Performing Arts
THE FAT BASTARDS GANG BAND
Singing in nine languages, the Fat bastards Gang Band mixes, blends and flavours its music with a multitude of spices. A powerful contemporary sound, in which electric and traditional instruments combine to get the audience dancing.
Irreverent, satirical and festive, the Fat Bastard Gan...
THE FREAKY BUDS
The Freaky Buds’ roots are firmly planted in the classics of electric Blues, from R.L. Burnside and Little Walter to Howlin' Wolf and Magic Sam, mixed with more contemporary and resolutely rock influences such as The Black Keys, Royal Blood, The Dead Weathers and even Deap Vally.
The band is unus...
THUNDER RISING & Dean Bowman
Blues tinged with jazz and powerful compositions from Marko Balland's quintet, playing in jam band format. Tasty instrumentals and top level technique, all carried by the magnificent vocals of Dean Bowman, one of the greatest voices in jazz, gospel and soul music.
Concert recorded durin...
TOGETHER WE STAND: ABRAHAM INC Featuring DAVID KRAKAUER, FRED WESLEY & SOCALLED
By bringing together three great masters from different backgrounds, Abraham Inc. creates, in a magical mix of their musical traditions, a new "irresistible" genre.
David Krakauer, internationally acclaimed virtuoso clarinetist and one of klezmer music's greatest innovators, hip-hop renegade geni...
URBAN VOICES – where you come from
The vocal choir XXL Nantes Urban Voices, trained for ten years by its artistic director Karim Ammour, offers here the Maghreb onstage. In July 2022, his final show brought together close to a thousand amateur vocalists around professional musicians, for a bewitching sound and visual journey.
Sinc...
LA COMPAGNIE DES SPECTRES (Zabou Breitman / Lydie Salvaire)
Recorded at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint Martin, Paris
Adapted from the novel by Lidye Salvayre, La compagnie des spectres is the poignant monologue that Louisiane, a young woman in her forties, gives to the bailiff who has come to seize the few pieces of furniture she and her mother o...
LOGIQUIMPERTURBABLEDUFOU (Zabou Breitman)
Recorded at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint Martin, Paris
The action takes place in a psychiatric hospital where everything is order and unreason. The play asks a disturbing question: who are the madmen? The ones who treat or the ones who are treated?
With derision and humour, Zabou Br...
MAGIC MOZART… spectacular concert !
The choreographer Philippe Decouflé brings together singers, clowns, dancers and live video in this "spectacular concert". Insula orchestra and Laurence Equilbey invite the finest opera singers for a magical journey around Mozart's most beautiful arias, in a spirit of lightness, love, humour and vit...
WE ARE THE SAVAGES, Tales from the neighbourhood
Les Sauvages tells the story of a mysterious young woman who moves into a park on the edge of the “neighbourhood”, a place between the city and the forest. The local residents surround the young woman and ask her what she’s doing there. Soon, people from outside the community - the police, town plan...
À LA FOLIE
À la Folie follows in the tradition of "pocket operas". Unclassifiable, the show is at the crossroads of theatre and opera.
A voice is heard. It is that of the singer who sings what cannot be said. Her voice and her body express madness. She is accompanied not by a symphony orchestra bu...