Tag: Avignon
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…
In Avignon, the theater beyond the clichés
Diversity is one of the key words of the Festival d’Avignon. Today in VMDN, an exhibition and a show are in the spotlight. Through the richness of his photographic work,…
Avignon Festival: “Via Injabulo”, the Pantsula dance as a hymn to life
The South African company Via Kathlehong, named after the eponymous township located southeast of Johannesburg, has two choreographers, a Portuguese and a Franco-Senegalese, to carry the Pantsula culture from the…
In Avignon, the “off” festival opens beyond the sphere of theater
At the Avignon festival, if the “in”, official festival, offers a handpicked program and supports its forty shows, the “off” is the big machine of the festival which this year…
“Le Nid de Cendres” at the Avignon Festival: “We are almost carried away as in a dream”
At the Festival d’Avignon, the marathon plays are a ritual. This time, it is Simon Falguières, young author and director, who rubs shoulders with this form with The Nest of…
Off from Avignon: “Crossing in clear water in a swimming pool painted black” at the Théâtre du Train Bleu
The 76th edition of the Theater Festival has just started. The “In” with more than 40 shows and the big “Off” machine that fills the city every summer in the…
Theater / Avignon: Lamine Diagne for his creation “The silent book”
It all started with this book… the book of all everyone’s secrets. In the silent book, the author, director and storyteller Lamine DiagneI tells the family stories of the father,…
Avignon: Attali’s fresco pulling Macron’s strings “is absolutely anti-Semitic”
The huge fresco sparked a lively controversy. Appeared a fortnight ago on the side of a water management building at the entrance to Avignon (Vaucluse), it represents the writer and…