
CCN BALLET DE LORRAINE - MAUD LE PLADEC
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About CCN Ballet de Lorraine
As of 2011 the Centre Chorégraphique National (CCN) – Ballet de Lorraine is under the general and artistic direction of Maud Le Pladec from January 1st 2025. The company has a long and varied history, having passed from contemporary dance company to classical ballet. Starting in 1999, with the re-establishing of its original label of a National Choreographic Centre, it began a period of focus toward, and as of 2011, dedication to contemporary dance, its history and practices.
About Maud Le Pladec
After completing her training at the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier, Maud Le Pladec performed for several choreographers such as Georges Appaix, Loïc Touzé, Mathilde Monnier, Mette Ingvartsen and Boris Charmatz.
In 2010, she created her first piece Professor (Choreographic Revelation Prize from the Syndicat de la Critique), the first part of a diptych based on the music of Fausto Romitelli, then in 2011, she created the second part: Poetry.
In 2013, Maud Le Pladec was a laureate of the Hors les Murs program of the Institut français and conducted research in New York on the American post-minimalist music movement that gave birth to Democracy with the Ensemble TaCtuS and Concrete with the Ensemble Ictus.
In 2015, she initiated a new cycle of creations around the voice given to women by co-creating Hunted with the New York performer Okwui Okpokwasili.
In 2016, she worked at the Paris National Opera on the staging of Eliogabalo by Thomas Jolly and under the musical direction of Leonardo García Alarcón.
At the same time, Maud Le Pladec is an associate artist at La Briqueterie — CDCN du Val-de-Marne.
In January 2017, she succeeded Josef Nadj as director of the Centre chorégraphique national of Orléans.
Since then, she has created Borderline with director Guy Cassiers, the solo Moto-Cross, Je n’ai jamais eu envie de disparu with author Pierre Ducrozet and Twenty-seven perspectives for the Montpellier Danse Festival 2018. In 2021, she presented Static shot with the CCN — Ballet de Lorraine, and counting stars with you (women’s music), a creation dedicated to musical matrimony. And in 2022, she created Silent Legacy at the Avignon Festival.
At the invitation of Thomas Jolly, director and artistic director of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Ceremonies, she contributes alongside him as dance director and signs several choreographies for the Opening Ceremony which takes place on the Seine. Maud Le Pladec is a knight in the Order of Arts and Letters and in the National Order of Merit.
In January 2025, Maud Le Pladec will take up her new role as director of the CCN – Ballet de Lorraine.
SEASON 2026/2027
September 2026
22 Works + Fugue + Turning Burning + Synchronicité – MilanOltre, Milano (IT)
23 Works + Fugue + Turning Burning + Synchronicité – MilanOltre, Milano (IT)
October 2026
13 Static Shot + A Folia – La Passerelle, St Brieuc (FR)
15 Static Shot + A Folia – Quai 9, Lanester (FR)
November 2026
10 Rave + L’Age D’or, Opéra de Lorraine, Nancy (FR)
11 Rave + L’Age D’or, Opéra de Lorraine, Nancy (FR)
13 Rave + L’Age D’or, Opéra de Lorraine, Nancy (FR) Scolaire
14 Rave + L’Age D’or, Opéra de Lorraine, Nancy (FR)
15 Rave + L’Age D’or, Opéra de Lorraine, Nancy (FR)
18 Veins of Water, Fondation EDF / Dans(e) la lumière #3, Paris (FR)
19 Veins of Water, Fondation EDF / Dans(e) la lumière #3, Paris (FR)
20 Veins of Water, Fondation EDF / Dans(e) la lumière #3, Paris (FR)
24 Veins of Water, CCAM, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (FR)
25 Veins of Water, CCAM, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (FR)
26 Veins of Water, CCAM, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (FR)
28 Static Shot + A Folia – Le Carré, Ste Maxime (FR)
December 2026
4 Concerto danzante – La Seine Musicale, Paris (FR)
5 Concerto danzante – La Seine Musicale, Paris (FR)
6 Concerto danzante – La Seine Musicale, Paris (FR)
17 Rave + L’Age D’or– ABC, Bar-le-Duc (FR)
January 2027
7 Static Shot + A Folia, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LX)
8 Static Shot + A Folia, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LX)
26 Rave + L’Age D’or – Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR)
27 Rave + L’Age D’or – Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR)
28 Rave + L’Age D’or – Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR)
29 Rave + L’Age D’or – Maison de la Danse, Lyon (FR)
February 2027
4 Concerto danzante – Concertgebouw, Brugge (BE)
March 2027
3 Works + Turning Burning I Teatri, Reggio Emilia (FR)
25 Static Shot + A Folia – Théâtre de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (FR)
26 Static Shot + A Folia – Théâtre de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (FR)
31 Rave + L’Age D’or, l’Espal, Le Mans (FR)
April 2027
1 Rave + L’Age D’or, l’Espal, Le Mans (FR)
6 Concerto danzante, Opéra de Dijon (FR)
10 Concerto danzante, Cité Musicale, Metz (FR)
May 2027
11 Cacti, Opéra de Nancy, Nancy (FR)
12 Cacti , Opéra de Nancy, Nancy (FR)
14 Cacti, Opéra de Nancy, Nancy (FR)
15 Cacti, Opéra de Nancy, Nancy (FR)
16 Cacti, Opéra de Nancy, Nancy (FR)
28 Works + The Fugue + Turning Burning + Veins of Water – Le Tandem, Douai (FR)
June 2027
15 Rave + L’Age d’or, Thêatre de la Ville/Thêatre National de Chaillot, Paris (FR) Option
16 Rave + L’Age d’or, Thêatre de la Ville/Thêatre National de Chaillot, Paris (FR)
17 Rave + L’Age d’or, Thêatre de la Ville/Thêatre National de Chaillot, Paris (FR)
18 Rave + L’Age d’or, Thêatre de la Ville/Thêatre National de Chaillot, Paris (FR)
19 Rave + L’Age d’or, Thêatre de la Ville/Thêatre National de Chaillot, Paris (FR)
21 Rave + L’Age d’or, Thêatre de la Ville/Thêatre National de Chaillot, Paris (FR)
22 Rave + L’Age d’or, Thêatre de la Ville/Thêatre National de Chaillot, Paris (FR)
23 Rave + L’Age d’or, Thêatre de la Ville/Thêatre National de Chaillot, Paris (FR)
Photo: Laurent Philippe