Performances
THE BAOBAB WOMAN
The Baobab woman arrives at the end of the world, looks around and tells herself that she's still there, that she's resisted well. Then she realizes that resistance isn't freedom; resistance is force, and the use of force leads to exhaustion and bitterness. And at the end of the world, refugee women...
THE CHOICE OF SOULS (le choix des âmes)
1916, Verdun. Two men, opposites in every way, find themselves sharing a shell crater: Raoul, a vengeful and somewhat simple French soldier, Franz, a German soldier, musician and humanist. With them, a cello.
The two enemies need each other to escape from this dark and sordid universe. The music ...
The Degree Above Zero (Festival d’Avignon 2024)
Being whistled at in the street? A common, everyday occurence.
Having your bottom grabbed on public transport? All too often.
Exhibitionists, groping, harassment, assault... Stories that raise questions about the systemic and cultural nature of the abuse to which women and children are subjec...
RONE: L(OO)PING
L(OO)PING is a singular object film, mixing mime and dance around the music of Rone, accompanied here by the Lyon Symphony Orchestra.
From the recording of the concert at the Lyon auditorium, the film escapes into the impressionistic worlds of four choreographers. An electro-symphonic f...
Albert Einstein, a child apart
Filmed at the Avignon Off Festival
Adapted from the novel by Brigitte Kernel “Le Monde Selon Albert Einstein”
Albert Einstein is not like other children. Mocked by his classmates, he finds refuge in numbers and books. In these moments, his mind roams free. He wants to understand ever...
DELPHINE COUTANT: 2 Solar Systems
Poetess, composer, musician and singer, Delphine Coutant leads us into the world of mythology and ancient tragedies. Like Camille, Claire Diterzi and a few others, Delphine Coutant breaks the rules of French song, taking us on a journey into a mysterious, sophisticated and unclassifiable universe.
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FROM SOUND TO SILENCE
Recorded in front of an audience at the Centre National de Création Musicale Voce Pigna (Corsica)
Jean-Claude Paolini presents us with a new musical concept inspired by movement: with his drums, he creates a surprising dialogue imbued with a variety of rhythmic cultures, thus creating differ...
From trunk to laser sword
This show tells the story of instruments and musicians through the evolution of the production of sound.
Musical instruments were born from gestures performed on differently shaped materials. Starting out as raw, natural objects, which were gradually transformed, instruments developed over the co...
Gilgamesh, Melodies of Memory
Musical show for all ages, from 6+
The Epic of Gilgamesh is often studied in the sixth-grade history curriculum as part of the chapters on Mesopotamia, the pre-Islamic Near East and the birth of writing.
This is a new version, freely inspired by the Epic, with the twofold i...
KAFKA, The Metamorphosis
The incredible misadventure of Gregor Samsa, freely inspired from Franz KAFKA.
Tired of being a perfectly ordinary man, Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find he has turned into a cockroach; but his disappointment is short-lived. Having acknowledged that he will no longer be able to go to work...
