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The Season 2004/2005 was marked by the tenth birthday of the creation of the CDC. To celebrate this event, the CDC inaugurated in january the international festival It is Contemporary Dance, joining together during more than three weeks about fifteen European companies and non-European like Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker (Belgium), Emio Greco (Italy), Sasha Waltz (Germany), Malavika Sarukkaï (India), Heddy Maalem (France), Wim Vandekeybus (Belgium), Via Katlehong Dance (South Africa), ...
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The public will be able to find this festival every year.
Another strong time March celebrating this birthday: the demonstration Dances in Area based on the desire for better making known the work of the choreographers installed in Midday-Pyrenees area. This demonstration gathered 18 companies which presented their last parts in different theatres of the area
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The spectators could realize of the richness of the choreographic activity to the Midday-Pyrenees in particular with five new creations presented.
This demonstration was also the occasion to specify a collaboration with the Aquitanian Area, in particular the OARA with which inaugurates prospects for long-term exchanges . 

The third powerful moment took place in May and was devoted to the issue of transmission and training in contemporary dancing with the creation of a visual and sonorous installation called
To Lose/Perdre by Pascal Rambert with the trainees of the Professional Training of the CDC. 

And also with avec the transmission by Samuel Mathieu, ex-dancer of the Emile Dubois company, of an extract of the play Ulysse by Jean-Claude Gallotta to the students of the CNR.

The collaboration with the Printemps de Septembre within the framework of the Soirées Nomades went on with the creation by Hélène Iratchet of En privé à Babylone and the preview of White Trash by Benoît Lacambre and Isabelle Schad.
Furthermore, Jan Fabre has been invited with his play L’Ange de la mort at the Cloître des Jacobins.

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