Festival XS 2019
Drama, dance, circus, puppets, theatre of objects and installations
While walls are being built everywhere – be they physical, economic or symbolic – we suggest you ignore them and reverse the trend. And again, as always, we (…)
While walls are being built everywhere – be they physical, economic or symbolic – we suggest you ignore them and reverse the trend. And again, as always, we (…)
Through this series of portraits, Julian wishes to highlight these "ordinary people", who nevertheless stand out from the ordinary, each in their own way. B (…)
Objects, be they for work, comfort, from memory, parts of collections, gifts, jumble... After research on the theme of possession and loss, this, the first (…)
What stories are held in the “African objects” that are found in our European interiors? A video installation of interviews with owners that tells us about (…)
Through technology which dilates the senses and amplifies the sounds of the body, two feminine silhouettes mirror each other. Each gesture has its own reaso (…)
In which a passionate zoologist evokes the fascinating world of animals... with household objects! We encounter swans made from plastic bags, snails sculpte (…)
A dance performance performed like a manifesto, based on a text by contemporary English writer Martin Crimp. With movements and voice, the duo seeks the con (…)
Dancer Ares D'Angelo throws himself headlong into the fray without hesitation or reference point. Staying upright is an act of resistance more than a positi (…)
Urban encounters in an improvised musical performance. The actors and a musician check out the Théâtre National’s neighborhood and are inspired by the ane (…)
Miss Pom Pom Grrr will be working the turntables for all three evenings. Mistress of booty shaking by dispensing ultrasonic lashes of electro-funk-hip-boom- (…)
Allow yourself to be held by a serial killer in a cold and humid trailer. La Bakélite mistreats unfortunate everyday objects to plunge you into a thriller (…)
A top-flight conversation on two wheels: an acrobatic duo perched on a bicycle evoke sustainable development, gender studies and the mysteries of sexual ide (…)
Ce spectacle remplace "Demain dès l'aube" de Jeanne Dandoy. "Ma devise, c’est toujours : se recréer. Il faut se recréer… pour recréer… a better you. Et ç (…)
“...at school a lot of people identify with fascism; but it’s just trendy, I don’t think that it’s dangerous” Ada, 17, Italy. Combining interviews with thei (…)
An elegant and fragile performance where body(s) fall ad infinitum, La Chute is the expression of our faith in time and future. Life is a cycle of rising an (…)
Standing on stage at his drawing table, Koenraad Tinel illustrates an arctic Inuit tale as the audience watches. Mixing with the sounds of his pen and paint (…)
Between installation, one woman show, and transformative performance, Julia Perazzini explores the art of artifice. She portrays two stories and creates a t (…)
A waking dream or a nightmare? Inspired by daily life and the difficulty of being one’s self, Piergiorgio Milano takes us to a farcical but also a tender pl (…)
An exploration of the suspension and the fragility that push the body in its entrenchments, without touching the ground. Between circus and choreography, th (…)
When does the personal become political? How to tell the “anecdotal” from that which isn’t? Starting from the reality of the performance, this piece reexami (…)
Four actors at the start of a race. Get ready, get set, go! From the extreme tension in the starting blocks position to the movements of concentration, a pe (…)
Our era is filled with uncertainty: who knows what awaits us when we leave home? Imagining a situation in which we would be forced to defend ourselves or to (…)
At the edge of karaoke and contemporary art, Random Scream had 25 international artists pick a hit song and imagine the video in a karaoke version. From New (…)
A photograph is chosen online a few days before the performance. Starting with this image that questions, Alexandra Badea creates a fictional epistolary rel (…)
Multicolored and off the wall, this quintet of sequined nymphets perform some international hits from the Sixties to today. With their tart voices they play (…)
Explore and experience lip-syncing, a game and a mirror of our state of mind. In April 2019, there will be two dates to meet Delphine Bibet, Director and (…)
A quick round-up of the inhabitants of Frankenstein’s laboratory. One hundred stage characters created by Michael Pietsch. A huge collection of wooden c (…)
Exploring their family histories, Hervé Guerrisi and Grégory Carnoli ask us to question the theses of identity and origins, in the light of science.
Josse de Pauw, opera singer Claron McFadden, and pianist Christian Mendoza stand up for human beings in a musical and theatrical speech for the defence based on an essay by writer Arnon Grunberg and on a music of Kris Defoort.
Delphine Bibet explores the words of emblematic French songs and associates them with Roland Barthes’ Fragments in a musical show.
Séverine Chavrier, in the form of a road movie, brings us the tragic and all devouring passion of the feverish Faulkner novel.
Le Kids brunch propose un atelier pour les enfants. Participez ensemble à l’atelier parents-enfants et confiez-les ensuite à notre groupe d’animation pendan (…)