Theatre, dance, circus, music, performances and installation make up the program of 18 shows presented by artists from all backgrounds, different cultures and nationalities.
celebrate a culture that is quirky, independent, boundless and borderless
The summer meeting "will once again be festive, joyful, warm, international in return for the gloomy environment, the economic, environmental and political difficulties that impact our daily lives" promise of entry Laurence de Magalhaes and Stéphane Ricordel, director and director of the Festival (also at the head of the Théâtre du Rond-Point since January 2, 2023). The 2023 edition will be "Led by artists who will put in motion what they perceive of the world, place of language and source of actions".
The shows take place mainly outdoors, from the Lefuel courtyard of the Louvre Museum to the School of Fine Arts, from the forecourt of Notre-Dame to the Domaine de Chamarande, from the Centquatre to the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville and the Berges de Seine. Paris in the summer deploys itself in twenty or so often unexpected places. So many friendly spaces, internships, workshops of meetings and reflection.
At the end of the performances, a meeting is organized at the Lycée Jacques Decour:"A privileged meeting to remake the world, attend the shows and why not dance until early morning!"
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Static Shot
Opening of the Festival, honour to the choreographer Maud Le Pladec with Static Shot at the Cour Lefuel at the Louvre on July 10 and 11 at 9 pm and 10 pm. Created in 2021 with the dancers of the CCN - Ballet de Lorraine, Maud Le Pladec works the show as fixed shots in which movement and gaze never stop.
STATIC-SHOT © Laurent Philippe
In Static Shot, everything tells the bodies: how they interact, how they over, move, live or survive, abandon, attract, mingle, clash, transform. In 2020, the dancer and choreographer will also present Counting stars with you, a creation dedicated to musical matrimoine. His last creation in 2022, Silent Legacy, takes the form of a duo between 8-year-old Adeline Kerry Cruz, a young krump prodigy, and professional contemporary dancer Audrey Merilus.
Tales and legends
At each edition, Paris in the summer presents works that have marked the contemporary repertoire. The public can (re)discover Tales and legends by Joël Pommerat, a play in which the artifice of theatre is a striking mirror of our humanity. The director signs here a documentary fiction of anticipation on the construction of oneself in adolescence and the myth of the artificial creature.
Tales and Legends © Elisabeth Carecchio
Joël Pommerat continues his observation of contemporary values and identities by unveiling a slightly futuristic world in which humans and robots coexist. Like an anthropologist of the future, he observes a series of relationships between adolescents, adults and androids and explores with intensity the construction of social relationships and identities. Centquatre (Room 400) from July 11 to 13 at 8 p.m.
Charon
The monumental installation "Charon’s Wheel", by artist Peter Hudson, aka Hudzo, was premiered in 2011 at the Burning Man Festival (USA). It will be visible in Paris, place de la Fontaine aux Lions in La Villette. Charon represents a gigantic wheel almost ten meters high whose inner edges are flanked by twenty skeletons of human appearance.
Burning Man 2017 Charon by Peter Hudson © Photo by MitziPeirone
The wheel is fully powered by a dozen people working in unison. Passers-by are invited to participate themselves in this collective work and to shoot a series of six strings that turn the monumental object faster and faster. When the cable pullers are coordinated enough to rotate the wheel at the right speed, a strobe is activated, revealing the animation of the skeletons. This one tells the story of Charon, the mythological gondolier and ferryman of the Underworld, who transports the souls of the recently deceased through the Styx river, the last rite of passage on the way to the afterlife. Peter Hudson’s art is dedicated to the creation of large-scale zootropics. Zootropics are the first forms of animation dating from the 1800s. Place de la Fontaine aux Lions in La Villette from 11 to 30 July from 12 to midnight
Our hearts on earth
David Wahl and Olivier de Sagazan offer for Our hearts on earth a poetic performance. Performance inspired by a theory born in XVIIe century by Pierre Borel, ordinary doctor of the king Louis XIV who assures to hold in his cabinet of curiosity the irrefutable proof of the sexuality of the stones. This debate opposes those who believe the Earth is inert and those who think it is a gigantic living organism. The two artists, passionate about metamorphoses and transformations, immerse themselves in these theories.
© Erwan Floch
For Olivier de Sagazan, matter is clay. He sculpts it, makes a new skin, a body to write about. For David Wahl, matter is about stories; stories that are often misunderstood, sometimes incredible but always true, born from encounters with scientists and researchers. They give us the opportunity to explore the mineral and origin of our world. Here, mythical stories make clay the material of creation. Beaux-Arts de Paris, July 12 and 13, 7pm
The Real Levitation
With The Real Levitation, Camille Boitel and her team explore an incredible continent, free from attraction. Vertigo is what we are constantly trying to avoid", says Camille Boitel, a theatrical, choreographic and musical circus handyman.
The real levitation The immediate © The immediate
Conceived as an impromptu and a diversion of spectators, The Real Levitation is a short moment of which we must say nothing without revealing the effect of surprise, except that it is a feast of the senses. Passers-by become the public without having done it on purpose. All of a sudden, they lose a little weight and benchmarks.
The real levitation The immediate © Thomas Bohl
With this new creation and with this choreographic writing, Camille Boitel affirms that "only risk-taking is able to put emptiness in motion". Over the course of his performances he knew how to surround himself with a community of artists, gathered under the name of The immediate, to better observe humans resist breakup and shine a better light on their tremendous ability to fight and resist, on their infinite ability to recover from falls and imbalances… Montparnasse station, 21 and 22 July (4 pm, 4.30 pm, 5 pm) / Lycée Jacques Decour (8.30 pm, 9.30 pm). Produced by L'immédiat in agreement with the Ministry of Culture – DRAC Ile de France
The answer is land
On stage, with The answer is land, the Norwegian director and choreographer Elle Sofe Sara invites you on a journey into a world of legends. She Sofe belongs to the Sami people (indigenous peoples living in Lapland). It presents a choreographic concert inspired by the poem of the same name that touches the very heart of Sámi culture and whose adage could be: to live in harmony with others and in close connection with the environment.
The answer is land © Knut Aaserud
Seven female performers unite contemporary and traditional dances in a composition that recalls the most ancestral rituals, accompanied by the Yoiks, songs of the mountains performed live by the artists themselves-and most of which were specially composed for this purpose by the yoik singer and composer Frode Fjellheim. This poem conceived as a show celebrates living together. Jacques Decour High School, July 26 to 28, 10 pm
Piano Rubato
The duo, formed by jazz composer Stéphan Oliva and choreographer and trapeze artist Mélissa Von Vépy, imagine a concert of acrobatics. On stage, a grand piano installed in the hull of a ghost boat serves as a device for the performer who swings to the changing rhythms of the piano, playing rubato. The moving piano, a scenic and musical object, with an excessively long lid, like a ship’s sail five metres high, floats on dry land.
Piano Rubato © Christophe Raynaud De Lage
A sound vessel that swings in an endless journey, to the other world, as an attempt to get closer to the invisible, to the wandering souls of those who have left this earth. Mélissa Von Vépy and Stephan Oliva conceive this performance as a crossing in the open sea, sometimes calm, sometimes stormy. Here the captain is music, the woman is wind, her breath animates this strange piano-boat. All three, the musician, the trapeze artist and the piano, become instruments of passage, inextricable transmitters. By resonance or counterpoint of musical notes, to make the ship dance, Mélissa Von Vépy embodies physically and without affect, by her breath and her muscles, the woman-wind. La Monnaie de Paris, 25 and 26 July at 8 pm
Beat By Bits
Walkers will be able to applaud for three days Beat By Bits, a room with strobe cadence, danced in the open. For Paula Rosolen (choreographer from Argentina) techno is without context both a social, political and cultural event. On stage, five performers bring together the energy inherent in techno music. They embody its movement. Carried by the strength of the group, they engage their bodies in sequences of collective trance.
© Jörg Baumann
Beat By Bits is the adaptation of 16BIT which tells how this dance has become a voice of the most marginalized: afrofuturistic expression of the black community of Detroit or symbol of liberation and reunification during the fall of the Berlin Wall. 16BIT immerses itself in this recent history of electronic music, from the cobbled-together landscapes of the 1980s to the world-renowned genre of the 1990s. Notre-Dame de Paris (27 July, 7pm) - Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, (28 July, 7pm) and Berges de Seine (7 July, 29 July)
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