From September 2019 through January 2020, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

with Sophiatou Kossoko

Semester registration (11 classes): 100 €

Free tryout session:

Saturday, September 21, 2019

This weekly class is for amateurs who wish to practice contemporary dance on a regular basis. Both technical and creative, the Saturday morning course is given by the same instructor throughout the semester.

Classes for the first semester will be held 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

from Saturday, September 21, 2019 through Saturday, January 25, 2020.

Exceptionally, certain classes will instead take place 9 a.m. – 11 a.m.


As a choreographer, Sophiatou Kossoko renews her creative processes by linking dance with other artistic disciplines, with musicians in relationship with other world cultures. In her works, common space and intimate space confront and meet, where the body comes into play as a symbolic bond.

Sophiatou’s teaching places a strong emphasis on the musicality of gesture, on its transformation and appropriation. Examining the concepts of anchoring, support, vibration, imbalance and different qualities of a movement. Exploring the different facets of improvisation. Moving playfully towards other fashions of perceiving dance movement. Simultaneously she creates a space for listening in order to intensify sensation and perception.

Sophiatou Kossoko

studied dance at the Doug Cruchfield school in Copenhagen. With a degree in Performing Arts specialising in dance, she continued her studies at the University of Paris 8. She pursued her work, founding the company IGI in 2002, which has been based in Tours since 2012. She works with choreographers, writers, musicians, visual artists, researchers, singers and stage directors from diverse backgrounds (Gérard Gourdot, Bertrand Gauguet, Latifa Laâbissi, Ong Keng Sen, Jérôme Savary, Alvin Ailey). She received an SACD Beaumarchais Choreography Grant for the pieces Mouvements-Lumières and Latactique du vour. In 2002 she choreographed Tchouraï, a solo, for Germaine Acogny. In October 2015, Olivier Dubois invited her to participate in the Danse Windows project, where she created Allégorie. Sophiatou is currently reviving Latifa Laâbissi’s solo Habiter.