“Au bout du monde 2025” CI Festival in Brittany

with Antoine Ragot, Astrid Lejeune, Catherine Kych & Stéphanie Auberville
July 26 to August 1, 2025 in Plouguerneau

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This year we're moving to Plouguerneau, in northern Finistère. The coast there is magnificent! We'll be staying at the Kroaz Kenan sports complex. The nearest beach (Créac'h an Avel) is a 20-minute walk away. The Grèves Blanches campsite (by the beach) is a 40-minute walk away. But above all, there's a bus that links the practice room, the various beaches and campsites, as well as Brest train station.
The format changes, shifting towards the beginning of the day, leaving the ends of the afternoons and the evenings free to invent together! We start the day with a contact improvisation jam, where we start and finish together. After a picnic lunch, we'll move on to co-facilited workshops, where we'll encounter the worlds of the guest teachers. Late afternoons and evenings are left free to take advantage of the joys of Brittany's coastline in summer (beaches, walks, lazing around, picnics at sunset, etc.) or to offer outdoor activities. The studio will also be accessible in the late afternoon, should you wish to extend your dive.

Here's what our days will look like:
10:00 am - 1:00 pm - Jam: The jam is a free space dedicated to the practice of contact improvisation. We start and finish together, so as to be carried along by our presence and our woven attentions. It is not possible to participate only partially. Punctuality and commitment are required for the whole 3 hours.
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch (self-managed)
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Workshop: Each day, a pair of teachers will suggest a subject to explore, in line with the week's theme. This is a guided time.
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Circle: This is a time for sharing and looking back on the workshop, as well as for passing on information from the teaching team to the group, and between participants for end-of-day proposals, for example.
5.45 pm - 7.15 pm - Open Studio: This is additional free practice time for those who wish. This can take different forms each day, from a focused jam to a somatic exploration or other proposal. This open studio time will be facilitated by one of us.

- A few details -
Day of arrival // Saturday July 26th
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Welcome at the studio. If you need to do a little shopping, the village is nearby.
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Arrival jam with a suggested jam entry to get us started together.
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Opening and welcome circle - part 1 (on Sunday morning, a second circle time will take place. Further information will be given there).
Note: For participants staying at a campsite on the coast or near Lilia, bus 920 stops at the “jean tanguy” stop at 6:44pm, next to the venue. The next bus leaves at 8.45pm.

Sunday July 27
9:30 am - 10:00 am: Opening and welcome circle - part 2

Departure day // Friday, August 1
The day proceeds as in previous days, except for the open workshop, which will not take place.
5:30 pm : End of the day
5:30 pm – 6 pm : Collective tidy-up and clean-up
6:00 pm : Evening and shared meal for those who wish (beach picnic or other).
Note: Accommodation and meals are self-managed.

The teaching team
Antoine Ragot, originally from Poitiers, currently lives in Berlin.
He is known for his rigorous and passionate approach within the Axis Syllabus©, of which he is a certified representative.
He has been teaching Contact Improvisation for over 15 years, a practice he discovered alongside Claire Filmon in the Slovak mountains in 2005, an unforgettable encounter that changed the course of his life.
Antoine actively contributes to the creation and organization of various events around dance, movement research, and Contact Improvisation. He regularly teaches at workshops and festivals across Europe. In winter 2023, he initiated the SuperJam in Berlin, an annual event dedicated to Contact Improvisation enthusiasts.
Antoine is also a certified Rolfing® practitioner.
In 2014, he co-founded the annual Movement Artisans program at LAKE Studios Berlin.
www.movementartisans.net


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Astrid Le Jeune [FR] co-founded the Cie Du Haut with her sister in 2015: a joyful space for research-creation where they take dance to places where it is not expected, blurring the boundaries between danced gestures and everyday life.
She has been practicing improvisation for over fifteen years, particularly Contact Improvisation (I. Üski, M. Gaudeau, S. Auberville, N. Stark Smith, N. Little...) which has reshaped her relationship with the body and movement, focusing on connection and touch.
Since 2017, Astrid has been training in somatic practices (D.U. in Somatic Education at Lyon 2018 / Labo du F.A.R. in Paris 2019 / training in S.P.P. (fasciatherapy) in Clermont-Ferrand 2022).
Curious about martial practices, both its sensitive and chaotic spaces of struggle and its emotional resonances, she has been training in Systema since 2020.
https://www.cieduhaut.fr/


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Catherine Kych [FR] has been dancing for over thirty years. Classical dance is her common thread, but in search of spaces for freedom, play, and sharing, she dove into Contact Improvisation in 2007.
She became enthusiastic about this non-normative practice, which offered the opportunity to meet others—first through touch and movement, then through words—and to build and deconstruct the world with them.
Along the way, she acquired various tools to deepen her dance and support practices: training in Dance and Movement Therapy (including NVC tools and Danis Bois's perceptive pedagogy), a D.U. in Dance and Somatic Education from Paris VIII, and training in Explicitation Interview, which turned out to be the tool she needed to help dancers articulate their experiences.
Since then, she has been an active member of GREX (www.grex2.com), the research group on explicitation founded by Pierre Vermersch.
Recently, she completed a D.U. in Medicine, Meditation, and Neuroscience in Strasbourg, expanding her practical and theoretical knowledge on attention—particularly in meditative practices.
Finally, Catherine recently trained in Ericksonian hypnosis to better understand the links between imagination, perception, language, and relationship, and how they influence the mechanisms of creation, learning, and change.


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Stéphanie Auberville, improviser and choreographer based in Brussels.
She has been practicing improvisation since the early 1990s. She was influenced by the teachings of artists such as Lisa Nelson, Deborah Hay, Simone Forti, and Nancy Stark Smith.
In 2002, she met Nita Little and became her assistant from 2005 to 2009. She has been teaching Contact Improvisation and improvisation since 2003, through weekly classes (in Paris from 2004 to 2012) and workshops.
She has been invited to teach in Metz, Tours, Marseille, at the Grenoble Festival, Rennes Festival, Freiburg Festival, WCCIF in San Francisco, in Budapest, Paris, Brussels at the Tic Tac Art Center, and as part of the Bachelier Danse Interprétation program in Charleroi and at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Bruxelles.
Since 1995, she has organized workshops with Nita Little (2004-2011), Frey Faust (1995-1999), Ralf Jaroschinski (2011-2012), research labs, jams at Tic Tac Art Center (2019-2025), and meetings (BIP: Brussels invites Paris, PIB: Paris invites Brussels).
Her teaching is based on working with perceptions and often takes the form of a research process shared with the participants.
www.stephanieauberville.com

> Practical information
The bus that links Brest (the station we recommend you arrive at), the various seaside campsites and the practice hall is the 920. Here are its timetables: timetable summer 2025 - line 920

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Prices:
- Until June 26, 2025: 220€ normal rate / 240€ support rate (to support reduced rates) / 200€ reduced rate
- From June 26, 2025: single rate at 240€.
Cancellation policy: In the event of cancellation up to June 26, 2025, half the amount paid will be refunded. In the event of cancellation after June 26, 2025, no refund will be made.

Location (marked with a red dot on the map): Complexe Sportif de Kroaz Kenan, 134 Kroaz Kenan, 29880 Plouguerneau GPS point