Performing Arts
PICKY BANSHEES ( concert Ilyade)
Nostalgic but never melancholy, The Picky Banshees’ warm ballads sweep unfettered through time and space in the pure spirit of American folk. Perfect harmonies, rocky voices, guitars, harmonicas... simple music, as effective as it is exotic!
Playing live as a trio, quartet or quintet since 2017, ...
Quatuor VAN KUIJK
Formed in 2012 in Paris, the Van Kuijk Quartet has won numerous awards and is very present on major international stages such as the Wigmore Hall, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Auditorium du Louvre, the Musikverein de Vienne, Radio Bavaroise in Munich, the Berlin, Luxembourg, Cologne, Hamburg ...
RAY LEMA: You come in KO’d and Leave OK
Ray Lema, pianist, composer, one of the fathers of post-modern Central African music and a pillar of world music, pays tribute to Franco Luambo, Congolese rumba icon and founder of the group Tout Puissant OK JAZZ.
With his glorious arrangements, Ray Lema manages to retain the soul and energy of t...
ROOM WITH A VIEW – Rone & La Horde
A post-apocalyptic vision rises from the boards of the Théâtre du Châtelet. The chaos and collapse are palpable. Within this devastated setting, 20 dancers protest and rebel, swept along by the music performed live by Rone on his machines.
Given free rein to devise a show by the Théâtre...
SAMARABALOUF
Created in 2000, Samarabalouf is an acoustic swing and gypsy jazz group from northern France.
The string trio works its wonders in the difficult genre of swing thanks to François PETIT, the composer and guiding light of this surprising group...
French world music - Tendance Manouche: the expre...
THE DAY DREAMS (Cie Jean-Claude Gallotta )
With this show, Jean-Claude Gallotta returns to Bethune Street in Manhattan, where, in the early 1980s, his dreams as an apprentice choreographer were reflected in the picture windows of Merce Cunningham's studio.
Composed of three twenty-minute "events" interspersed with two solos by t...
THE FRENCH BASTARDS
Following in the modern tradition of jazz mixed with contemporary music (Neil Cowley, GoGo Penguins…), THE FRENCH BASTARDS play percussive and intriguing fusion, bubbling with cinematographic references.
This group dons the formal mantle of jazz the better to burst its seams! It sometimes sounds ...
To be returned to Mr. Morgenstern upon demand
"Lyon. January 2018. I open a black hard-cardboard box that belonged to my
grandfather, who was a printer in Lyon during the last war. In amongst a mass of documents, I find a perfectly preserved grey file, with this note written in pencil:
“Documents belonging to Mr. Morgenstern, deposited in...
Tribute concert to MANITAS DE PLATA
A unique concert, recorded at the Théâtre de la Mer in Sète on August 7, 2021.
Ricardo Baliardo, known as "Manitas de Plata" (literally "little hands of silver") was one of the most prolific French musicians of the last century. He is the flamenco artist who has sold the most albums in ...
