Groupe de recherche chorégraphique de l'Opéra de Paris (GRCOP)

Le groupe de recherche chorégraphique de l’Opéra de Paris (Paris Opera Choreographic Research Group) is a group of twelve dancers of the  Paris Opera Ballet founded by Jacques Garnier in 1981.
Focusing  on contemporary creation, the GRCOP invites established choreographers  such as Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, Karole Armitage, Lucinda Childs  and young French designers like Régine Chopinot, Maguy Marin, François  Verret, Karine Saporta and Philippe Decouflé, for classically trained  dancers but of contemporary aspiration.
Filling a mission within the Paris Opera, the GRCOP was set up only eight years ago for a metro dance awareness work.