A programme of dedicated events was proposed to the CND in the course of the 2017-18 season to allow professionals to better understand their environment, give impetus to their career, redefine their practices, and develop their projects. L’Amicale de Production accompanied them along this path as a team associated with the Professional Resources department for this 2017-2018 season. A cooperative creative platform and an artistico- methodological laboratory for the devising and proposing of new relationships to the world, art and work, L’Amicale de production publishes cross-cutting forms straddling the visual arts and the performing arts, creative and didactic objects that speak of us, our human condition, and the ability of each of us to act, think and do.  

How to organise our work?
Lists, retro-plannings, e-mails, etc.
Anticipate, order, prioritise, plan, adapt, etc.
Whether you are an artist, author, administrator, production manager, these issues concern you, and solutions remain to be found!

“I propose to present to you La Méthode des flux, which is nothing more than a baroque amalgam of various methods for managing things to do. You should bear in mind that the aim of this method is not to do things better or more quickly, but simply to be pleased with what you do. As such, it seems to me that it works quite well.”
Antoine Defoort   

Source: programme of the CND

Antoine Defoort was born in Lille. Trained as a plastic artist, he has an unfettered and quirky humour. If this guy from Lille, who began by studying maths and performance arts before turning to fine arts, started to take an interest in the performance of the installation, it is because he can store everything that interests him there: sounds, texts, videos, bodies. A surprising piece of work, bordering on digital art, contemporary art and schoolboy jokes.

“After a chaotic mini university experience, I began studying art via a variety of French institutions and I am now the owner of the prestigious Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique (Higher Diploma in Plastic Arts), approved by the French Minister of Culture and Communication, the famous DNSEP diploma, that I obtained in 2004 in my school, called ERSEP in Tourcoing, which, for a laugh, my mates and I called ERPES. During these studies I gradually realized that contemporary art performance was the perfect container for storing all types of miscellaneous contents, and that was just brilliant because miscellany was one of my pet subjects (dada in French), and was, moreover, my references. The purpose of this piece of work is to establish connections. Connections between forms, senses, media, materials. We could say that this is really collections of connections. Or, if you prefer, “collexions”. Failures and approximations are adjusted with care and create a unique line of beauty. Even though I create shows and am invited to dance festivals, I still declare that I am a plastic artist, that I have an approach and I propose a framework that is based on visual art. I have a plan B just in case I fail in my artistic career, but I'm not going to tell you what it is, because if that fails too, then it's lousy. » (Antoine Defoort)

Source: Antoine Defoort 's website

Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).