LOOKING AHEAD TO SEASON 25/26!
2025 was marked by the creation of Tender Anger, a powerful choreographic work for 10 performers, a collective danced outcry for solidarity, legitimate anger, and tenderness as a path forward.
In today’s political, social, and human context, we believe more than ever in the role of art: to bring people together, to open up dialogue, and to create spaces of reflection, empathy and poetic resistance.
At the same time, the company carried out a wide range of outreach and education projects alongside community and institutional partners. Workshops, artistic residencies, school programs, and public encounters… offering countless opportunities to connect through movement and imagination.
What’s next? We’re heading into a dynamic 2025–2026 season with tours, a new young audience creation, international projects, workshops, and outdoor formats… So many ways to keep dancing the world, together.
BODIES AND TERRITORIES IN MOTION 🪁
BODIES AND TERRITORIES IN MOTION 🪁
Throughout the season, the company pursued its commitment to transmission, conducting numerous artistic initiatives in close collaboration with territories and partner organizations. In 2024–2025, more than 200 hours of actions have been conducted by the company in Suresnes, Creil, Cachan, Eaubonne, Montataire, Herblay… From one project to another, the true highlight has been the diversity and richness of the encounters.

Grounded projects, rooted in place
The art residency at the Suresnes Conservatoire lead to a fertile crossover between dance, music, theatre and visual arts: conference, masterclasses blending dance and music, workshops with theater students, photographic project at the art school, workshops with people with disabilities, as well as with middle school students in artistic amenaged timetable.
As part of the national “Ten Months of School and Opera” initiative by the Opéra de Paris, a year-long project brought together three school classes, including students with additional learning needs, alongside teachers, artists, and the Théâtre de Suresnes. The process culminated in a filmed performance at the Cité de l’Architecture and a stage presentation at the Opéra Bastille.
Special thanks to our wonderful collaborators: photographer Patrick Berger, composer Nicolas Deutsch, dramaturg Véronique Sternberg, and dancers Eva Assayas, Maussane Lerer and Corinne Chachay.
Spreading gestures and stories
In Cachan, dance artist Shaula Cambazzu led “Vivant,” a dance and film project with two high school classes, ending in a screening of the students’ work at a local cinema.
In Eaubonne, a class presented its choreography during the town’s arts festival, in partnership with our longtime ally L’Orange Bleue*.
In Creil, a series of workshops led by Alex Blondeau, Emilio Urbina, and Shaula Cambazzu brought together a wide range of participants, including high school and conservatory students, women seeking asylum, survivors of violence, and in cancer remission.
Each project opened up a shared space where movement, stories, and voices could meet and grow.
IN SEPTEMBER, DANCE AT TRIELLE ! 🌳
IN SEPTEMBER, DANCE AT TRIELLE ! 🌳

From September 22 to 27, 2025, choreographers Christian and François Ben Aïm will lead an intensive workshop at the Trielle Farm (Cantal), open to professional dancers and dancers on the path to professionalization.
On the program:
→ Exploration of Christian & François Ben Aïm’s choreographic writing principles
→ Work around the notion of being “outside oneself”: overflow, surrender, comical…
→ Composition, physical tools, sensitive research in solo and in groups
An immersion into the company’s universe, set in an inspiring environment.
A GLIMPSE OF THE NEXT SEASON 🤩
A GLIMPSE OF THE NEXT SEASON 🤩

Touring, new creation, outdoor performances and international collaborations… the Christian & François Ben Aïm company is preparing a new season full of exciting horizons!
- Tender Anger will continue touring across France, including several dates scheduled during Séquence Danse Paris 2026 at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS.
- A new creation for young audiences, A desert in my kitchen ? will come to life in February 2026.
- Performances in public spaces will keep reaching out to different territories.
- And international projects (including in Latin America) will further our artistic collaborations beyond national borders.
Save the dates! Full details of the upcoming season are available on the company’s website.