International Festival
28.08.2021
Passo
Ambra Senatore/CCN de Nantes
Sur une scène où s'effacent les frontières entre réalité et fiction, des danseuses explorent avec une finesse cocasse un…
International Festival
26+27.08.2021
Beast without Beauty
Carlo Massari/C&C Company
Two individuals gravitate towards each other and clash in duels where their superficial harmony reveals conventional…
International Festival
26—28.08.2021
Singeries
Priscilla Guy & Catherine Lavoie-Marcus
Positioned at the centre of a video fresco where their image multiplies and shatters, two women immerse themselves in a…
International Festival
25.08.2021
R-A-U-X-A
Aina Alegre
A recurring gesture permeates the performances of the Catalan choreographer: the act of striking, of hammering. In…
International Festival
24—27.08.2021
Books on the Move
Nomadic and international, the bookstore Books on the Move builds bridges between artists, educators, researchers, the…
International Festival
23+24.08.2021
Elvedon
Christos Papadopoulos
Deep inside Elvedon, a flow beats endlessly, using the resources of repetition, bounce and progressive evolution of the…
International Festival
23—24.08.2021
Manual Focus
Mette Ingvartsen
Old men in reverse are trying to recapture their youth by replacing their legs and recomposing their anatomies.…
International Festival
20+21.08.2021
CHRO NO LO GI CAL
Yasmine Hugonnet/Arts Mouvementés
Chro no lo gi cal is intended as a concert, as a score where voices and bodies interact in a sensible dialogue within a…
International Festival
20+21.08.2021
Pode Ser
Leïla Ka
In the beginning, there is the urge against what we were, the roles we played, but also against everything that made us…
International Festival
20+21.08.2021
rain
Meytal Blanaru
With rain, Meytal Blanaru reawakens a childhood trauma of sexual abuse that she transmutes on stage through a compelling…
International Festival
20+21.08.2021
Goofy
Roni Chadash
Roni Chadash conceived Goofy “as an attempt to understand the way a body can lose its innocence and how something so…
International Festival
16+17.08.2021
Morning Sun
Cie Sam-Hester/Perrine Valli
The inspiration for Morning Sun is a painting by Edward Hopper showing a naked woman who stands in a room lit by the…
International Festival
16—18.08.2021
Muyte Maker
Flora Détraz/PLI
Singing profusely, laughing polyphonically, dancing blindly, chattering away: the four women figures in Muyte Maker seem…
International Festival
16+17.08.2021
Mille
Harris Gkekas
Incandescent and sharp, Harris Gkekas’ figure traces a path in which the surges and snags trace multiple mutations where…
International Festival
12—14.08.2021
Les Arrière-Mondes
Cie Mossoux-Bonté
From the mists of time, dishevelled creatures plunge into our eyes as if into a bottomless mirror.
These are the…
31.08.2019
Festival Closure Party
Les Juliens I Blondy Brownie
22:30Les JuliensConcert
Somewhere between the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Emilie Jolie, Les Juliens - a temporary…
Show
30+31.08.2019
L'affadissement du merveilleux
Catherine Gaudet
An ice flow and, side by side, five dancers with an intense and magnetic presence.
Are they the subject of a study, a…
Show
30+31.08.2019
Transfiguration
Olivier de Sagazan
Painter, sculptor, and performer, Olivier de Sagazan is the author of a multi-faceted work, haunted by metamorphosis,…
29+31.08.2019
Books on the move
Lively Reading Workshops
Books on the Move will also offer Lively Reading Workshops. Led by journalist Stéphanie Pichon and dancer Agnès Benoit,…
Show
28.08.2019
Grasped by Intuition
Tânia Carvalho
As humble priestess of the invisible, Tania Carvalho delves into the gaps in the air, into the crevices of reality. She…
Show
28+29.08.2019
Harleking
Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi
How to hijack the character of Harlequin from the Commedia dell'Arte? Or rather, how to use his buffoonery and…
Show
28.08.2019
Shadowpieces I - mélancolie de l'espace
Cie Greffe / Cindy Van Acker
A supported, fluid, calm, and yet charged movement. It is charged with substance, but detached, as if already far away.…
Show
28+29.08.2019
Troubles du rythme
Tomeo Vergés / Man Drake
A man and woman obsessively replay a household scene to stand up for their truth or their preferred interpretation of…
Librairie
27—30.08.2019
Books on the move
Librairie nomade
The travelling, international bookstore Books on the Move is this year's guest at the Festival. On the evenings of 27 to…
Show
26+27.08.2019
MASS
Pierre Pontvianne / Compagnie Parc
Can movement and words coexist in an exclusive relationship and potentiate their resources and differences in nature and…
Show
23+24.08.2019
It's now. It's never.
Dafi Altabeb & Nini Moshe
Full of memories, eight dancers meet up to make them into a single story, a polyphonic choreography that plays on group…
Show
23+24.08.2019
Habiter
Katia-Marie Germain
A table, some fruit, a plant, a tea pot, and a woman sitting still. The shot goes dark, comes back on, and goes dark.…
Show
21+22.08.2019
Horion
Malika Djardi
"Horion" generally means a violent blow. Here, it means blows in their most literal (kicks, head butts, punches,…
Show
19+20.08.2019
Set of Sets
GN I MC Guy Nader I Maria Campos
In Time Takes the Time Time Takes, presented at the Festival in 2016, Guy Nader and Maria Campos elegantly outlined the…
Show
16+17.08.2019
Pièces
Ambra Senatore
Friends meet in a large flat with rooms that interconnect without walls. They move from one to another initiating…
Show
31.08+01.09.2018
A Taste of Poison
Cie Mossoux-Bonté
With hygienic buns and clinically shaven skulls, five experts subject themselves, seriously and without laughter, to a…
Show
30.08+01.09.2018
Multiverse
Louis Vanhaverbeke/CAMPO
Like a satellite around an imaginary planet, Louis Vanhaverbeke puts himself in orbit, capturing various objects, the…
Show
28+29.08.2018
Radical Light
Salva Sanchis
Between the manner and style of contemporary dance where movements are shaped and dances one creates spontaneously alone…
Show
27—29.08.2018
Scarabeo, Angles and The Void
Andrea Costanzo Martini
"Scarabeo" is the Italian word for scarab, used as a symbol by the ancient Egyptians for the celestial cycle of rebirth.…
Show
27.08.2018
Sons of Sissy
Simon Mayer/ Kopf Hoch
To make a mockery of the mould of conventional masculinity, there is nothing like forming a quartet of musicians from…
Show
24+25.08.2018
Que du bonheur (?)
Man Drake/Tomeo Vergés
What does it mean to be a woman? To what codes, to what social pressure must women submit?
Tomeo Vergés has found a…
Show
24+25.08.2018
Cantico dei Cantici
Compagnia Virgilio Sieni
Coming out of an endless night and returning ceaselessly to it as in the backwash of love, six dancers appear at the…
Show
24+25.08.2018
VON solo
Compagnia Stalker/Daniele Albanese
A being crosses the night like a shining meteor: a celestial image to situate this moment of refined dance, whose…
Show
22—25.08.2018
bang bang
Cie Manuel Roque
Dancing until losing or discovering the self. Reaching the point where endurance allows a different being to show. Is…
Show
20+21.08.2018
Oskara
Kukai Dantza & Marcos Morau/La Veronal
Everything is disconcerting in this show in which a man experiences his death and penetrates into the mystery of…
Show
18+20.08.2018
Là, se délasse Lilith... Manifestation d'un corps libertaire
Cie Marinette Dozeville
A character from the Hebrew tradition but who is no longer a part of the biblical texts, Lilith was the first woman, a…
Show
17+18.08.2018
Titans
Euripides Laskaridis & OSMOSIS
The reference to the Titans, the ancestors of the gods of Olympus plunged in an instant into oblivion, sets the tone for…
International Festival
01+02.09.2017
The Dry Piece | XL Edition
Keren Levi
Behind a projection screen showing them filmed from above, eight dancers compose fascinating figures evoking sixties…
International Festival
01+02.09.2017
Almost Alive (excerpt)
Sandman/Sabine Molenaar
Revealing the interior labyrinth through the contortion of the body, using the disarticulation of limbs to approach…
International Festival
30+31.08.2017
une mystérieuse Chose, a dit e.e.cummings*
Vera Mantero
In this short play marked by the stamp of originality and humour, the metamorphosed dancer in constant unbalance changes…
International Festival
30+31.08.2017
Peut-être elle pourrait danser d’abord et penser ensuite
Vera Mantero
With Perhaps..., Vera Mantero gives free rein to her impulsiveness and the play becomes a moving lexicon of her grammar…
International Festival
30+31.08.2017
Ouvrir le temps (the perception of)
Eva Klimackova & Laurent Goldring
Between Eva Klimackova’s dance, the eyes of plastic artist Laurent Goldring and the voice of poet Gherasim Luca, a…
International Festival
29+30.08.2017
Two Playful Pink
Yasmeen Godder
On the mode of a light frenzy that cannot be constrained, two women respond to the normative and social glance that…
International Festival
25+26.08.2017
Pulse Constellations
Gabriel Schenker
The play draws its origins in a 1978 electronic composition by John McGuire, Pulse Music III. This work combines a wide…
International Festival
25+26.08.2017
Lang
Kat Válastur
Following the principle of the Möbius strip or ADN helix, two twin dancers slide and twist in an infinite standstill.…
International Festival
25+26.08.2017
Janet on the roof
Compagnie Parc/Pierre Pontvianne
Pulled out of the cotton wool of night, a figure emerges, convulsing and coiling onto itself whilst continuously pacing…
International Festival
23.08.2017
And it burns, burns, burns. Final portrait of Prometheus
Compagnia Simona Bertozzi/Nexus
Drawing inspiration from mythology, Simona Bertozzi imagines a dark and mysterious reverie on the issue of transmission…
International Festival
21+22.08.2017
The Black Piece
Ann Van den Broek /WArd/waRD
A second-degree suspense story leaves false
trails and real trouble for a vibrant show toppling all landmarks.
International Festival
18+19.08.2017
7 Pleasures
Mette Ingvartsen
Exploring desire and its representation in a world where omnipresent sexuality infiltrates all social relationships, 7…