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Brigittines

Playhouse
for Movement

Inter­na­tion­al Festival

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International Festival

31.08.2024

Fes­ti­val Clo­sure Party !

With Trop­i­cal Djipsies

Join us as we celebrate the end of the International Festival with Tropical Djipsies! Dive into the world of Global Bas…
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International Festival

30+31.08.2024

Txala­parta

Kukai Dantza & Jesús Rubio Gamo

Not unlike the xylophone, a txalaparta is a Basque musi- cal instrument that resonates when struck, but over which no-o…
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International Festival

29.08.2024

Toi, moi, Tituba…

Dorothée Mun­yaneza / Cie Kadidi

In Maryse Condé’s novel, Tituba is a black woman accused of witchcraft who becomes the mouthpiece for those silenced by…
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International Festival

28.08.2024

Dan­za Ricer­ca­ta / Dan­za Variada

Tânia Car­val­ho & Joana Gama

This is a concert. The concert of a pianist who tackles great composers: Beethoven and Ligeti. The execution is flawles…
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International Festival

26+27.08.2024

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Pierre Pont­vianne / Com­pag­nie Parc

Seven people meet, crossing each other without words, whilst simultaneously appearing to say everything to each other, …
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International Festival

26+27.08.2024

REv­o­lu­tions 2349

Arco Renz & Danielle Allouma

Referring to the frequency 2349.32 Hz – associated with the note D, Ré in French – and the root of the word ‘revolutio…
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International Festival

23+24.08.2024

Sujets

Cie Syl­vain Huc

Confronted with the rawness of their nature and the uncertainty of their condition, human specimens explore the space t…
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International Festival

23+24.08.2024

Le quatrième pas se fait dans la nuit

Com­pag­nie Euphor­bia / Anne-Sophie Lancelin

The sun completes its journey in the night, its ‘fourth step’. This is the step accomplished by three women who enter t…
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International Festival

19—21.08.2024

Noli me tangere

Com­pag­nie Mossoux-Bonté

In a remote corner of the world, men and women wrench themselves out of the shadows and the stone in which they were im…
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International Festival

19—21.08.2024

Vice Ver­sa

Com­pag­nie Mossoux-Bonté

Two women sway, entangled in a tight-knit intimacy, recounting the world’s violence and how they are trying to protect …
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International Festival

19—21.08.2024

Trans­fig­u­ra­tion

Olivi­er de Sagazan

Olivier de Sagazan is a painter, sculptor, and performer whose multifaceted œuvre reflects an obsession with metamorpho…
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International Festival

16.08.2024

Open­ing Night Concert

Bérenger 2000

Come and celebrate the start of the Brigittines International Festival with Bérenger 2000!(electro-punk, synth-pop)☆…
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International Festival

16+17.08.2024

Kar­rasekare

Igor x Moreno

Eight years after presenting their first duet, Idiot Syncrasy, the Festival will once again feature Igor Urzelai Hernan…
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International Festival

01+02.09.2023

Hasard

Pierre Rigal

The word “hasard” (random) comes from the Arabic word az-zahr, which refers to the game of dice. Here, six protagonist…
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International Festival

30.08—01.09.2023

Les jolies choses

Cather­ine Gaudet

A clear dramaturgical intention: a 55-minute study in uninterrupted crescendo. A choreographic arrangement with perfect…
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International Festival

28—30.08.2023

Vol

ALDES / Rober­to Castello

“Entire artistic movements have adopted African forms and aesthetics, refining them and then reproposing them, very oft…
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International Festival

28—30.08.2023

Bouf­fées

Leïla Ka

Five women standing in a single row wipe their tear-drenched cheeks. Are they grieving or stunned by an incurable langu…
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International Festival

28—30.08.2023

Ker­nel

Pierre Pontvianne/​Compagnie Parc

A trio of dancers perform a series of coincidences, reverberations and rebounds on a strip of white carpet that serves …
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International Festival

25+26.08.2023

Sons of Sissy

Simon Mayer/​Art in Motion

Nothing makes a mockery of the mould of conventional masculinity better than a quartet of folk-dancing musicians from t…
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International Festival

25+26.08.2023

W̶E̶L̶COME

Joachim Maudet — Com­pag­nie Les Vagues

Three motionless, impassive figures observe us, commenting on the things they are supposed to see. Yet their lips don’t…
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International Festival

25+26.08.2023

Books on the move

Nomadic and international, the bookstore Books on the Move builds bridges between artists, educators, researchers, the …
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International Festival

22+23.08.2023

ARA! ARA!

Ginevra Panzetti⎮Enrico Ticconi

Coats of arms and standards have been used for centuries to distinguish opposing sides in battle, or to indicate belong…
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International Festival

21+22.08.2023

Il nous est arrivé quelque chose

Olivi­er de Sagazan

Trapped in a huge test tube, a man engages in an experiment where he seems to be both the subject and the tester. He ut…
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International Festival

18.08—02.09.2023

Brigit­tines Inter­na­tion­al Festival

Flights and Vertigo

Sometimes, there is something deep inside of us that simply refuses to sit silent or immobile, or will not bear the wei…
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International Festival

18+19.08.2023

Made of Space

GN⎮MC Guy Nader⎮Maria Campos

In a vertiginous flow of variations and repetitions of trajectories, Made of Space is a composition of resonances and s…
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International Festival

02+03.09.2022

Infer­no

ALDES/ Rober­to Castello

As a place of atonement, subversion and chaos, hell is an imaginary place that, more than any other, has inspired preac…
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International Festival

01+02.09.2022

Quel che resta

Simona Bertozzi/​Nexus

In this wild and elegant duo, Simona Bertozzi and Marta Ciappina explore unusual ways of interacting and connecting. Th…
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International Festival

29+30.08.2022

Les buveuses de café

Com­pag­nie Mossoux-Bonté

Two elegant ladies, afflicted by a furious obsession with symmetry, drink coffee in a cosy drawing room where they whis…
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International Festival

29+30.08.2022

No Half Measures

Taiat Dansa

Where does the identity of a dancer emerge from within a quartet of identical figures? Through which micro-shifts or se…
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International Festival

26+27.08.2022

Very Tiny Lit­tle Drop of Wax

Mei Chen & Yan­nis Brissot

Loosely inspired by the life of Edith Piaf and her journey as a street artist brutally thrown into the spotlight, the p…
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International Festival

26+27.08.2022

Books on the move

Nomadic and international, the bookstore Books on the Move builds bridges between artists, educators, researchers, the …
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International Festival

26+27.08.2022

Believe

Struc­ture-Cou­ple

Purcell’s mythical Cold Song from King Arthur, where the spirit of the cold reluctantly lets himself be warmed by the g…
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International Festival

25—27.08.2022

Bygones

Out Inner­space

The Bygones are beings that once inhabited the land in the distant past, like dwellers in limbo. These supernatural cre…
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International Festival

23+24.08.2022

Motifs

Pierre Pontvianne/​Com­pag­nie Parc

Marthe Krumenacher and Paul Girard cross the entire play tied together by an obsessional interplay of knots, fluidity a…
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International Festival

22+23.08.2022

Sev­en Winters

Yas­mine Hugonnet/​Arts Mouvementés

(Site specific adaptation of the play for the Chapel and the Brigittines International Festival) Seven for seven bodies…
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International Festival

18—20.08.2022

Le cri des méduses

Alan Lake Factori(e)

Inspired by Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, the performance immerses us in a complex “tableau vivant” in a post-apocaly…
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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 u…
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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 ri…
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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…
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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 R-A-…
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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 …
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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…
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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. Equivoc…
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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…
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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…
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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 compellin…
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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 am…
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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 su…
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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 see…
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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 wher…
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International Festival

12—28.08.2021

Brigit­tines Inter­na­tion­al Festival

Our heart beats elsewhere

Our heart beats elsewhere. In Poddema, in Combray, in the steppes of childhood, on the shore of Farghestan and Orsenna.…
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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 fi…
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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 dis…
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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 change…
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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…
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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 subt…
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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 fal…
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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…
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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. A…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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 …
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Drift­ing zones and whirlwinds

16—31.08.2024

Brigit­tines Inter­na­tion­al 2024

Flights and Vertigo

18.08—02.09.2023

Fes­ti­val Inter­na­tion­al 2023

Spi­ral of Dream

18.08—03.09.2022

Fes­ti­val Inter­na­tion­al 2022

Our heart beats elsewhere

12—28.08.2021

Inter­na­tion­al Fes­ti­val 2021

Libres comme demain nous l’apprendra

16—31.08.2019

Inter­na­tion­al Fes­ti­val 2019

Anti­dotes for a tox­ic era

17.08—01.09.2018

Inter­na­tion­al Fes­ti­val 2018

The Pow­er of the Night

18.08—02.09.2017

Inter­na­tion­al Fes­ti­val 2017

Grace and Disaster

19.08—03.09.2016

Inter­na­tion­al Fes­ti­val 2016

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