Maguy Marin Les Applaudissements ne se mangent pas

A dancer and choreographer born in Toulouse, Maguy Marin studied classical dance at the Toulouse Conservatoire, then joined the Strasbourg Ballet before joining Mudra (Brussels), Maurice Béjart's multidisciplinary school. In 1978, she and Daniel Ambash founded the Ballet-Théâtre de l'Arche, which became the Compagnie Maguy Marin in 1984. The Centre chorégraphique national de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne was created in 1985, where she continued her assiduous artistic work and intensive international distribution. 
In 1987, a meeting with musician-composer Denis Mariotte marked the start of a decisive collaboration that opened up a whole new field of experimentation. 
In 1998, the company set up a new National Choreographic Centre in Rillieux-la-Pape. A ‘we, in time and place’ that strengthens our ability to bring out ‘those diagonal forces resistant to oblivion’ (H. Arendt). 
2011 will be a year of rethinking the ways in which the company thinks and works. After the intensity of the years spent at the CCN in Rillieux-la-Pape, a new stage is needed to continue to open up the intangible space of a commonality that is stubbornly seeking to be exercised.
After 3 years in Toulouse, the idea of setting up at ramdam, a former carpenter's workshop in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, acquired in 1995 thanks to royalties, took shape. The company's move there in 2015 will set in motion an ambitious new project in collaboration with the current team: RAMDAM, UN CENTRE D'ART.