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 all its complexity with such a festive spirit. Never has so much grandeur been given to the short form.
This new edition of the XS Festival is a mosaic of snapshots inviting us to travel into the extraordinary diversity of scenic languages, into the smallest corners of the Théâtre National. It presents once more a programme rich in talent and diversity, reflecting this decade of which it is the culmination. For 10 years the XS Festival has been inventing, unfolding, and celebrating. And 10 years is a long time for short form.
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Five beings, confined in their individual realities cross paths, meet or ignore each other. Deformations of gravity appear, materialising in turn the desire (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
"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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
The performance Trajectoires is the meeting of choreographer Julien Carlier with classical guitarist Gaëlle Solal. The two performers explore organic and sp (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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. (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
These four music nerds put on a fourth-degree show. The concept: to create a dissonance between an attitude of uptight, asocial and awkward boys, and festiv (…)
Like the fly in the ointment, the worm in the apple or the fox in the henhouse, the Filles à paillettes take charge with their mythical sounds and their sha (…)
