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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 R-A-…
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. Equivoc…
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 compellin…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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 subt…
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…
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. A…
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 …