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Omar Sosa & Jacques Schwarz-Bart: CrÉole Spirit
Omar Sosa and Jacques Schwarz-Bart have been separately flying the flag of Afro-Caribbean jazz high around the world for the last 10 years.
Today, the pianist Omar Sosa is the undisputed leader of a Cuban jazz inspired by the spiritual traditions of Santeria, the African belief system dating back t...
ONCE UPON A TIME… SOLAR IMPULSE
Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, have set out to achieve something that still seems impossible today: the First Round-The-World Solar Flight, powered only by the sun, with no fuel or polluting emissions.
In line with the Piccard Family tradition of scientific exploration and protection of the...
Orfeo, Monteverdi
L’Orfeo, a musical fable written by Claudio Monteverdi in 1607, often considered the first real opera in history, is a musically intense work with a libretto directly inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The richness of the orchestration, the virtuosity of the choral pages and the precise characterisat...
PARIS GARE DU NORD, the busiest railway station in Europe
The Gare du Nord in Paris is Europe’s leading railway station and the third busiest in the world. It serves 4 European countries, the northern regions of France and the northern suburbs of Paris. Every day, 2,100 trains arrive and depart on its 32 tracks. Covering an area the size of 11 football pit...
Pierre Henry: Continuo or vision of the futur
The acoustic universe of Pierre Henry is in perpetual evolution. He accepted to create an evening which 'makes a temporal link between yesterday, now and tomorrow'.
Linking man and nature, past and present, at 87 years old, the pioneer of electronic music is still writing, surrounded by his many mac...
PLOUP
A series of video shorts written and conceived with speech bubbles, text and ploups.
Ploup is a short comedy series that aims to develop a very simple idea: observing chat
conversations from the point of view of one of two interlocutors.
Each episode, which lasts roughly 4 minutes, presents a...
QUARTZ The roving tale of a sand speck
A sand speck odyssey. Beached on an Atlantic shore, blown by the north wind on the grey and white dunes, reaching the outskirts of a forest, it runs through a multitude of ecosystems. Each of them is a universe filled with species incredibly and often spectacularly adapted to both the absence of wat...
Royal Southern Brotherhood
“Amplified soul for a new generation”... It may sound pretentious, but the Royal Southern Brotherhood lives up to its claim with a tribal beat, a heady groove that hits the mark and a certain laid-back attitude characteristic of the humidity of the American Deep South. A meeting of the swaying rhyth...
Saint Martin, 1700 years of sharing
In the harsh winter of 324, a dazzling cavalry officer from the Roman Imperial Guard stop his horse in front of a nearly naked man, then take from his shoulders his immense white cloak, made from two pieces of fabric, one lined with sheepskin, and separate the two parts with his sword to make the un...
