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Festival Scènes Ouvertes de danse

Open dance scenes

May 31 to June 2, 2024
EMBRUN

While we await the new 2024 program, let's take a look back at the 2023 edition:

'' dance in all its forms!
Open dance scenes

The unmissable rendezvous for dance in all its forms!

Serre-Ponçon is the place to be for the Hautes-Alpes region's not-to-be-missed dance scene, with its culture, festivities, diversity and sharing! This is the 13th year that the town ofEmbrun has invited everyone to discover dance in all its forms: demonstrations, shows, initiations and workshops. Each year, over 20 disciplines are represented: world, urban, modern, traditional, couple and sports dances... An open-air dance festival!

2023 web poster

A festive 2023 program open to all 

The "SCENES OUVERTES DANSE" festival, organized by the town of Embrun and supported by the Région SUD, returns from Friday June 02 to Sunday June 04, 2023 to rock the streets of downtown Embrun with grace and energy!
- 450 professional, semi-professional and amateur dancers in the streets of Embrun.
- 35 shows and events over 3 days.
- Professional companies of regional, national and departmental stature in contemporary dance, jazz, hip hop and flamenco.
- 27 Hautes-Alpes dance schools performing.
- Salsa, rock and roll and tango dance evenings.
- Festive introductions to country dance, zumba, line dancing and capoeira.
- Dance workshops in consciousness dance, jazz/contemporary dance, aerial dance and African dance (fee and booking required).
- Over 4,000 people attended the festival.

Open dance scenes

                 Detailed 2023 program

Friday, June 2nd

7:30 p.m.: FASHION SHOW by shopkeepers [ Place Mazelière ]

9pm: SPECTACLE new jazz by the young ballet CALABASH (Lyon) [ Place Barthelon ]
Interstice : Excerpt from "Regard?" by Compagnie Aglaë Marcellin

9:45pm: "Rodeo" hip hop show by the GRENADE JOSETTE BAIZ company [ Place Barthelon ].

Saturday, June 3rd

2PM: CONSCIOUS DANCE WORKSHOP - Fee upon reservation [ Pavillon de danse ]

3:30 pm - 9:45 pm: DEMONSTRATIONS AND INITIATIONS by dance schools [ Downtown streets ]Jazz / Oriental dance / Capoeira / Classical dance / Tahitian dance / Contemporary dance
Jazz / Oriental Dance / Capoeira / Classical Dance / Tahitian Dance / Contemporary Dance Tap / Flamenco / Pole Dance / Street Jazz / Country Dance / Zumba / Argentine Tango

From 7:30 p.m.: APÉRO TANGO - Tango dance initiation and demonstration [ Place Dosse ]

8:30 PM: FLAMENCO SHOW - Dance and music show [ Place Mazelière ]

9PM : LATINO AND ROCK DANCING EVENING [ Place Marcellin ]

9:45pm: CONTEMPORARY HIP HOP SHOW "VOILA" by Evolves [ Place Barthelon ]

10:45pm: CONTEMPORARY DANCE SHOW "THE TASK" Ellipses company [ Place Barthelon ]

Sunday June 4th

10 a.m. : AIR DANCE WORKSHOP - Fee upon reservation [ Jardin de l'Archevêché ]

2pm: AFRICAN DANCE WORKSHOP - Fee upon reservation [ Pavillon de danse ]

4:30 pm: CONTEMPORARY DANCE "The Rite of Spring" Compagnie Antipodes [ Jardin de la Marine ]

5pm: POT DE L'AMITIÉ offered by the commune [ Jardin du Roc ]

5:30pm: DANCE AND CIRCUS SHOW "T'es rien sans la terre" ("You're nothing without the earth") [ Jardin du Roc ]

Shows transferred to theatres in case of bad weather

'' "To dance is to question oneself, to go deep within oneself".
Marie-Claude Pietragalla - dancer, choreographer