trisha Brown Studios. From then on she started elaborating her own choreographic research, founding her own company and creating her own work; "Blue Mathematics", then "Unconscious Landscape" (2000), project dance/sculpture/video for 4 dancers inspired by the work of Louise Bourgeois; "Intimez-moi" (2001); "Bord à Bord" (2002); and finally "Neptune" (2004) created in the frame of the Festival des Antipodes in Brest, a performance for five dancers on the music of Philippe Manoury.

She went on to become the assistant of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker for the creation of "Once", in 2002., than she is danced the trio "Desh" with the Flemish Choreographer and Salva Sanchis. Between 2007 and 2009 she worked on the triptych "Trois solis pour Marion" with three collaborators: Benoît Lachambre, Osman Kassen Khelili and Odile Duboc.
In 2010/2011, Raimund Hoghe engaged her for a new creation "Si je meurs, laissez le balcon ouvert".
In parallel Marion Ballester never ceases to deepen the pursuit of a practice of pedagogy, in the midst of different educational structures and professional dance companies: at CND-Paris, at P.A.R.T.S or the companies of Angelin Preljojac, Philippe Découflé and Jean-Claude Gallota.