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 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.
PASS XS
PASS 1 DAY
→ 15€ full fare
→ 12€ reduced fare (under 25 years old and unemployed)
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→ 25€ full fare
→ 20€ reduced fare (under 25 years old and unemployed)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
On ne s’étonne plus assez de marcher sur la terre
Simon Carrot / La Tournoyante
CircusFive beings, confined in their individual realities cross paths, meet or ignore each other. Deformations of gravity appear, materialising in turn the desire (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Dans l’engrenage
Compagnie Dyptik
DanceFind 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Womanhood
Mille Lundt
Contemporary circusThree female characters in search of the fine line between man and woman. Combining fiction and reality, circus art, music and documentary, WoManHood aims t (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Hope hunt and the ascension into lazarus
Oona Doherty
DanceA 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
GOUPIL ET KOSMAO – Monstre(s)
Etienne Saglio
New magicIn 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Chroniques martiennes
Compagnie Dérivation
TheaterA succession of stories as intimate as they are surreal, the Chroniques Martiennes (“Martian Chronicles”) unfold over time like the conquest of a promised l (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Mode majeur de la fugue
Jennifer Cousin
THEATER / SOUND INSTALLATION - CreationMartine, 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Un pays sans rivière
Compagnie Maps
Theater"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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Becoming together
Briana Ashley Stuart
Dance / stepping / body percussions / solo interactifIn this interactive solo show, Briana Ashley Stuart uses the movement and energy of stepping – a traditional African American dance form – to achieve a cult (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Carré de Je
Kirn Compagnie
CircusCarré 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Les Yeux noirs
Cie De La Bête Noire / Celine Delbecq
ReadingTriptych 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Ceci n’est pas une femme blanche
Marion Alzieu
DanceIdentity 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Trajectoires
Julien Carlier, Gaëlle Solal
DanceThe performance Trajectoires is the meeting of choreographer Julien Carlier with classical guitarist Gaëlle Solal. The two performers explore organic and sp (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Plastic Heroes
Ariel Doron
OBJECT THEATREDesire, 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Boxed
Ariel Doron
OBJECT THEATREA 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Philippe (épisode 1)
Comment spectaculariser le doute troublant de l’incompréhension ?Le comité des fêtes
Theater, danceDespite 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Giftsongs
Virginie Benoist, Julie Calbete
VoiceTwo 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Buddy body
Elsa Poisot
MultidisciplinaryOne 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Stories of refuge
Dictaphone Group
Continuous installationWe 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. (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Columbia Circus
Cécile Léna / Cie Léna D’azy
CircusColumbia 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 (…)
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31 March > 2 April 2022Festival xs
Ykimnar
You know i’m not a robotMorgane Le Rest, Fabien Lartigue, Gabriella Cserhati
Robotic meetingAny 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 (…)
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1 April 2022Festival xs
Cabaret mademoiselle
Création collective
Cabaret / DJ setWith Cabaret Mademoiselle, you never know what to expect. Feathers, glitter, genderf*ck and questioning, get ready for a burlesque freak show that mixes gen (…)
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2 April 2022Festival xs
The Nerds
Concert bass band acoustique
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 (…)
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2 April 2022Festival xs
Les Filles à paillettes
Agathe Cornez, Eline Schumacher
DJ SetLike 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 (…)
