POB is not a touring company (there is also Paris in the title of the company)... They travel a little though. this year they are doing a visit to Brittany and the past years, they have gone to Grenoble, Montpellier, Biarritz, Créteil.
I think that behind the idea of certain people to create a contemporary dance group is to focus on the classical group
I do believe it’s interesting to have a repertoire of different nature when you have a company of 154 dancers and about 150 shows a year. If all the dancers entering the corps at 18 can believe they can make their way to the top of classical ballet, they’re not going to become all soloists! It’s a good way to diversify your activity, sometimes at the top of a certain repertoire while you are a cygnet or a character artist the rest of the time. It may also be that being a cygnet sometimes, that is practicing classical technique at a very high level, makes you better in contemporary, or at least gives you that particularity (that some don’t like but I do) to be a “special” contemporary dancer because of your classical background. It gives you also some rewards employs people at their best.
Paris Opera Ballet has an obligation of diversity in its repertoire anyway in its mandate.