The CDC
The CDC : An alternative to the National Choreographic Centres
In the 1980’s, a group of National Choreographic Centres (CCN) was set up to address the need to find new structures and innovative facilities for French choreographic creativity. Today there are 19 such centres throughout the country and each of them is directed by a choreographer who has established his own dance company within the centre.
Toulouse
In 1984, Joseph Russillo and his company established themselves in Toulouse. The policy of cultural decentralization extended to dance, and the American choreographer was given the mission to open a new National Choreographic Centre in the South-West.
Twelve years on, the concept of a CCN directed by an artist was no longer appropriate in Toulouse and the institutional partners agreed to set up a new model. Thus in 1995 the Toulouse Midi-Pyrenées Centre for the Development of Choreography was born. Directed since its creation by Annie Bozzini, it has opened its doors to existing regional companies, as well as to national and international groups, who have found in it a new centre for research, work and exchange.
The city of Toulouse, the DRAC (Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles) and the Regional Council of the Midi-Pyrenées are the public partners of this new organization.
 The Mission
of the Toulouse / Midi-Pyrenées CDC
The objective of the CDC is to encourage all forms of creation in the field of choreography, in Toulouse and in the Midi-Pyrenées region as well as on a national and international scale. Its primary missions are :
• To heighten public awareness of
contemporary dance regionally,
nationally and internationally
by the production and the promotion
of established and new works.
• To train professional dancers.
• To create and organize a dance
information centre.
• To create and organize a resource centre
specialising in dancing as a profession.
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