A dance school in the heart of Lyon
Our dance school offers beginners', introductory, classical and jazz classes for children, teenagers, and adults.
As well as providing professional training, the Calabash Choreographic Centre is keen to promote access to dance for all, and to forge links with the local community. That's why several lesson times are available during the week.
You can still try them out.
Registrations
All registrations are now done online via the Viviarto platform. Payments can be made by direct debit or credit card. Payment facilities are available (up to three installments without fees).
Important Dates
Course duration: dates and registrations coming for 2025
(no classes during public holidays and school vacations)
End-of-year show on Saturday, June 8, 2024, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Oullins.
Addresses
MONDAY: Ecole Ravier, motor skills room - 1 place Jean Jaurès 69007 LYON (Metro B stop Jean Jaurès)
WEDNESDAY: Salle Boyer, 1st floor - 6 and 8 rue Claude Boyer 69007 LYON (Metro B stop Jean Macé)
How to Benefit from Sports Practice Aid?
To support sports associations and encourage young people to practice sports or physical activities again, the government has introduced a new financial aid: the Pass’Sport.
The Pass’Sport is a back-to-sport allowance of 50 euros. This state aid is intended for children aged 6 to 18.
The aid is paid directly to the organizations in exchange for an immediate discount given to the young beneficiary.
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PROFESSORS
CALABASH
Léonore Faurite - Jazz Teens/Adults
Léonore Faurite, dancer at the young ballet Calabash, has a background in Jazz dance which she has practiced and studied since a very young age. Léonore's personal energy is intimately connected to the dynamics, impacts, and rebounds of Jazz dance. She enjoys working with the rhythmicality of this particular dance. Her curiosity and artistic openness also lead her to discover and explore other forms of dance at the associative school Ecla'danse (Isère), where she benefits from the classes and lessons of Séverine Cutivet and Ratiba Beji. From tap dance, classical, hip hop, to ragga, she shapes a multidisciplinary profile and also hones her Jazz technique through international workshops in Voiron (classes with Nuriya Nagimova, Wayne Barbaste, Alain Gruttadauria, Roberta Fontana...). These different practices cultivate her taste for hybrid performances, particularly the performing arts.
In 2021, she obtained her general baccalaureate with an artistic focus, specializing in theater and art history. She then joined the stage and dancer training program at the Calabash Choreographic Center to improve her technique and develop her artistic skills. The Technical Aptitude Exam in Jazz dance naturally became part of her dancer training, which she passed in 2022. In 2023, she expanded her experience as a dancer through repertoire work during her training, particularly through the transmission of the piece Boxe Boxe from Mourad Merzouki's repertoire, which demands rigor and creativity. At the same time, she completed two teaching units as part of the State Dance Teacher Diploma, in anatomy and dance history, which she obtained in 2023. The knowledge she gained allows her to approach precise work paths.
In September 2023, she joined the young ballet Calabash and is preparing to regularly teach classes to provide students with a rich Jazz choreographic culture and to enlighten them on the main technical characteristics of this dance: rhythm, different dynamics, as well as to transmit an energy that encourages commitment and daily self-improvement.
Adam Baheux - Jazz Teens/Adults
Born on September 12, 2001, in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Adam Baheux is a professional dance trainee at the Calabash Choreographic Center, directed by Wayne Barbaste in Lyon. Originally from Boulogne, Adam started dancing at the age of 5 at the municipal School of Music and Dance in Outreau. He began practicing Jazz and Classical dance at the age of 5, and hip-hop at the age of 8.
He started participating in CND competitions at the age of 8, where he won a second prize in solo classical. He continued competing until he was 18 in solo jazz and classical, earning several national prizes in solo and group jazz/other styles. In September 2020, he joined the young ballet Calabash where he passed and obtained his EAT Jazz. He subsequently joined the Calabash company in 2021, and then the Yack Stories company in October 2022 for cabaret performances and children's Christmas shows.
In May 2023, he also obtained his EAT classical.
Aurélie Martin (Awakening and Classical)
Aurélie started dancing in Lyon with Alain Astié and René Bon. She entered “Scène formation” in 1999 where she followed jazz training (Matt Mattox technique) with Sophie Jove and Hamed Ammadi, contemporary with Tony Di Stasio and classical with Sylvie Chabert and Dominique Laine. She diversifies with African dance (Linda Yapo, Ivory Coast). She entered the Lyon 7 Dance Academy in 2008. A dancer and performer with the Cie Anima and the Cie Art Gaiment DT, she joined the Cie Philioscope in 2009.
Under the direction of Wayne Barbaste, General and Artistic Director of the Centre Chorégraphique Calabash.