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Brief News of Members

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■ Under the supervision of the choreographer, Stephane Billard, the student could relive the “graph of the Bourbonnais Mountains” dance, which was in danger of disappearing. Thanks to the research and collection works led by ANCT(Association Nationale Cultures and Tradition), the memory and the movements of the dance could be preserved. At the beginning the students refuse to learn the dance saying that it is old people’s dance, but at the end the “SEGPA” (PROFESSIONAL AND GENERAL ADAPTED EDUCATION SECTION) held 22 workshops, with 10 performances and 2 traditional lunches. This summer an expo project with the title “FEU FIGOT” will be presented at World Cultures Festival. In addition to these specific interventions, ANCT dedicates the whole year in promoting traditional dancing, dark marionette theatre with some intervention in the world cultures.

■ The choreographer Stephane Billard and the traditional musician Nicolas Debourg put together a few workshops in the 8th festival of dance in Libourne, in an open day of presenting all forms of dance. THE president of CDD33 “the departmental committee of dance 33” appreciated the traditional dance workshops led by Billard and Deburg affirming that: “the traditional dancing like any actual dancing is a way of expressing. In GANNAT, it is clearly evident that we are open to all kind of dances in the world..

■  GANNAT: The 50th Festival of BON COIN
It is an essential rendezvous for the traditional music fans. The “Bon Coin” Festival is an annual festival organized by ANCT. It is a three-day event full of activities where all generations meet around, many musical groups come together to play central French traditional music.

■  GANNAT: Vietnam in “Cultures of the world”
After Vietnam designated the 2013 as “Cultural Exchange Year between Vietnam and France”, a program has been launched the last February to reciprocate: Vietnam season in France in Chatelet theatre in Paris. In this season, the 41st GANNAT FESTIVAL (The Cultures of the World) will propose to the public to discover Vietnam of the present and the past with rich traditions, including the “NOYANT” village located in the center of Bourbonnais Burnet, where a huge Vietnam community is found.


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