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Danse en Ile de  France - Press Dossier



Founded in 1993 by the choreographer, Cécile Däniker, the Association D.I.F. (Danse en Ile de France) offers an original and dynamic project, to attract and welcome young persons who wish to contribute their knowledge related directly, indirectly or theoretically to Dance and thereby contribute to an integral production.


Who is  Cécile Däniker?

An American choreographer, Swiss by heritage and French by naturalization who has adopted France and has a passion for Ballet and theatrical production.


Immersed in the world of entertainment as of a young age, winner of ice skating competitions, holder of five international figure skating gold medals, USA Eastern States champion, she was the first American to win the International Nebelhorn trophy in Oberstdorf Bavaria and the only one to achieve in 30 years Great Britain’s Inter-Gold medal. Due to an unforeseen accident, her skating career came to a sudden end.

But since,

“Dance is the most sublime, the most moving, the most beautiful of all the arts, because it is a simple abstraction of life, for it is life itself.” (H. Ellis)

And since Cécile Däniker studied dance in parallel to her figure skating, she overcame this obstacle in her career of a skater and found another road to artistic creation and the world of theatrical production returning through the  career of a classical dancer and choreographer.


The opportunity to work with some of the large companies such as American Ballet Theater and Béjart, offered a chance to assimilate a wide variety of styles along with continuing to deepen her knowledge and technique of classical dance which she had studied under Elisabeth Ivantsova- Anderson (Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow), Vera Nemtchinova (Les Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev) and Raymond Franchetti (Opéra de Paris).


As director, choreographer and dancer of her own company in New York, (CD Productions), she taught dancers, mounted choreography, studied the history of ballet and found a way to use her experience and communicate her passion for ballet through the creation of dance productions..


Thus developed the impetus to found D.I.F. “Danse en Ile de France” since the Ile de France is the royal cradle of French Ballet, born with all its nobility at the Académie Royale de Danse at the court of the Roi Soleil, Louis XIV, nourished in the beautiful traditions of classical, baroque, romantic, neo-classical, preserved in its purity at the heart or immutable institutions, raised to a high level by prestigious masters whose names evoke great moments in the universal history of ballet, “The gods of the Danse” who were Dupré and Vestris. Noverre, considered, “the Shakespeare of the Dance” gave ballet its own pedestal in the form of ballet d’action, an art perpetuated by his disciple, Gardel and all those who were invited to create ballets for the courts of Europe which have continued to enchant international audiences for several centuries.


The establishment of a choreographic production center in Ile de France will contribute to better understanding and practice of the Ballet d’Action, as well as perpetuating a tradition based on the principles specified by Noverre in his “Lettres sur la Danse”(1760).

D.I.F. aims to have an involvement in the following areas:

•     In the cultural and artistic sphere, classical dance is still considered an elitist activity whereas it could have dynamic appeal to a large public especially the young who could find a complimentary aspect to excessive modern technology and science through the dream world of romantic fantasy. D.I.F. would like to reach this public through original programming with a long-term project to create a faithful audience.


•     In the social and economic area, a plan to assist young artists who face unemployment and must surmount the increased difficulties of competition to find a position, their preparation for entry or reentry into the professional world could be facilitated through apprenticeship in D.I.F.


•     From an educational point of view, D.I.F. would like to setup training sessions for professional amateurs and implicate them in production preparation. This would give them first hand experience, which could be an asset to their future careers.


It should not be lost from sight that the best way to encourage young people to meet others from different social, ethnic, geographic and cultural backgrounds is to unite them on the “the Planet of the Arts” and Dance has its important place there.


D.I.F. is ready to welcome, inform, encourage young and not so young who are motivated and would like to participate in the production of a ballet or those who are simply curious and would like to enter into the world of production via scenic design, sound engineering, theatrical accounting, costuming, wig and hairstyling, makeup, video, photography or cultural marketing.