Ten years spent between Rhône and Saône promoting dance.

To democratize it.

To make it accessible to all audiences.

To offer crazy, popular, original and flamboyant shows.

To export dance to the streets, prisons and high schools in order to break down prejudices.

Dominique Hervieu, director of the Maison de la Danse and director of the dance biennial, will leave Lyon in February to return to the capital.

She has just been appointed Cultural Director of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

She arrived in Lyon in July 2011 to succeed Guy Darmet.

“It has never ceased to pursue a programming policy accessible to as many people as possible by offering free shows and reaching out to all audiences: schools, remand centers, hospitals, etc.

“, Recalls the town hall of Lyon in a press release.

Continuing the legacy

“This nomination is a real recognition of the work that Dominique Hervieu was able to carry out in Lyon, in the service of the culture and the influence of dance.

We will continue this legacy with the dance workshops project which will combine distribution and choreographic creation to all audiences, ”said Grégory Doucet, the mayor of the city.

Former dancer and choreographer, Dominique Hervieu was the director of the national choreographic center of Créteil, then that of the national theater of Chaillot.

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