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little girls, and little boys even more
have heard it all before:  
Le Carré d'Art - lil' champions - 13 photos keen to be seen

Lil' champions
Early learning, ages 4-5

photos, texts: ambroise perrin, February 2008
translation: aline lemoine

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"be good, pay careful attention
if one day, you want to be a champion"


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But Le Carré d'Art it's not the Olympics;
no competition, but an initiation with dynamics

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to become awayre of a slow or energetic movement
and discover one's body in an artistic environment


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arms wide open, or folded and head down
there's no hesitation to walk upside down


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Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, the Nutcracker
or Giselle! let's try it all! even better!


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discover, bend and stretch like never before
and it suddenly becomes easy to say "more"


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learn the rules to finally taunt them
pay attention to others to enjoy freedom with them


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no one is the first, the strongest or the best
we're all alchemists of pleasure and rigor - it's a fest


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it's not home, it's not school
we can go crazy, it's so cool


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but more seriously, we're here to learn how to dance
we can learn and have fun, that's really a great chance


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it's the basis, clearly contemporary but also classic
parents expertly love it, they say it's "pedagogic"


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and we definitely love it, we don't want time to go fast
because a dance class with Irena, it's really a blast!