The idea for Inverdance came to you during confinement… Can you tell us more about the genesis of this ambitious project?
Mae : With my status as a coach, and the fact that I am hyper active, it was hard to stay without doing anything. I think that many French people had the feeling, during COVID, of being blocked, that life had stopped. And even more so, I, with my students, still wanted to continue to make them work, to try a little to change their minds, just like me. I filmed myself, I put it on the network and the students, my friends, girlfriends, because they’re not just students, they’re also friends, did the same thing again and I promised them, at the end of confinement, to rent a room and do a mega choreography all together. We did it and for me, for us, it was a revelation. And it was from there that I decided to open my school, to drop everything by founding the Inverdance association in 2022
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How did this idea come to your mind?
It was a friend who gave me this inversion stool, and who told me: “If you can do inverted dancing, it will be a bit like synchronized swimming, except you are out of the water. It really started from there, and afterward, it’s true that being eight, at least a group, and creating a choreography all together, that brings something, but a dancer can also dance without it. having done synchronized swimming before. It’s really dance, expression. I think it really came from there. I wanted to express my loneliness and my dismay in the face of this confinement, because when. I was postpartum, it was a complicated period and I had to change my mind, move on to something else, bounce back. It got me out of that bad phase in life, so to speak. you move forward or you don’t. I decided to move forward and create something that no one had done…
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