2021

re:incarnation

In the 1960s’ Fela Kuti, inspired by Black Power and Pan-Africanism, created Afrobeat, a unique blend of West African traditional music, jazz and soul-funk – both genres are also the modern incarnation of long forgotten musical style. Today, a new gen…

Itmahrag

Since the unforgettable Tragédie, Olivier Dubois has been stirring bodies and minds. A ode to freedom, Itmahrag is carried by seven Egyptian dancers and musicians transcended by mahraganat music. Emerging from Cairo's working class neighbourhoods with th…

Dragons

At times, we all feel disappointed by globalisation and its promise of a shared prosperity. Bitterness creeps in when we think of the future and how complex things are. The boisterous Eun-Me Ahn provides us with a wake-up call in the form of conversation…

Koulounisation

When he first went to Algiers, Salim Djaferi visited many bookshops, but couldn’t find what he was looking for: books about the Algerian War. Eventually, a shopkeeper told him: “books about the Algerian War are in the Revolution section”. Of course, in A…

Le grand saut

It’s Friday night when a goody-two-shoes office worker ends up by mistake in the trash dumped by the people from above. Down below, he meets Robinson, a lonely eccentric. He cannot escape. He cannot go back up and he cannot also perform this big jump int…

La dimension d’après

One day, at the 28th perilous minute of GRANDE-, the unexpected strikes again. Boom. Silence. One minute for a stroke of fate. Now Harrivel needs to repeatedly live this moment all over again, he needs to fall over and over again. He zooms in on this min…

Lions

The Compagnie du Poivre Rose is a Contemporary Circus company based in Belgium. Le Poivre Rose is the project born from the union of 5 artists from Quebec, Belgium and France and brought together by human complicity and common creative objectives. Their …

MONJOUR

Is it the big day? The ‘Magnificent 5’ don’t think so as they watch Francesca Ghermandi’s pop-anime, and the director calls on them. While the director creates the image that they will perform, the clowns, the acrobats and the dancers are faced with thei…

Earths

Louise Vanneste turned to contemporary dance after training in classical dance and developed, with Rising Horses, a choreographic work in connection with artists from disciplines other than dance. Cédric Dambrain for the music, Stéphane Broc for the vide…

Microdanses

The Italian National Foundation for Dance, the Ballet of the National Opera of Greece and Les Halles have "married" 12 choreographers, 12 themes of contemporary visual arts and created 12 micro-dances on a few square meters. Mircodanses is a promenade ex…

Transmission poison

Radio was one of the first means of communication able to combine immediacy and distance; for many, it has been an important companion during these months of isolation. Adeline Rosenstein’s artistic practice stems from long periods of investigation, hour…

Senza Fine

Alors que nous allions entrer en confinement, au moment de se lancer dans ce projet avec Lisi Estaràs, Gaia Saitta écrivait : “Je ne peux plus me lever le matin avec ce poids de fin du monde sur les épaules. Cela ne veut pas dire que je nie la condition …

1001 danses

1001 dances? An emotional saga. A marathon of sensations, styles, and questions. An ode to choreographic and human diversity. A living encyclopaedia where 1001 dances showcase 1001 experiences, from laughter to tears, from humour to sensitivity, from …

Larsen C

Larsen C is a malleable yet structured piece. In it, Christos Papadopoulos disrupt our sense: a simple contextual change is enough to change our perceptions. His rigorous and hypnotic writing questions what the act of watching prevents us from seeing. Be…

Lecture américaine

Haunted by Salinger, Daphne Biiga Nwanak went to New York to find traces of him. Wandering the city, she looked for men and women to tell her their stories, songs, and exiles. She wanted to follow in their footsteps. She put together these stories to cre…

Y aller voir de plus près

Maguy Marin is one of the absolute masters of contemporary dance. She populates her work with people trying to build a community while they are caught in a storm. Lost among abandoned costumes, objects, and streams of images, two men, two women, and a…

Le Jardin

Mary is pregnant and thinks she is the Virgin Mary. Fritz, Antoine, and Nicolas decided not to argue. "After all, if it makes her happy...". Day after day, sitting on a field – or is it an off-season camping site? – the life of the four characters goes o…