EMPLOYEES
La Danse Médiévale, a team of researchers at the service of medieval dance; musicians and musicologists, dancers and choreographers, paleographers, historians and ethnologists have gradually laid the foundations for the history of medieval dance...
Catherine Ingrassia
ARCHAEO-CHOREOGRAPHER
Catherine Ingrassia carried out her first research on medieval dance for a Doctorate in Art History on the Iconography of Dance in the Middle Ages at the Université Paris 1. Her encounters with Léon Pressouyre, Claude Gaignebet and Andrea Francalanci transformed her studies into a passion. Her research and regular practice led her to perfect and discover numerous dance techniques. In 2000, she founded the Morescarole association to revive medieval dances and performances. Her approach to dance texts and images enables her to revive this repertoire while remaining faithful to the sources. In 2010, she collaborates with Christophe Deslignes and Xavier Terassa, and together they publish " La Danse Médiévale", booklets created for dancers wishing to recreate medieval dances.vales.
Employees
Xavier Terrasa
MUSICIAN
Today, he is one of the leading specialists in medieval music.
He performs in concert and records numerous CDs with the best medieval music ensembles: OBSIDIENNE by Emmanuel Bonnardot, MILLENARIUM by Christophe Deslignes, AMADIS by Catherine Joussellin... From 1996 to 2006, he toured Europe and the USA and recorded 6 CDs with Julien Skowron's ensemble LA MAURACHE.
Christophe Deslignes
MUSICIAN
Christophe Deslignes received a classical musical education as a flautist and pianist. He developed a passion for early music in the early 1980s and specialized in playing the organetto (medieval portable organ) from 1989 onwards...
Christophe Tellart
MUSICIAN-PALEOGRAPHER
Alongside his university studies in languages (Slavonic, Germanic, Caucasian & ancient languages) and harpsichord (continuo), Christophe Tellart specializes in medieval, Baroque and traditional repertoires, particularly hurdy-gurdies and Scottish, Central French & medieval bagpipes.
Christine Grimaldi
DANCER
Trained as a classical then contemporary dancer, she danced under the direction of Jérôme Robbins, Félix Blaska and alongside Caroline Carlson and Dominique Bagouet. She founded her own company in Bordeaux in 1988.
Alain Ingrassia
DATA PROCESSING
A graduate of the Arts et Métiers engineering school, Alain Ingrassia has always had a passion for specific software development.
To facilitate Catherine's work on her master's degree, he created an initial database to help her analyze the images by highlighting significant similarities and differences.
Masters of thought and dance
Léon Préssouyre
ARCHEOLOGIST
I owe my encounter with medieval dance to Léon Pressouyre. At the end of my bachelor's degree in Art History and Archaeology, I was looking for a dance-related subject for my master's degree. Léon Pressouyre, who was then teaching medieval archaeology at the Institut d'Art de Paris I, suggested I look into medieval dance, which he felt had not yet been seriously studied.
Claude Gaignebet
MUSICIAN
Claude Gaignebet was a member of the jury for my thesis. I met Claude in 1985 at the University of Nice, and his rich seminars introduced me to an unexpected facet of the popular traditions of the Middle Ages. His great erudition and invaluable, judicious advice forever changed my vision of the daily life of medieval peoples. His book, Art profane et religion populaire au Moyen Âge, written in collaboration with Jean-Dominique Lajoux, (1985, PUF) is, in my opinion, a veritable "Bible" for anyone wishing to understand festivity, entertainment and, in particular, carnival in the Middle Ages.
Andrea Francalanci
Dancer
Meeting Andrea Francalanci at a dance congress at the Sorbonne in 1985 was also my first encounter with Italian Quattrocento dance. Having accepted to be one of my thesis jurors, he kindly guided me in the study of 15th-century dances.
Francine Lancelot
DANCER
Meeting Andrea Francalanci at a dance congress at the Sorbonne in 1985 was also my first encounter with Italian Quattrocento dance. Having accepted to be one of my thesis jurors, he kindly guided me in the study of 15th-century dances.
Lou and Claude Flagel
DANCERS
For Lou and Claude Flagel, the 60s, 70s and early 80s were years of intense teaching activity within popular education movements. In Belgium, alongside Marcel Hicter, and in France, with the Ligue del enseignement and the Fédération des oeuvres laïques, Claude and Lou Flagel supervised training courses for dance instructors.
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