Apprentices on the road

Knitting the web of collaborators

Avatâra Ayuso is 24 years old, and comes from Mallorca, Spain. Madeleine Lindh is 20 years old, comes from Sweden but used to live in Amsterdam. Christophe Degelin is 21 years old and Belgian. Eric Emerstedt is 19 years old and also comes from Sweden. Paulo Guerreiro is Portuguese and is 23 years old.

They are part of a group of 24 people divided in two sections (North, based in Brussels, and South, based in Marseille), selected from an initial group of 900, that showed up for auditions and intense workshops which took place in 14 European cities, to participate in  the D.A.N.C.E. project – Dance Apprentice Network aCross Europe – an intensive training course in dance, with a duration of two years that started on the 19th of September and is a collaboration between Choreographic Centre Charleroi/Danses, Ballet Preljocaj, Random Dance Company and The Forsythe Company. The few selected come from different countries, such as France, Switzerland, Turkey, Slovenia, Germany and Italy, with an age range from 18 to 26 years.
The project includes 26 institutions (theatres, dance companies, schools, cultural foundations) from 17 countries. According to Jason ...