The Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse, is a building listed on the inventory of historic monuments. It has served successively as a convent, a women’s prison, and a barracks… and is now entirely dedicated to dance. Its walls bear witness to a history of the body, particularly that of women—bodies that were once constrained, mistreated, and confined. Today, the Agora is a place of freedom, of bodily emancipation, of open-mindedness, of tolerance, of inclusion, and of sharing.
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