Dance as a cultural vector is the challenge that The What Dance Can Do Project has chosen to take up for the benefit of pupils made vulnerable by their often difficult migratory experiences.

In 2024, the Francis Kurkdjian Endowment Fund renewed its support to continue working with UPE2A and UPE2A NSA pupils at Romain-Rolland secondary school. As a result, 14 weekly creative dance sessions and 6 choreographic creation workshops will be run for these young people, who will receive teaching based on a foundation of basic academic subjects and artistic projects providing keys to cultural understanding.

These creative sessions will be enhanced by cultural outings and public performances by the students.

In addition, in 2024, the project will open a new chapter with the modeling and transmission of the "Dance and Inclusion" project.

The aim is to broaden the scope of the project by training and passing on to 3 or 4 choreographers with different profiles the skills and know-how needed to "speak out" to this sensitive audience. The aim is to achieve artistic, participatory and collaborative success.

The programme includes a series of workshops, led by Rodolphe Fouillot, consisting of training workshops with the choreographers alone and choreographic creation workshops with the beneficiaries of the programme.

The aim of modeling and transmission is to ensure continuity at the Collège Romain Rolland. In this way, it offers pupils the benefit of a programme for the 2024/25 school year, enriched by past learning. It also means that the programme can be extended to a larger number of young people who have recently arrived in France, and who are often under-represented in artistic and cultural education projects.