Tag: Avignon
Avignon Festival: “The Garden of Delights” by Philippe Quesne, magician poet
The Boulbon quarry, mythical place of the Festival d’Avignon, reopens after 8 years of closure to the delight of festival-goers. It is in this stone crater surrounded by pines and…
“The exhausted against the tired”: at the Avignon Festival, Julie Deliquet adapts “Welfare”
The 77th Festival d’Avignon invites the poorest to the stage of the Palais des Papes. Julie Deliquet opens the Festival with an adaptation of Frederick Wiseman’s film Welfare, in which…
Avignon Festival: Julie Deliquet stages “Welfare” and “a minute of silence for Nahel”
The audience’s applause sounded rather reserved, even reluctant, after this highly anticipated world premiere. For the inauguration, Wednesday evening July 5, Julie Deliquet did what she had announced. The second…
Avignon Festival: GROOVE with Bintou Dembélé
Opening today of the 77th Festival d’Avignon with new director Tiago Rodrigues. And for the first time, the official program of the festival opens in the street which is normally…
investigation opened after the placarding of posters grimacing Macron as Hitler in Avignon
During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, dozens of billboards in the city of Avignon, in the south of France, were covered by posters showing President Emmanuel Macron as Adolf…
Tiago Rodrigues entrusts the opening of the Avignon Festival to Julie Deliquet and Bintou Dembélé
The new director of the Festival d’Avignon, the Portuguese Tiago Rodrigues, unveiled this Wednesday April 5 the 2023 edition which will take place from July 5 to 25. The program…
Avignon Festival: “The chewing of the dead”, the floor is for the deceased
It is in this mythical place that is La Chartreuse, that you can see the show “The mastication of the dead” by Patrick Kermann, author who killed himself in this…
Avignon Festival: Ali Chahrour pays tribute to the women and mothers of Lebanon
The 76th edition of the Avignon Festival is almost over. Among the latest pieces presented, there is a strong Lebanese presence, such as the choreographer Ali Chahrour. He presents his…
Avignon Festival: “Le Sacrifice”, by Dada Masilo, at the heart of the “Rite of Spring”
After revisiting Swan Lake and Giseletwo classical ballets, Dada Masilo takes on Stravinsky’s masterpiece: The Rite of Spring. The South African choreographer was finally able to present her piece The…
Jean D’Amérique’s long-awaited “Opera dust” at the Avignon Festival
For the young Haitian poet Jean D’Amérique, the Festival d’Avignon is ” a utopia under the open sky “. And this Friday, July 15 at 11 a.m., the vocalization of…