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NON-FICTION | 3 EPISODES | 2025

Growing up means existing together

They are between 14 and 16 years old. For two years, they have been meeting to share performances, workshops, encounters, and discussions—and little by little, they have built a space of their own. A circle where they can express their doubts, their enthusiasm, their anger, and their dreams.

This collective adventure initiated by the Dance Biennale has given rise to a podcast: three episodes like three snapshots of life, capturing the fragile and powerful moment that is adolescence. We hear voices still searching for themselves, yet daring to ask the big questions: how do you choose your path when everything seems already written? How can you inhabit your body in the face of other people’s gazes and norms? How can you talk about love, consent, and violence without beating around the bush?

Through their trajectories, like planets that brush against and respond to each other, these 17 young people form a sensitive constellation. With confidence and sincerity, their voices express the beauty and difficulty of growing up today.

An audio narrative where the personal blends with the political, where discovering the arts becomes a way of learning to stand tall in the world.

An audio account of adolescence

Directed by Charlotte Boulc’h and Nicolas Lespagnol-Rizzi and produced by Making Waves, this three-part series, each episode lasting 20 minutes, paints a sensitive portrait of 17 teenagers, captured over two years of discoveries, emotions, reflections, and soul-searching.

Episode 1: The Right Shoes

Episode 2 : Becoming On Body

Episode 3 : New Wave

A podcast bye Charlotte Boulc’h and Nicolas Lespagnol-Rizzi

With Aglaé, Ambre, Anna, Chloé, Elsa, Emma, Étienne, Hortense, Isis, Juliette, Lou, Mélie-Eve, Natacha, Nola, Rayane, Syrine et Wilmar

Together with : Charlotte Boulc’h, Marion Coutel, Marie Mulot, Nathalie Prangères

Original music : Nicolas Lespagnol-Rizzi

Production Making Waves : Justine Dibling

Our Trajectories Are Like Planets is produced by the Lyon Biennale and the Maison de la Danse as part of the À TOI! project.

This project is supported by the Fondation pour la danse, housed at the Fondation de France, with sponsorship from Caisse des Dépôts and the April Group.

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