2025-2026
ACCESS'ART
Fourth Year of Dance Therapy
Our new program “ACCESS’ ART” invites participants to experience art as something born inside rather than performed outside. It’s not about technique or stage presence — it’s about listening to the body, finding your own rhythm, and allowing yourself to be. After years of exploring adaptation, integration, and personal sensations, this season is about becoming the creators of our own lives.
Art as inner movement, free and alive
Through four Dance Therapy sessions, we explore the body as a gateway, discover personal movement, create a supportive space and integrate experiences through creative reflection. Without rules or judgment, life experiences turn into authentic expression — every participant becomes a living work of art. The program also includes a dance workshop at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, expanding this journey of freedom, improvisation and self-discovery.
The Body as a Gateway
This first step invites you to return to the starting point:
the body.
The images presented here focus on fragments — gestures, textures, details. The body is not shown as a complete form, but as a presence to be felt. At the center, a mirror.
It invites you to enter the exhibition space differently — not just as a spectator, but as part of the project.
Look at yourself and your body.
The body becomes a point of entry.
A space of perception, presence, and connection to oneself.
Dancing for Yourself
In this stage, the body sets itself in motion. Dancing becomes a way of existing, of expressing oneself, of meeting oneself.
The photographs presented here show the participants in their dance — alone, facing themselves, in an intimate and personal moment.
Some images introduce a different reading of movement: inspired by early photographic experiments of the late 19th century, they decompose the gesture into a succession of positions. Movement appears fragmented, almost analyzed, revealing what usually escapes the naked eye. These images coexist with others that are more direct, where the body is present in its unity and expression within the dance studio.
Finally, group scenes remind us that, even in an individual experience, the body remains in relation. To dance oneself is also to be part of a collective exercise.
The Supportive Space
In this stage, the focus shifts from the body to the space.
The images presented here are composed of fragments of places — details, textures, lights.
These spaces have hosted the movement:
the studio at Carreau du Temple,
the Matisse Room at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris,
and the city of Paris itself, where the project took shape.
The body is no longer visible, yet it remains present in the void. Through these images, space becomes a memory of the gesture.
It supports, contains, and makes the experience possible.
This wall offers another way of perceiving: feeling these places as invisible partners in movement.
The Inner Art
In this final stage, you will discover the creations of the participants.
At this point in the journey, they have already come a long way within the Access’Art project: three sessions at Carreau du Temple, as well as an initial meeting at the museum.
This stage marks the culmination of the photographic project "From Movement to Image" while being part of the broader Access’Art Dance Therapy program. Each collage is accompanied by its starting point: two photographs — a portrait and an image in motion — taken during the second stage, "Dancing for Yourself".
Using these images, participants were invited to create freely. Each person received their photographs along with various materials, transforming them according to their own feelings and intuition.
These works bear witness to a personal process, where the image becomes matter, and where movement is transformed into an artistic form.
