Performing Arts
Son Lux at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris
Listening to his intimate records, seeing his slender form hunched over his piano, it’s hard to imagine the insane force of Son Lux concerts. But thanks to a drummer and guitarist of breathtaking precision and presence, we get to experience the full extent of their power.
The 22nd International Circus Festival of Massy
The International Circus Festival of Massy is known to mix traditional and modern acts and attracts artists from all over the world, who perform before an international Jury composed of circus professionals.
Bears, tigers, panthers, leopards, dogs, monkeys, horses, miming clowns, acrobats, dancers, ...
The ABC of Hip-Hop
A dip into the incredible world of Hip-Hop at the Suresnes Cités Danse Festival.
A documentary that takes us behind the scenes of the festival - with a twist: the artists we meet all define their universe by choosing 26 words emblematic of hip-hop, one for each letter of the alphabet.
Compiled wit...
The French National Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi & Fazil Say
Recorded at the Théâtre du Châtelet in paris, october 2014
Creation or performance, Fazil Say masters the art of taking the public’s breath away. His virtuosity allows him to use a stunning spontaneity during his concerts. Concerts he is performing here under the direction of Kristjan Järvi with the...
The Pilgrim Woman, a Florentine celebration opera
Combining different artistic disciplines for the first time, La Pellegrina marks the birth of the opera from the sixteenth century, twenty-eight years before Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Jacopo Peri’s Eurydice.
In the spring of 1589, to welcome Christine of Lorraine, who was coming to join her new husband...
THE WAR OF TROIE WILL NOT TAKE PLACE, by Jean Giraudoux
Paris, prince of Troy, has abducted Helen of Sparta. Most of the Trojans, captivated by her beauty, refuse to return her to the Greeks. Intense negotiations follow—but will the voices of peace prevail?
In this reinterpretation of ancient mythology, Giraudoux also speaks to his own time: in 1935, ...
TRIBUTE TO LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Led by Lillian Boutté and Jerome Etcheberry, SATCHMO GUMBO is an international group bringing together some of the best musicians in traditional jazz.
Lillian Boutté, singer, actress and musical ambassador of New Orleans, delivers a rare energy and emotion in her stage performances.
Well-known in ...
URBAN VOICES: ON THE ROAD TO INDIA
Imagine a choir of nearly a thousand people of different ages, sex and origin.
Imagine a wonderful melting pot, a fabulous cross section of the people of Nantes, coming from every neighbourhood to sing songs from around the world together. Enthusiastic, curious, joyful, motivated, they come together...
VENETIAN SPLENDOURS: André Campra, Antonio Vivaldi
As part of the 32nd Lyon Baroque Music Festival, the Concert spirituel, under the direction of Hervé NIQUET, performs works by André Campra and Antonio Vivaldi.
Hervé Niquet decided to compare Vivaldi’s world famous work with André Campra’s fascinating Mass Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, disti...
A house in Normandy
Nine characters have come for a long weekend in an old house in Normandy. They’re here somewhat reluctantly, but all hope that, together, they can make something out of the place: a holiday home in which to meet up with friends, a fitness centre, a real estate investment ... However, one after the o...
