Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape (CCNR)
Direction Yuval Pick
Managed by Yuvak Pick since 2011, the CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape (CCNR) is a production and meeting place dedicated to dance. The CCNR team advocates for creation, repertoire, dancers training, support to artists and initiatives for all audiences.
The CCNR company showcases Yuval Pick’s repertoire and participates in the CCN’s projects and activities, including workshops for transmitting the Practice method (the daily practice of the company’s dancers), which is at the heart of the choreographer’s teaching.
The CCNR rolls out artistic and cultural education initiatives for all audiences, including amateur practical workshops, long-term participatory projects, awareness workshops for schoolchildren, and lessons open to everyone. It also develops local projects, including the “Terre de danse” programme that aims to extend dance to suburban and rural areas in the Ain region. Among the CCNR’s events, the VIBRATIONS and CRÉATIVE evenings are key moments dedicated to young companies and choreographic emergence. Since 2017, the Cocotte festival has closed each season with a day and an evening of performances in front of the CCNR and in the La Velette neighbourhood.
Since 2021, the CCNR has supported young dancers in their professional integration through the YuPi programme. This initiative helps young graduates from higher education institutions join the CCN’s artistic team with a 15-month contract. In 2021, the CCNR hosted its first group of 5 graduates. In 2023, following the success of the initiative, the CCNR hosted a second class of five dancers.
The venue
At the head of the CCN de Créteil since 1985, Maguy Marin was ready to see new horizons. Jacky Darne, former socialist mayor of Rillieux-la-Pape, then presented her with a future cultural hub intended to open up the city and encourage cultural diversity. Various structures were envisioned, including a new CCN. Convinced by the project and supported by the city and several towns from the area, the company temporarily settled in 1998 in an abandoned primary school, in the working-class neighbourhood of La Velette.
The initial city project aimed to refurbish a tower in the neighbourhood, and establish the CCN on the top floor, but the project was never carried out. Their stay at the school lasted much longer than expected, with Maguy Marin working for 8 years in this unconventional location. Nonetheless, Marin continued hosting the company’s activities, resident artists, and artistic awareness projects dedicated to the local population. Committed to a new generation of dancers, the choreographer started the “De l’interprète à l’auteur” training programme (“from performer to writer”), a bachelor’s degree in partnership with Université Lumière Lyon 2. In 2006, the company and the city inaugurated a new venue built specifically for the CCN. This tall wooden building was separated between two floors, and divided into office spaces, a cafeteria, a performance hall and two studios. Maguy Marin worked there until 2011, turning Rillieux-la-Pape into one of the crucial hubs for choreographic training and creation.
Since August 2011, Yuval Pick has been at the helm of CCNR, offering a new project focused on the La Velette neighbourhood and the entire town of Rillieux-la-Pape. On October 30, 2017, an act of arson destroyed part of the building, forcing the administration and artistic staff to relocate and rethink the CCNR project outside their venue. For six years, the CCNR closed its doors to the public, and decentralised its activity across the region, thanks to the support from many partner venues. Rehabilitation works began in late January 2022, which allowed the redesign of the ground floor, to open it up more on the neighbourhood. The CCNR is set to reopen in summer 2024.
Key dates
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1998
Maguy Marin’s company settles in the La Velette neighbourhood
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2006
Inauguration of the CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape
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2011
Yuval Pick is appointed director of the CCNR
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2017
An act of arson destroys part of the building.
First edition of the Cocotte festival -
2021
Launch of the first YuPi class, the CCRN’s youth company
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2022
Launch of the “Terre de danse” programme.
Compagnie Relevant becomes associate artist for three years -
2022-2024
Rehabilitation of the CCNR
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