Scenario Cité Internationale de la Danse. Maïwenn Rebours is responsible for press Montpellier Danse. The Agora, international city of dance is a listed building in a historic building that houses two independent, but work well for the development of dance: The National Choreographic Center of Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, directed by Mathilde Monnier. Montpellier Dance festival season, led by Jean-Paul Montanari. In the present site of the agora, international city of dance, was founded in 1357 in a convent was partially destroyed in 1562. Will succeed, since the Middle Ages, three religious communities before the order of St. Ursula did not come to found a new convent in 1641. The nuns will stay there until the French Revolution take responsibility for the education of girls. It was between 1654 and 1680 the building, as we know it today is built. It takes the form of a large square in the center with a cloister around which grow three main buildings: a chapel (now the Hall Béjart) cells and in aulas.En 1680, the convent is growing a garden (which now is the Agora Theatre). In the French Revolution, the building was declared a "national patrimony" and owned by the State. In 1804 the institution became a prison for "put to shame, detention and correctional convicted of seven departments:. Ardèche, Aude, Aveyron, Gard, Hérault, Lozère and the Pyrenees Orientales" An imperial decree required when the work of appropriation. The most notable of this company is building in 1810 in the Roundabout Theatre Castries Agora stone today. That same year, the building becomes a central house of detention of women. Many reports say that the poor conditions of detention, lack of hygiene and discipline "liberated". To remedy this, the nuns are called back into the building. They are responsible for school education of inmates, but only in general compulsory labor influence the disorder observado.En 1934, the government dismissed the Central House of Montpellier in 1935, became a military barracks building as Grossetti. Install the center of the German Gestapo interrogation resistance. After receiving the services of the Directorate of Public Works Engineering, the information of the antenna of the Air Force and military security, the building was acquired in 1986 by the City of Montpellier.C is in 1991 that the building was included in the inventory of historical monuments.