Festival XS
Never has a festival been so outward-looking while making a deep dive into the very building which houses it. Never has a festival approached the world in a (…)
Never has a festival been so outward-looking while making a deep dive into the very building which houses it. Never has a festival approached the world in a (…)
Any encounter represents a risk. Risk of being moved, of colliding, risk of being flushed out. Whether it’s a meeting with another person, another world or (…)
Columbia is a trapeze artist. On tour with the Columbia Circus, she is about to return to the stage. Sitting in the dressing room of the Columbia, we slip i (…)
We don’t want compassion, we want rights. The spectator stretches out on a metal bed and listens to the inconceivable stories of Syrian refugees in Germany. (…)
In 2019, Jean-François Ravagnan traveled through the roads of Iran discovering a country through the lens of his camera – and a collection of poetry by A. L (…)
One evening 11 years ago, I passed a naked woman in the middle of a crowd. What this generated was reflected in an unprecedented collaboration between visua (…)
Carré de Je is a hymn to complicity, to fraternal union. In a simple and raw space, two brothers meet. Cohabiting, they confront each other in a confusing a (…)
In the purest tradition of cabaret acts, the great magician Kosmao advances with his assistant Goupil. The turns follow one another and in a classic comedic (…)
Despite his clumsiness, Philippe is not afraid to say what he thinks. Only as it happens, he’s not sure that he fully understands what he is saying, because (…)
Five beings, confined in their individual realities cross paths, meet or ignore each other. Deformations of gravity appear, materialising in turn the desire (…)
Two a capella voices invite us on a sound journey to the heart of the repertoire of traditional song from the Renaissance to the present day. A immersion in (…)
Triptych for an actor and an actress, Les Yeux noirs plunges into the unfathomable world of domestic violence. We are presented with a reading-spectacle of (…)
A succession of stories as intimate as they are surreal, the Chroniques Martiennes (“Martian Chronicles”) unfold over time like the conquest of a promised l (…)
Desire, violence, sex, hatred and fear, Plastic Heroes recounts war in all its horror, giving life to naïve toys. The innocence of the child playing meets t (…)
Find a place, however fragile it may be. Fight to get there, to hang onto it. Play the rules to maintain yourself even if it means transgressing. They belie (…)
Identity is given to us in spite of ourselves from birth, and then, little by little, we make it our own. So we become "I" to shape our identity, to divert (…)
In this interactive solo show, Briana Ashley Stuart uses the movement and energy of stepping – a traditional African American dance form – to achieve a cult (…)
"When your parents tell you stories, it shapes your world view. How long will it take you, once you’re an adult, to understand this staging ?" Confused b (…)
Three female characters in search of the fine line between man and woman. Combining fiction and reality, circus art, music and documentary, WoManHood aims t (…)
The performance Trajectoires is the meeting of choreographer Julien Carlier with classical guitarist Gaëlle Solal. The two performers explore organic and sp (…)
Martine, farmer for fifty years, has been hard at work without leisure or rest. One day she hears a voice on the radio which rekindles her dreams and her se (…)
A solo show piece by Ariel Doron in which goes another step into minimalism, and creates a fascinating short story using only a shoe box. Funny sensitive an (…)
A car waits, headlights on and loud music. A man – played by dancer and choreographer Oona Doherty – breaks out of this metal shield and takes hold of the o (…)
With Cabaret Mademoiselle, you never know what to expect. Feathers, glitter, genderf*ck and questioning, get ready for a burlesque freak show that mixes gen (…)