What about stating the obvious? When there is significant institutional investment in the performing arts—i.e., France since the 1980s, with their “Centre Chorégraphique Nationaux (CCN)”1—the field radically expands, creators explore, and new dances flourish. The French Dance Reflections Festival in New York this past fall, presented by jewelry company Van Cleef & Arpels, really brought this home to me.
The company presented two large-scale works, one inspired by the French protests of 1968, and the other a response to a lost Merce Cunningham work, at NYU Skirball.
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Mehdi Kerkouche, who comes from the commercial dance world, has been tapped to run an important public institution, the National Choreographic Center in Créteil.
CCNCN - Saison 2021
With every click, visitors unveil the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie’s 2021 season on this site by Murmure.
Responses by Guillaume Morisseau, front-end developer, Murmure.
Background: This event site presents the 2021 season of the Caen-based performance space Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (CCN) to the public. We worked with director Alban Richard and the team at CCN to rethink their communication around an adapted approach that was more digital, more flexible and more appropriate to the situation of the fairly exceptional year of 2020 for the cultural community.
Design core: We used a deliberately raw style, calling for a certain “return to basics,” whether in our behavior, in our consumption or in our design. This site presents a whole section of brutalism and reductionism that we wanted to explore. What appealed to us about this idea was that it involved the visitor in their discovery of the 2021 season and