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L’Expérience de l’arbre (The Tree Experience), by Simon Gauchet

Avec le réalisateur de L'Expérience de l'arbre , Simon Gauchet nous offre un corps fantomatique entre deux visions du monde.

Updated on 14/11/2023

Tafé Fanga, le pouvoir du pagne - a project supported by the "Des mots à la scène" scheme

Tafé Fanga, le pouvoir du pagne is a powerful play in which the collective voice of a group of women meticulously dissects the failings of patriarchal society.

Updated on 14/12/2022

Hamza Lenoir, winning author of the "Des mots à la scène" scheme

The young author Hamza Lenoir offers a rereading of the choreographic traditions of Mayotte through his show Le Corps de Jésus. A creation where body and words are intimately linked.

Published on 29/11/2022

Gaëlle Bien-Aimé, winner of the RFI Theatre Prize 2022

The Haitian author and director Gaëlle Bien-Aimé has just been awarded the 2022 RFI Theatre prize, organised in partnership with the Institut français, for a work of powerful lyricism, rooted in the suffocating daily life of Port-au-Prince.

Published on 20/10/2022

#Culturecheznous (Culture at home)

Archaeology, cinema, museums, audiovisual, shows, youth, heritage, dance, archives... Discover the exceptional digital cultural offer offered by the Ministry of Culture and its operators on culturecheznous.gouv.fr.

Updated on 04/05/2022

Hassane Kassi Kouyaté

In January 2019, Hassane Kassi Kouyaté took up the position of director of the French-speaking Culture Festival in Limousin, Limoges. He is currently preparing the programme for the 35th edition of the flagship French-speaking Culture Festival, which will take place from 25 September to 5 October...

Updated on 04/05/2022

N’Goné Fall

N'Goné Fall, the General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season, wished to place this ambitious project under the banner of pan-Africanism and collective intelligence.

Updated on 04/05/2022

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba breathe new life into the world of contemporary art: based in Berlin, they design exhibitions and founded the magazine Contemporary And, a demanding print and digital publication whose aim is to “connect cultures”.

Updated on 04/05/2022

Séverine Chavrier

Both a musician and a stage director, Séverine Chavrier places mixing the arts to explore human relations at the heart of her work.

Updated on 27/04/2022

Mutmassungen (Conjectures), by Camille Dagen

Adapting Uwe Johnson’s novel Speculations over Jakob (the Border) in 2020, Camille Dagen continues the on-stage experiments initiated with her colleague Emma Depoid and the company Animal Architecte.

Updated on 23/02/2022

Patricia Kapusta et Gilles Defacque

Gilles Defacque and Patricia Kapusta have been partners for twenty-five years and have just handed over management of Prato, the Théâtre International de Quartier de Lille, having instilled their love of the performing arts there. They helped to develop this venue over many years, and it has become...

Updated on 16/11/2021

#COLONIE.S, an immersive show created by Frédéric Deslias and Norbert Merjagnan

A bewildering and immersive theatre experience, #COLONIE.S is a science-fiction tale that beckons us to wander through buildings transformed by augmented reality techniques.

Updated on 13/09/2021

Terre Ceinte, by Aristide Tarnagda

In Terre Ceinte, director Aristide Tarnagda adapts the novel by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr for the stage. With passionate dedication, he explores terrorist violence and its consequences for a town that dares to resist.

Updated on 10/09/2021

David Geselson

David Geselson is an actor, playwright and director. With the conviction that theatre can combat darkness, he creates humanist theatre that is in tune with the political and poetic issues of his time.

Published on 20/07/2021

Jean d'Amérique

A standard-bearer of the new literary generation in Haiti, Jean d'Amérique has from the outset commanded an intense style to speak about his country and our world. He sensitively delivers furious poems and texts using a range of media, from the written word to the stage.

Published on 13/07/2021