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GYMNASTICS is a new form of timeless cultural programme. Each episode arouses our curiosity, directs our gaze towards extraordinary characters, and creates links between topics that, at first glance, have little in common. GYMNASTIQUE catches the spirit of the time, identifies emerging trends and tells singular, surprising and unexpected stories.
A wide range of topics that combine journalistic rigour, exacting narrative and humour! Previously unheard or little-known stories, (falsely) naive questions that we have all asked ourselves without ever actually asking out loud!

SEASON 1:

• The chart that split humanity in two
• The writer who could neither read nor write
• All of Le Corbusier in a cabin
• The day we danced barefoot at the opera / Carolyn Carlson
• A good meme never dies
• Letraset, the punk font
• The accordionist from Red Dead Redemption 2 / Mario Batkovic
• Pixel is not dead
• Repairing cities with Lego
• The just man from Gomorrah
• Viollet-Le-Duc, the man who wanted to renovate Mont Blanc
• Statues weren’t white
• The GDR’s Spotify
• Hollywood: the art of erasure
• The nightmare factory
• Who killed the French superheroes?

• Photography without a camera
• The agitator who inspired Fight Club / John Law
• Blood on stage
• Why do conductors have a baton?
• Where are the Renaissance women painters?
• White Zones, exploring empty spaces
• Art with your head in the clouds
• Why do we clap at shows?
• 90°: a dizzying art
• Anthropocene: artists of the living world
• Holmes, the father of the house of horrors
• Vava Dudu, fashion’s best-kept secret
• Once upon a time, Keith Haring in a toilet
• Brecht Evens, comics without panels or bubbles
• But who is Mac Guffin?
• How did a saint become a gay icon?
• Is yellow the new red?
• The woman who shaped punk’s image
• The nipple that created YouTube
• Why do you sing out of tune?
• The Bauhaus spirit in one photo
• The art of turning crap into gold
• You on canvas — where’s your body hair?
• The material that’s a hit
• Are cemeteries museums like any other?
• Witches are back — beware!
• The cheeky woman of the Victorian era / Beatrix Potter
• The concert that will last 639 years
• The Mona Lisa doesn’t follow you with her eyes
• The artisan publisher
• Pornographism: when letters drop the O
• Why do metalheads have long hair?
• Saype, the field graffiti artist
• The dress that makes Goethe turn in his grave
• The liberated spirit of Gnaoua music
• Belfast, the art of wall-making
• What is Gotham really a name for?
• Hard rock was born on French TV
• Dungeons & Dragons: the red box that changed everything
• Don’t throw away your slides — they’ll end up in a show
• All of New York in one mile
• Proust’s madeleine could’ve been a rusk
• Calder also painted a "mobile" car
• The man who inspired Star Wars, Michael Jackson, and Lost

SEASON 2:

• A trip without acid with the Dreamachine
• Why were old portraits always frowning?
• Who made Hitler?
• What is the Thinker thinking about?
• Shaved heads, powerful women
• Why do we see faces everywhere?
• Yes, football is art
• The original soundtrack of your nightmares
• Blob: sci-fi is taking over
• The Silicon Valley Bible
• Why are left-handed people geniuses?
• Why do we get stage fright?
• It’s 100 seconds to apocalypse
• The card game that saved David Bowie
• Why didn’t the Church like Molière?
• The whole New Wave in one tracking shot
• Why do sad songs make us happy?

• Why are clowns scary?
• The choreographer decolonizing dance
• Art conquering space
• Why do artists worship their cats?
• Hell exists — it’s the ancestor of porn
• Why are rappers obsessed with Egypt?
• Cabin Fever
• When feminists take the spotlight
• Lean: rap’s version of absinthe
• The Stradivarius of oriental lutes
• Art through the window
• Franz Liszt, the first rock star
• Necronomicon, the cult of the occult
• When Monopoly was anti-capitalist
• My period, a true work of art
• The hidden side of the canvas
• Abraham Poincheval, the inner explorer
• The huge instrument that made little noise
• Cold Case: missing instruments
• The instrument that drives musicians mad
• No one's in tune
• What’s up with the trumpet-violin?
• The secret language of British gays
• Keanu Reeves, the Keanaissance
• The mask of revolt

SEASON 3:

• Degas and the secrets of the Opera
• Muhammad Ali, the battle of the image
• How good was Bruce Lee in a fight?
• Olia Lialina, the artist who might save the internet
• The not-so-dead Poets Society
• Why are we still looking for the Yeti?
• Corita Kent: the pop nun
• Should French be gendered?
• The first meme: 50 years before the web
• Queenie, the Queen of Harlem
• In search of lost letters
• Relax… listen to some noise
• Are birds musicians?
• The graphic novel began without words
• What to do with controversial statues?

• Why was Bambi burned?
• Is audio the future of porn?
• Why does sci-fi love lasers?
• Can video games save the world?
• Why don’t we live in bubble houses?
• Home space home
• Do self-driving cars have morals?
• The man who wanted to become Dracula
• Are plants music lovers?
• What if esports started in 1972?
• Where did Van Gogh’s colors go?
• Why are vulvas scary?
• Does the voice have a gender?
• Clothes don’t make the nun
• Libertalia, a pirate utopia?
• Can art self-destruct?
• Ayn Rand, the guru of capitalism
• Caravaggio, genius painter and murderer
• Why are we fascinated by octopuses?
• Art in the service of your behind
• Why are medieval lions so weird?
• The city according to Walt Disney
• How to make a true fake
• The music you don’t listen to
• Pedal-powered car, Simone!
• How did Elizabeth Siddal become immortal?
• Manifesto for a world without men

SEASON 4:

• The art of taming fire
• The world’s most mysterious book
• Do you have to be sad to be funny?
• The return of X-rated music
• Kites: when art hangs by a thread
• Jeanne Vicerial, the spider-artist
• The (almost) full truth about dinosaurs
• What does a Mondrian smell like?
• Lilith, more than Adam’s ex
• What’s the point of fake laughter on TV?
• The cross-dressing deserter of WWI
• The most disturbing man in the world
• Death in song — why does it feel so good?
• The biggest Cubist work was a boat
• Postcard: the art of cliché?
• What if blur helped us see better?

• Why scare children?
• Better two voices than one!
• What if reggae was actually Japanese?
• Should we eat paintings?
• In the workshop of the synth magician
• Holograms: back to the future!
• Bondage: do we need to be tied to be free?
• (Not) just an illusion
• How do you dance a glitch?
• Dancing death with Valeska Gert
• SOS! Science sees ghosts
• Why is taxidermy so alive?
• What happens to the ruins of the metaverse?
• Does the perfect lookalike really exist?
• The artist who made computers speak
• Can you bend a spoon with your mind?
• Cocottes: the first influencers
• Uncanny Valley: when too much resemblance creeps us out
• Camp: the good taste of bad taste?
• What if Notre-Dame never stopped ringing?
• Bone Music, music under your skin
• Ad Libs, the flavor of rap
• How to map your imagination?
• Are we living in the world of Avatar?

SEASON 5:

• No, Inuits don’t have 50 words for “snow”
• Why are we always looking for art prodigies?
• What’s with this (orchi)delirium?
• Why did we stop slow dancing?
• When rap hijacks the dancefloor
• Cardistry: the flipside of the deck
• Tesla: against the current
• Is sobriety the new punk?
• Are AIs philosophical zombies?
• How to take photos with mud
• Art at the price of a sandwich
• Bootlegs just keep spinning
• What happened to the rainbow flag?
• Booktok: the revenge of the salonnières
• Aerotrain: back to the future
• Liminal Spaces: creepy places that haunt the web
• Can you squat someone else’s artwork?

• Can art reconcile us with old age?
• Does inner beauty really exist?
• Divas: divinely temperamental?
• World Game: a game for world peace
• Souvenir-objects of bad memories
• The feast of the future
• The Earth is flat — just trust us
• The glassblower who shapes the art world
• What if we painted with a mummy?
• Brits, naked… and happy
• Michèle Lamy: a fashion uppercut
• Feminist defense: there will be blood
• Summer Body, the scam of the century
• The Soviet bloc’s Erasmus
• Kim Lee, Warsaw’s drag icon
• Aneta Grzeszykowska: feminism masked
• Stanisław Lem, the sci-fi prophet of today
• The secret life of Kraków’s cellars
• Dora Maar, reporting in!
• When billboards awaken History
• Antifémina but feminist
• Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, porn pioneer?
• The Spanish fantasy master who inspired Hollywood

SEASON 6:

• When manga turned to the dark side
• Dots — that’s it!
• Yes to the Olympics… but for art!
• New censorship, new resistance!
• Is feminism science fiction?
• When tall girls don’t fit the frame
• How eco-monsters took over Italy
• Femminielli: trans identity as tradition
• When art goes underground
• Communist Poland and the neon demon
• Kitsch… elevated to art!
• Heroic fantasy is fantastic
• We should all dress like Gypsies
• Rebel recipes for urban architecture
• The Galician poet who invented Spanish foosball!
• When special effects became an art