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Since 2023, the Classes à Horaires Aménagés Théâtre (CHAT) of the Réseau d'Éducation Prioritaire REP+ Hans Arp have been working on the theme of utopia.

Special Theatre Classes (CHAT) of the REP + priority education network in the Elsau and Montagne Verte districts have been running at the Martin Schongauer elementary school and the Hans Arp middle school since 2010. 

Led by the TJP Centre dramatique national de Strasbourg Grand Est and the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, a hundred students from five classes, from CM to 3e, are working together on an ambitious creative project, accompanied by a dozen artists and teachers. 

Each year, the students get a taste of the stage for two performances at the TJP under professional conditions during the end-of-year highlight.

THE UTOPIA CYCLE

Since 2023, the multidisciplinary artist Delphine Lanson who is in charge of artistic coordination, offering classes the chance to work and play around the theme of utopia.

During the school year 2023-2024this theme has turned to the axis of intimate and personal utopia under the heading You Topie. Accompanied and guided by the artistic and educational teams, the students explored their hopes, desires, ideals and dreams for the future. Drawing on their own intimate writings, ancestral stories and initiation narratives, they revealed a singular point of view on individual utopia.

Visit 2024-2025Delphine Lanson invited the students with Elsautopie or Green Mountain: a path to utopia to explore utopian visions of their changing neighborhoods. The play was written with the invaluable collaboration of the Brouillons Bouillants writers' collective. Support from the Cité Éducative enabled the creation of a 12-minute documentary short directed by Anaïs Baseilhac with the 5th graders, to follow them through the creative process of the show and capture their words and dreams for the neighborhood.

Visit 2025-2026, For the final year of the cycle, students will be tackling the world's utopias with Cosmotopie.

NOTE OF INTENT FROM COSMOTOPIE 
- Anonymous, or perhaps a Utopian of the future
In 1516, Thomas More imagined an ideal island called Utopia.
In 2024, we explored YouTopie, the intimate utopia.
In 2025, Elseautopie paved the way for a neighborhood utopia.
In 2026, we reach the final stop on this journey: Cosmotopia, a utopia for the world.

In a global context marked by crises, climate emergencies and social injustice, what can 11 to 15 year olds propose when asked : 

How about rethinking the world?
What if utopia became a collective responsibility?

For several months, students dream, debate, write, play, laugh, shout, dance, unlearn and reinvent. They project themselves into a world to be (re)constructed differently, a world where borders are diluted, languages are woven, the living take the floor and decisions are made in a circle.

Cosmotopie is a poetic and joyful manifesto, a puzzle of multiple visions, a building site of hope.

From plant societies to children's parliaments, from interstellar utopias to pacts with ancestors, the CHAT students sketch out a cosmogony in which art, the link to the living, justice and beauty are placed at the heart of all action. 

In 2026, Utopians are them. 
Their voices resonate as they imagine a world worthy of their dreams.

Welcome to Cosmotopia!

THE SPEAKERS

DELPHINE LANSON
ARTISTIC COORDINATOR
Actress, author, director and producer, she embraces the complementary nature of the arts. A graduate of the London International School of Acting, she joined the artists' committee of Strasbourg's TJP CDN in 2023, under the direction of Kaori Ito. She is also a lecturer in the Asia-Pacific cycle at Sciences Po and a member of the artistic and pedagogical college of the Centre national des arts du cirque.
She performs in theater, dance and circus shows such as Shakespeare songs by Guillaume de Chassy and Christophe Marguet, Dans le ventre de la ballerine by Jean-Benoît Mollet, Chers and La Parole nochère by Kaori Ito, MA-Créature by Chiharu Mamyia, La Mélodie de l'hippocampe by Cille Lansade, Une Famille singulière by Claire Durand-Drouhin, On m'a trouvé grandie by Valentine Losseau, La Vie de ma mère by Olivier Debelhoir. She is also developing her own productions: Womanhood, Out Of the Blue, Scènes étranges dans une mine d'or, Quinze ans avec Marie N'Dyaie, Utopies Utopies.

SABINE GRISLIN (CM CLASS)
A curious dancer-trapéziste eager for unusual experiences, she collaborates with artists and choreographers such as Renate Pook, Valérie Lamielle, Jörg Müller and Mark Tompkins, explores theater with Jean-Marie Villegier, Jean- Louis Hourdin and Beatriz Gutierrez, and circus with Compagnie Cahin- Caha and Compagnie Flex, with whom she takes part in Chantiers Cirques and goes on mission for Clown sans Frontières.

MANON TEIXEIRA (CM CLASS)
An actress and singer with a passion for directing, she graduated as a projectionist, before working, acting and dancing at Strasbourg's École de Théâtre Physique. At the same time, she joined the Collectif NOUN, with whom she created a number of shows and discovered the street arts. Since 2022, she has been acting, writing and directing for the company Reviens pour discuter.

ANTJE SCHUR (6TH GRADE)
Antje developed her taste for the stage during her training as a visual artist in Dresden, Germany. Arriving in France in 1999, she danced in creations by Cie I.D.A. Mark Tompkins and Cie Man Drake - Toméo Vérges, among others. She is co-artistic director of Cie dégadézo, which she co-founded in Strasbourg in 2002. 

RUDI BERSCHINSKI (6TH AND 3RD GRADES)
A professional actor and performer, he began with improvisation, an acting technique that enabled him to discover the joy of the stage and the joy of acting. After graduating from the Strasbourg Conservatory in 2020, he turned to traditional theater and film. At the Strasbourg Conservatory, he teaches classes with special timetables, with one watchword: above all, have fun!

MARVIN MANGWELE CLECH (5TH GRADE) 
A dancer and performer for some ten years, he discovered dance through hip-hop. Trained at a contemporary dance school in Bordeaux, he then discovered electro dance, a discipline in which he found a place to play, rediscover his body and enjoy dancing. In 2020, he joined the cast of the show Dearby Kaori Ito.

EMMA MASSAUX (CLASSES OF 5E and 4E)
Actress and director with various companies (Matamore, les Insupportés, sans nom - mille visages), transmission has been part of her theatrical practice from the outset. Graduating from the École Régionale d'Acteurs de Cannes et Marseille in 2021, she is pursuing her quest as an artist-educator and is keen to pass on her love of the stage and the joyful demands of acting to young and old alike.

JONATHAN GENET (4TH GRADE)
Trained at the Théâtre National de Bretagne, he has worked with many directors (Stanislas Nordey, Ivica Buljan, Lucie Berelowitsch, Christine Letailleur...). His film credits include Cosmos (A. Zulawski), A knife in the heart (Y. Gonzalez), Operation Libertad (N. Wadimoff), The Damned don't cry (F. Boulifa).

CHRISTINE KOLMER (3RD GRADE)
An actress, visual artist and scenographer exploring the encounter between objects, masks, shadows and puppets, she has been associated with the Les Imaginoires company since 2002. She has created Le Parfait (2023) exploring the feeling of love, Will there be Turkey for Christmas? about believing in your dreams and On the WireThe puppet resonates with the notes of Élodie Peudepiece's cello. 

BROUILLONS BOUILLANTS (WRITING WORKSHOPS)
Brouillons Bouillants is a writing duo from Strasbourg, composed of Camille Arcia and Rémy Bouchinet. Together, they offer playful writing workshops, open to all, whatever their level or writing practice. 

+ MORE INFO 
Project run in partnership with the Strasbourg Conservatory, Hans Arp secondary school and Martin Schongauer elementary school.

CONTACT
Faustine Colombier
fcolombier@tjp-strasbourg.com
06 62 96 68 65

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Thursday June 11 and Friday June 12
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