Fit to Dance: Science & Performance Training

- Easy, targeted exercises for dancers at all levels. - How basic fitness can help you dance with more confidence and move forward effectively - How to manage personalised, efficient training over the long term. Mediators: Emeric Rabot is a French multidisciplinary dancer trained at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium, Emeric has collaborated with various choreographers in Belgium and Switzerland. He regularly teaches for companies and dance institutions in Switzerland and abroad. His workshop FULL focuses on expressivity, fitness and floor work in various theatre and dance institutions. He is the founder of Danse Sans Frontieres, a platform promoting art, social and science transcontinental projects. He supervises the socio-artistic project Bewegungsraum Kulturen, which for the past three years has been offering intergenerational dance sessions at Zurich's federal asylum center. He teaches dance for health in Berne and Zürich, with the aim of making dance accessible to all. Emeric holds an MAS in Dance Science from the University of Berne and focuses his research on disciplines that improve performance and well-being, such as breathwork. Joelle Dumas is a Swiss dancer, choreographer and dance scientist trained at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri, Tanzwerkstatt/Konstanz and UniBe, Joëlle has been teaching dance-theatre for 25 years in her dance school and is actively involved in mediation in Switzerland, among other things with Médiation Danse CH and the national project Reso Danse & École. In 2019, she set up the collectif PERSONA GRATA, which brings together artists from a wide range of backgrounds for choreographic co-creation projects and mediation events.