July 8, 2026 – July 11, 2026
The project p/\rc__ (Parc), conceived by choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing and the company Shōnen, continues the work carried out with the Collection Lambert around inclusion and care.
Bringing together robots, children with motor disabilities, and professional dancers, the audience is invited to wander through this utopian park at the heart of the collections.
It is a choreography in which the dialogue of bodies expresses solidarity between able-bodied performers and children with disabilities, maintained through constant, attentive listening. Around and with them, telepresence robots remotely operated by physically limited participants join the dance.
BIOGRAPHY
Éric Minh Cuong Castaing (born 1979 in Seine‑Saint‑Denis, France) is a choreographer, visual artist, and artistic director renowned for his transdisciplinary research combining dance, visual arts, and contemporary technologies. He graduated from Les Gobelins – L’École de l’Image in Paris, after which he worked for several years as a graphic designer in animated cinema before dedicating himself fully to dance and artistic creation.
In 2007, he founded the company Shōnen, which became the main framework for his artistic work: a choreographic and visual platform exploring the relationships between bodies, movement, and technologies—including robots, drones, and telepresence—through what he calls the “in socius” process, involving creative collaborations with institutions outside the art world (hospitals, research laboratories, NGOs, medico-educational institutions, etc.).
Éric Minh Cuong Castaing’s practice blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, nature and culture, organic and artificial, engaging diverse types of bodies—professional, amateur, or with disabilities—and questioning the representation of movement and perception.
Within his company, he has developed around fifteen creations—including performances, films, and installations—some in collaboration with dramaturge Marine Relinger, choreographer Aloun Marchal, or stage director Anne‑Sophie Turion.
He is an artist-in-residence or associate artist at several cultural institutions: he was an associate artist at the Ballet National de Marseille (2016–2019), at the Comédie de Valence (2020–2024), and is also associated with Montpellier Danse, the Centre National de la Création Adaptée (CNCA) in Morlaix, the Bourges European Capital of Culture 2028 project, and the Collection Lambert in Avignon.
His work has been presented in numerous national and international contexts, including festivals, performance spaces, and visual art institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, the Centre Pompidou, and the Festival de Marseille, combining dance, imagery, and technology to explore the role of the body, movement, and social relations in the contemporary world.