Soirée d’études was born out of Cassiel Gaube’s passion for the  vocabulary of house dance, an urban dance he articulates with  contemporary dance. Conceived as a series of short, nested pieces, this  choreographic “evening” is a duet for three. It was devised with the  dancer Diego “Odd Sweet” Dolciami in mind, who was then joined by  Federica “Mia” Miani, the performers taking it in turns to compose  different duets.
Based on an attempt to map the lexicon of the steps that make up house dance, Soirée d’études  deconstructs these steps so as to better play with them. From its  characteristic jacking to the rocking of the torso, the ingredients of  this style are reappraised through the prism of an encounter between two  bodies. In music, a study is viewed as an opportunity to explore the  possibilities of a technique; here, Cassiel Gaube, inspired in  particular by the works of Bruno Beltrão and William Forsythe, probes  the bodily and musical logic of his favourite type of dance.

Source : programme of the CND

Born in Belgium, the dancer and choreographer Cassiel Gaube graduated  from the P.A.R.T.S. school (Brussels) in 2016. As a performer, he has  worked with Benjamin Vandewalle, Fabrice Samyn and Manon Santkin, and he  spent three years learning house dance in Paris and New York. As an  associate artist at the Ménagerie de Verre (Paris) in 2019 and 2020, he  created the solo Farmer Train Swirl – Étude (2019) and initiated an ongoing collaboration with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

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.).