danceWEB is looking for an Austrian based dance/performance artist/dance writer/dance teacher/visual artist interested in research to participate in EXERCE with Rémy Héritier at Agora, Cité internationale de la Danse in Montpellier this March!

Application ends on 08 February 2026.

About EXERCE

Initiated in 2011 by a. o. Mathilde Monnier the master programme EXERCE is an internationally recognised training programme, accompanying artists - choreographers, performers - who are the authors of their dance projects and research. EXERCE is currently led by choreographers and dance artists Katerina Andreou (Prix Jardin d’Europe at ImPulsTanz 2026 in the frame of the [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series) and Myrto Katsiki.

When: 16–20 March 2026

Where: Agora, Cité internationale de la Danse, Montpellier (FR)

About: Participation in an EXERCE seminar with choreographer and dancer Rémy Héritier to the topic: What are the tools of composition—links between production, arrangement, and handling of a material?Rémy Héritier proposes a laboratory with the notion of collaboration at the center opening the group’s engagement in joint reflection varying according to intentions and needs. Starting points will be fragments of works and practices of the participants, accompanying the process with the texts Attentions collapsonautes by Yves Citton and On Nonscalability by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

Next to his own works as a choreographer and dancer, Rémy Héritier has been performing since 1999 with renowned performance artists and choreographers such as Philipp Gehmacher (last time in windows, doors, no hindsight at TQW Vienna in December 2023), Ian Kaler, Meg Stuart, Mathilde Monnier, Jennifer Lacey, and Boris Charmatz.

Read more about Rémy Héritier here. 

The offer includes:
+ travel
+ accommodation
+ per diem or meals
+ studio time

Who can apply:  Dance/performance artists/dance writers/dance teachers/visual artists coming from and/or residing inAustria are eligible to apply.
The programme is ideal for artists interested in research.

Application requirements: 
Please send
– a motivation letter, max. 1 page
– a current CV, max. 1 page

to danceWEB: office(at)danceweb.eu. danceWEB and Agora, Cité internationale de la Danse will implement the selection together.
All documents need to be sent in English.

Application ends on 08 February 2026.

The selected participant must provide a written feedback report after participation!

Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse is the only Choreographic Centre in the newly established region Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée – there are 19 Choreographic Centres in France. They are the cross-roads between a wide-reaching artistic movement and a cultural policy for spatial planning, between the French government and local authorities.
Since autumn 2025, CCN Occitanie and the Festival Montpellier Danse are merged to form Agora – Cité Internationale de la Danse.

In French, the word 'agencement' describes both, the combination of things and the relationships which bond the structure and parts of any composed artwork. From a certain perspective, an 'agencement' or assemblage could be understood as a form of collaboration and cooperation between materials and multiple protagonists (dancers, spectators, the space and the context in the broadest sense) which inform each other about the content they convey. An assemblage is also certainly an ecosystem, in which each element enables the others to contribute to the whole without any notion of hierarchy.

In our choreographic practices, we all know how to create something. However, what we must continually rework is our capacity to receive from what we produce and turn it into an experiment. In other words, we must remain constantly active in responding to the question: 'What does what I do do to me?'

I propose that we imagine this week-long workshop as a laboratory of assemblage, in which collaboration and cooperation are at the heart of the process. Rather than putting together a generic toolbox, the idea is to give ourselves the opportunity to make use of shared reflections, allowing them to vary according to our intentions and needs. It will be a week in which we move away from authorship/signature to focus on contribution.

We will use fragments of our respective works and practices as our points of departure. What does this cohabitation of differences in the studio enable or prevent?

Rémy Héritier was born in France and lives in Paris. He has created more than a dozen pieces since 2004 which, by extending the boundaries of choreographic art towards intertextuality or documentation, evoke new poetics of movement. He favors both long-term processes and site specific interventions to produce modes of expression that belong as much to the realm of performance as to that of exhibition. Dispositions (2008), Chevreuil (2009), Une étendue (2011), Percée Persée (2014), Here, then (2015), Une danse ancienne (Prilly, Grenoble, Cajarc – 2020-…), Une forme brève (2021), L’usage du terrain (2018-22), and Un monde réel (2025) have been regularly shown in France and abroad, both in and outside of theaters. 

At the same time, he is developing his research activity at La Manufacture (Lausanne) with Une danse ancienne (2019-23); Figure, que donne à voir une danse? (M. Bouvier, L. Touzé, pourunatlasdesfigures.net, 2016-17); and Composition (Y. Chapuis, M. Gourfink, J. Perrin, 2016-19), which resulted in the book Composer en danse – Un vocabulaire des opérations et des pratiques (Composing in Dance: A Vocabulary of Operations and Practices). En studio (Performing Knowledge – Marion Boudier, Chloé Déchery 2026)

He has taught numerous workshops at Atelier de Paris CDCN, University of Paris 8, Beaux Arts de Paris, School for Landscape Design of Versailles, TanzQuartierWien, EXERCE, Çati Dans Istanbul, Tsekh Dance Summer School Moscow…

He was a visiting professor at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Clermont Métropole from 2018–21.

In 2023–24, he studied at SPEAP, the Master's degree in political arts experimentation founded by Bruno Latour at Sciences Po Paris. 

Since 1999, he has regularly performed for Boris Charmatz, Laurent Chétouane, DD Dorvillier, Philipp Gehmacher, Jennifer Lacey, Mathilde Monnier, Laurent Pichaud Loïc Touzé…

remyheritier.net /// @remyheritier