CCN BALLET DE LORRAINE - MAUD LE PLADEC
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About CCN Ballet de Lorraine
As of 2011 the Centre Chorégraphique National (CCN) – Ballet de Lorraine is under the general and artistic direction of Maud Le Pladec from January 1st 2025. The company has a long and varied history, having passed from contemporary dance company to classical ballet. Starting in 1999, with the re-establishing of its original label of a National Choreographic Centre, it began a period of focus toward, and as of 2011, dedication to contemporary dance, its history and practices.
About Maud Le Pladec
After completing her training at the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier, Maud Le Pladec performed for several choreographers such as Georges Appaix, Loïc Touzé, Mathilde Monnier, Mette Ingvartsen and Boris Charmatz.
In 2010, she created her first piece Professor (Choreographic Revelation Prize from the Syndicat de la Critique), the first part of a diptych based on the music of Fausto Romitelli, then in 2011, she created the second part: Poetry.
In 2013, Maud Le Pladec was a laureate of the Hors les Murs program of the Institut français and conducted research in New York on the American post-minimalist music movement that gave birth to Democracy with the Ensemble TaCtuS and Concrete with the Ensemble Ictus.
In 2015, she initiated a new cycle of creations around the voice given to women by co-creating Hunted with the New York performer Okwui Okpokwasili.
In 2016, she worked at the Paris National Opera on the staging of Eliogabalo by Thomas Jolly and under the musical direction of Leonardo García Alarcón.
At the same time, Maud Le Pladec is an associate artist at La Briqueterie — CDCN du Val-de-Marne.
In January 2017, she succeeded Josef Nadj as director of the Centre chorégraphique national of Orléans.
Since then, she has created Borderline with director Guy Cassiers, the solo Moto-Cross, Je n’ai jamais eu envie de disparu with author Pierre Ducrozet and Twenty-seven perspectives for the Montpellier Danse Festival 2018. In 2021, she presented Static shot with the CCN — Ballet de Lorraine, and counting stars with you (women’s music), a creation dedicated to musical matrimony. And in 2022, she created Silent Legacy at the Avignon Festival.
At the invitation of Thomas Jolly, director and artistic director of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Ceremonies, she contributes alongside him as dance director and signs several choreographies for the Opening Ceremony which takes place on the Seine. Maud Le Pladec is a knight in the Order of Arts and Letters and in the National Order of Merit.
In January 2025, Maud Le Pladec will take up her new role as director of the CCN – Ballet de Lorraine.
Maud Le Pladec and CCN Ballet de Lorraine tour dates 2025
November 2025
15 Static Shot by Ballet de Lorraine – Conde Duque, Madrid (ES)
16 Static Shot by Ballet de Lorraine – Conde Duque, Madrid (ES)
28 Static Shot by Ballet de Lorraine – Le Manère, Maubeuge (FR)
December 2025
04 Static Shot by Ballet de Lorraine – Le Carreau, Forbach (FR)
January 2025
15 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR)
16 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR)
17 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR)
18 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR)
23 Silent Legacy – CCAM, Nancy (FR)
24 Silent Legacy – CCAM, Nancy (FR)
27 Silent Legacy – Carreau du Temple, Paris (FR)
28 Silent Legacy – Carreau du Temple, Paris (FR)
28 Ballet de Lorraine/ Twelve Ton Rose + Static Shot – Le Cratère, Alès (FR)
29 Silent Legacy – Carreau du Temple, Paris (FR)
29 Ballet de Lorraine/ Twelve Ton Rose + Static Shot – Le Cratère, Alès (FR)
February 2025
01 Silent Legacy – Kaserne Basel, Basel (CH)
01 Ballet de Lorraine / Malon + Static Shot – Théâtre Jean Vilar, Suresnes (FR)
02 Silent Legacy – Kaserne Basel, Basel (CH)
02 Ballet de Lorraine / Malon + Static Shot – Théâtre Jean Vilar, Suresnes (FR)
05 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – Tandem, Douai (FR)
06 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – Tandem, Douai (FR)
10 Counting stars with you – Equillibrio festival – Roma (IT)
13 Ballet de Lorraine / Malon + Static Shot – La Coursive, La Rochelle (FR)
14 Ballet de Lorraine / Malon + Static Shot – La Coursive, La Rochelle (FR)
14 Silent Legacy – Harbourfront Center, Toronto (CA)
15 Silent Legacy – Harbourfront Center, Toronto (CA)
20 Ballet de Lorraine/ A Folia + Static Shot – Centro Cultural De Belém, Lisbon (PT)
20 Silent Legacy – National Arts Center, Ottawa (CA)
21 Silent Legacy – National Arts Center, Ottawa (CA)
21 Ballet de Lorraine/ A Folia + Static Shot – Centro Cultural De Belém, Lisbon (PT)
22 Ballet de Lorraine/ A Folia + Static Shot – Centro Cultural De Belém, Lisbon (PT)
22 Silent Legacy – National Arts Center, Ottawa (CA)
25 Silent Legacy – Danse Danse, Montreal (CA)
26 Silent Legacy – Danse Danse, Montreal (CA)
27 Silent Legacy – Danse Danse, Montreal (CA)
28 Silent Legacy – Danse Danse, Montreal (CA)
March 2025
01 Silent Legacy – Danse Danse, Montreal (CA)
21 Ballet de Lorraine/ Acid Gems + A Folia – Opéra de Lorraine, Nancy (FR)
22 Ballet de Lorraine/ Acid Gems + A Folia – Opéra de Lorraine, Nancy (FR)
23 Ballet de Lorraine/ Acid Gems + A Folia – Opéra de Lorraine, Nancy (FR)
April 2025
10 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – La Rampe, Echirolles (FR)
May 2025
05 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – La Villette, Paris (FR)
06 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – La Villette, Paris (FR)
07 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – La Villette, Paris (FR)
21 Ballet de Lorraine / Malon + A Folia – Concertgebouw, Brugge (BE)
31 Ballet de Lorraine / A Folia + Static Shot – Festpsielhaus, Bregenz (CH)
June 2025
05 Ballet de Lorraine/ A Folia + Static Shot – Arsenal, Metz (FR)
Photo: Laurent Philippe