Cultural Olympiad: projects in your region
As part of the Cultural Olympiad, the Ministry of Culture is driving an ambitious and abundant program in the territories. Regional Directorates of Cultural Affairs (DRAC) in France and Cultural Affairs Directorates (DAC) in Overseas France have been mobilized and cultural events will take place throughout the territory.
The Art of the Collective : with the national stage Points Communs, nine actors have conceived an artistic project around common values that join those of Olympism: the requirement, endurance, tenacity, and the affirmation of the body. The Art of the Collective is based on three main axes: roaming in its urban and rural dimension, the meeting of heritage and creation through the most contemporary artistic expression, and finally address it to youth by imagining proposals that challenge and mobilize young people, whether they come from priority neighborhoods or rural areas of the department.
“We’re not going to walk away” is a parade that brings out the creativity, diversity and solidarity of youth in Seine-Saint-Denis. Made up of artistic projects driven by eight places of creation and diffusion of the performing arts of Seine-Saint-Denis, it will bring together more than 1,200 young people. Imagined in close collaboration with the inhabitants, each segment of the parade will be unique and singular, to make it a festive and unifying artistic event, reflecting the richness of the territory.
Crossing of the tightrope walker Nathan Paulin in Rouen : the performance of the tightrope walker Nathan Paulin at 85 meters high between the Cathedral and the Archives Tower was accompanied by the Orchestra of the Opera of Rouen Normandy.
The Reverse of our decors Le Volcan, the national stage of Le Havre, offers for its 2023-2024 season, a program combining sport and art both in theatres and in sports venues with artists from various backgrounds. Born from the encounter between the juggler Clément Dazin and the author Thomas Scotto, «L'Envers de nos décors» is a creation for young audiences combining circus practice, choreography and writing. For several days, from 2 to 9 December, as part of the Ad Hoc Festival, she will occupy different places - media libraries, gymnasiums, educational rooms, party hall – and will question the passage from childhood to adolescence through movement and speech.
Cycloidal ramp by Raphaël Zarka: the monumental work more than 10 meters wide and 3 meters high can be used by skaters.
Rebounds! Choreographic match Kivuko company and its director, choreographer Christina Towle, bring together professional dancers and a hundred young people aged 12 to 17 around a project combining dance and basketball in the public space. Through this exploration of the ball – playing ball, vector of dance movements and rhythmic percussion - the moving bodies create colorful visual frescoes, graphic and solar, at the edge between dance and sport.
Photo exhibition by Osman Badat : The Reunion celebrates the combat sports and martial arts present at the Olympic Games rooted in local traditions through a photographic exhibition by Osman Badat, which will be deployed on the heritage sites of the department from September 2023. In the fall, a second exhibition, dedicated to athletes of Reunion who have participated in the Games since 1971, will be inaugurated in the historic center of Saint-Denis, at the Jardin de l'Etat. These two initiatives will be part of the major collection of sports archives, led by the Ministry of Culture.
Black sheep : on September 27, 28 and 29, 2023 in Indre, the Equinoxe Scène Nationale de Châteauroux will offer «Mouton noir», a multidisciplinary piece with Paul Molina, a young freestyle soccer artist, in collaboration with the Franco-Colombian circus artist Wilmer Marquez. On the program: ball game, acrobatics and music (freestyle football, which is similar to juggling by its relationship to the body and the apparatus, is also linked to choreographic art).
Barocco is an unprecedented creation by Emmanuel Huet that was born in the Centre region. Mixing baroque music, urban dance and skateboard demonstration, this artistic project features two major companies in the region: the Orchestre Symphonique du Loiret and the Compagnie l'Entité. This initiative was presented in the exceptional setting of the Château de Chambord on the occasion of the European Heritage Days, last September 16.
Write your haka : on June 24 and July 1, the CCN of Rillieux-la-Pape invited audiences of all generations to create a festive haka, to gather and awaken the strengths of each, and create a collective strength multiplied. The project was presented during a time dedicated to the families of rubgy practitioners, and on the occasion of the opening of the Cocotte Festival, dedicated to the inhabitants of Rillieux-la-Pape.
Dance Biennial: On September 10, the biggest choreographic parade in Europe is preparing its 14th edition. It will open the Biennale de la danse by celebrating the encounter and dialogue between art and sport. The body will be at the centre of the proposals of the twelve groups that will propose a varied program: reinterpretation of the haka, diversion of sports, wink to Grenoble 1968, variations around roller-dance, basketball, martial arts and breaking. For the first time, a company, the Collectif ÈS, will propose a prologue to the parade while Rachid Ouramdane will ensure the final place Bellecour by crossing dance, acrobatics and extreme sports. An event that brings together more than 250,000 spectators every two years.
Veloparade : mid-September, the Théâtre de Die will approach the Drômoise, a major cycling event organized since 2007 by the cycling club of Die, for a highlight of street theatre and current music in the colors of sport: a véloparade, great cycling carnival, the flagship event of the exchange between culture and sport, prepared upstream by the establishment of participatory workshops with volunteers and schools.
Off-piste : On October 18, MC2 Grenoble will present this show directed by Matthieu Cruciani. Martin Fourcade, great champion of French biathlon, will retrace his career as a very high level athlete through intimate stories and confessions on the backstage of the competition. From his native Pyrenees and his first steps on skis with his older brother Simon, to the Olympic consecration, he recounts his journey, his joys and his sorrows.
Romeo and Juliet On July 6 and 7, as part of the Tombées de la Nuit festival, the Lynceus collective set up an open-air stage in a stadium. The public was divided into two clans of supporters, the Montaigus and the Capulets, on either side of the stands. Throughout the play, the audience was immersed in the device: the exacerbation of the feeling of belonging to a camp was at least as obvious as the passion linking the members of the two families.
Medieval Péplum : on 3 October, Olivier Martin Salvan, in collaboration with the Centre national pour la création adapté in Morlaix, will lead us into a multidisciplinary show combining theatre, visual arts, dance and music; 15 actors will be immersed in a questioning of the colorful madness and the spirit of the Middle Ages.
Discofoot : the Scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire proposes, on a football pitch, the project «Discofoot» carried out by the Centre chorégraphique national Ballet de Lorraine, combining contemporary dance and football. Discofoot is a crazy match choreographed by the dancers of the Ballet de Lorraine company, under the direction of Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Calley. The choreography is based on the rules and functioning of football matches. The performers combine a pre-established choreographic score with limitless improvisation possibilities, while respecting a golden rule: not to run. The only way to play is to dance! Each team is evaluated by a jury that gives points in the manner of judges in figure skating competitions. The goal is not only to score goals, but also to show the greatest creativity to do so. See you on September 23rd.
To read: Cultural Olympiad: the Theatre, Saint-Nazaire’s national stage
The Neolympiades: this original project of exchanges between sportsmen and archaeologists will be illustrated by a tour of the island on canoes rebuilt from models of the Neolithic period.
Drop : in the Dordogne, the National Circus Pole of Boulazac and the Company Crazyr'R, in partnership with several national stages, will propose «Drop» on September 1st: a show of high aerobatics designed for 12 acrobats, combining physical performance with artistic gesture. This creation will echo the world of rugby, while being part of the vast field of aerial forms of the new circus, and will bring together several hundred circus and sports spectators.
Agnès Gontier and Sound resonance highlight women’s sport through a project of four sound documentaries on women’s sport. The association of the Old Palace of Espalion and Philippe Meyer will offer until the 2024 Games a cycle of conferences, exhibitions, readings, songs and cinema around sport.
Battle and stoppage of play : in Toulouse and its surroundings, the Compagnie dernière minute will offer two plays by Pierre Rigal, which will focus on sport: «Bataille» on combat sports (11 October at the Université Toulouse Capitole 1, subject to confirmation - 13 October at the Centre culturel Henri-Desbals) and «Stoppages» around the football semi-final of the 1982 France-Germany World Cup (23 September at the Escale in Tournefeuille).
Cineconcert The Great Passion: This film on the theme of rugby will be presented in October in Auch by the Centre National du Cinéma (CNC), echoing the rugby world cup.
Mr. Potato Karim Rande’s creation confronts us with the question of disability for a circus artist, mixing the poetry of a wobbly body on his crutches, the strength of acrobatics, all accompanied by an extraordinary musician who can play all the instruments on stage.
The Art of Running : in Moselle, the castle of Malbrouck will propose from September 13, 2023 the exhibition "The Art of Running", dedicated to the vision of sport through comics. Through the classics of the 9th art - the Journal Tintin, Graton and his famous Michel Vaillant, and many other gods of the contemporary stadium - this colorful exhibition, full of exploits and nostalgia, welcomes all the curious and amateurs on the eve of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. From the biting caricatures of Serre to the exploits of Tony Estanguet, Zizou and our Moselle athletes, young and old will leave the castle exclaiming: «Long live the sport!» and "Long live the comic book!".
Extreme sport : this exhibition is proposed by the Galerie Poirel, in conjunction with the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, around the theme of the transformation of the body through collective sports; A gym will be installed inside the gallery and open to the public.
The beautiful gesture : the national stage «Les Scènes du Jura», the Compagnie El Ajouad and the artist Kheireddine Lardjam carry in 2022, 2023 and 2024 the project «Le beau geste» whose ambition is to bring together artists and athletes to create together an event at the crossroads of sport and theatre. In September 2023, a group of young athletes volunteers will engage in theatrical creation work with the objective of creating a troupe for the creation of a show mixing amateurs and professionals, which will end in March 2024.
The Photaumnales: the photographic festival will address, for its 20th edition, the theme of sport. Dedicated to the support of national and international contemporary creation, it will present in Beauvais and in the neighboring municipalities about forty exhibitions. The sport will be approached through a wide prism: events, sociology of practices, sports landscapes, exaltation of the body, portraits etc. There will be presented 6 exhibitions with the magazine L'Equipe and the agency Presse sport, recounting the great moments of sport history in the magazine, or a collective exhibition of 100 photographers, guests and friends of the festival since its inception, who will propose in images their own interpretation of sport. See you from 16 September to 31 December 2023.
Defeat in Rome : this play, dedicated to the journey of the Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bikila, is proposed by the Coal Company at the National Stage of Orléans. The first black African champion of the Olympic Games and winner of the Rome Marathon in 1960, he became a legend. He crossed the line barefoot, arriving at the very place where Mussolini, 25 years earlier, was delivering his declaration of war on Ethiopia. Through this theatrical text designed for five performers, the actors take a look at the life of this exceptional athlete, through the memory of his wife, Yewebdar. A great success for a year, the play will be played at the Avignon festival from July 7 to 24, then at La Criée Théâtre National de Marseille in early 2024.
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