L’Alliance New York presents Caroline Breton’s EUPHORIA on Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 11:30AM and 3PM in Le Skyroom at L’Alliance New York, 22 East 60th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10022. The show is recommended for audiences age 5 and up. Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased at https://lallianceny.org/event/euphoria/. L’Alliance New York is also presenting EUPHORIA to school groups as part of its Young Audience Program (learn more at https://www.lallianceny.org/event/young-audience-program/).

Told through movement, color, and sound, EUPHORIA is a playful dance featuring two half-human, half-owl creatures who explore their environment using movement and sound. Through a poetic metamorphosis, the creatures develop a new understanding of themselves and each other. Created for families with kids as young as five years old, choreographer Caroline Breton invites us to find wonder and joy in the world around us.

About Caroline Breton

Caroline Breton is a choreographer and performer. After studying philosophy, she joined the ERACM national school in Marseille, where she launched an artists’ collective and performed on national stages and at CDN theaters. After ten years working in theater with leading figures such as Robert Wilson, Yves-Noël Genod, Falk Richter and Christiane Jatahy, she pursued her career as a dancer, performing in shows by Marco Berrettini at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Théâtre National de la Danse de Chaillot Paris, Théâtre National de Rome and on tour in shows by Christophe Haleb, Simon Tanguy, Johanna Rocard, and Simone Forti. Three of these pieces were revived at the Watermill Center in New York in 2023.

In 2018, she founded the Karol Karol group with Charles Chemin. They created a series of living dance portraits, including I Hope in 2019, and figures in 2022 at the Ménagerie de Verre and the Watermill Center.

In 2021, she created the dance piece De Natura Rerum at La Pop Paris and Plastique Danse Flore in Versailles and at the Festival d’Avignon.

In 2023, she was awarded the Beaumarchais-SACD Foundation’s dance writing grant and the Watermill Center’s residency program for EUPHORIA, a duo on the meaning of wonder created in March 2025 at L’étoile du nord in Paris and now on international tour. She is currently developing a trio, AGAPÉ, on the power of friendship, which will premiere at the Atelier de Paris – CDCN in March 2027.

Her conception of stage design reflects a sensual, sensitive, and humorous relationship with people and things. She surrounds herself with creators—visual artists, lighting designers, composers—who bring to life this naive, technical, and poetic approach to our shared ecosystems.

Billing Credits

Choreography: Caroline Breton

Performers: Caroline Breton & Olivier Muller

Sound design and performance: Benoist Bouvot

Lighting design: Charles Chemin

Assistant: Agathe Vidal

Costumes & choreographic objects: Chloé Bellemère

Lighting collaboration & stage management: Simon Gautier

Costumes: Alexandra Sebbag

Production Credits

Production: groupe Karol Karol

Co-production: L’étoile du nord – scène conventionnée, KLAP Maison pour la danse à Marseille, Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon

Creation support: DRAC Ile de France – aide au projet, Région Ile de France – aide à la création, Fonds de dotation Francis Kurkdjian, Fondation Beaumarchais– SACD, Caisse des Dépôts – programme danse, La Chaufferie Cie DCA / Philippe Decouflé, la Spedidam, l’Adami

Caroline Breton is a recipient of a choreography grant from Beaumarchais-SACD for EUPHORIA

Residency support: La Ménagerie de Verre Paris, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, CND Pantin – résidence annuelle, The Watermill Center New York, La Chartreuse CNES Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

About L’Alliance New York

Attracting over 150,000 visitors annually, L’Alliance New York is the city’s premier center for French language and francophone arts and cultures. As an independent, not-for-profit organization, L’Alliance New York’s mission is to enrich everyday lives with the spirit of joie de vivre through education, language, and culture. L’Alliance New York is proud to provide its members and students with engaging French language classes and audacious multi-disciplinary programming that celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures and creativity around the world. L’Alliance New York is internationally known for offering the largest selection of fully-immersive French language courses for students aged one to 101, and for its renowned cultural programming including the annual Bastille Day celebration that takes place on New York’s famed Madison Avenue, attracting over 50,000 visitors each year; the Crossing The Line arts and performance festival that engages NYC cultural institutions in bringing dynamic international artists to audiences; Animation First, the biggest animation festival in the U.S; and the Comic Arts Fest, celebrating the intersection of American and francophone comic arts.

#