Festival XS 2019

La Table Bleue

Inbal Yomtavian

In which a passionate zoologist evokes the fascinating world of animals... with household objects! We encounter swans made from plastic bags, snails sculpte (…)

Désirs

Michèle Noiret

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 (…)

L'objet de mon attention 1: tout ce que je possède

Cie. What's up

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 (…)

you will be missed

Anne Thuot, Sara Sampelayo, Flore Herman

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 (…)

Vous êtes (d')ici

Cie. Tadam

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 (…)

Fovea

Karine Ponties

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 (…)

Happy to separate my legs

Johanne Saunier

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 (…)

Dad is dead!

Mathieu Ma Fille Foundation

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 (…)

La caravane de l'horreur

Cie. Bakélite

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 (…)

Demain dès l'aube / cancelled

Jeanne Dandoy

J.C.

Juliette Navis

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 (…)

Extreme / Malecane - La fuite

Paola Pisciottano

“...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 (…)

La Chute

Johanne Saunier

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 (…)

Skeletvrouw / Femme squelette

Koenraad Tinel

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 (…)

What you need to know

Davis Freeman

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 (…)

Mondes

Alexandra Badea

A photograph is chosen online a few days before the performance. Starting with this image that questions, Alexandra Badea creates a fictional epistolary rel (…)

Pesadilla

Piergiorgio Milano

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 (…)

It's (just the two of us)

Julia Perazzini

Between installation, one woman show, and transformative performance, Julia Perazzini explores the art of artifice. She portrays two stories and creates a t (…)

Eymen

Elodie Doñaque, Fabian Fiorini

An exploration of the suspension and the fragility that push the body in its entrenchments, without touching the ground. Between circus and choreography, th (…)

Faux départ

Ingrid Von Wantoch Rekowski

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 (…)

CQVC

Jessica Gazon

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 (…)

Karaoke (art)

Davis Freeman

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 (…)

Les Trash croutes

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 (…)

Miss Pom Pom Grrr

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- (…)

Ordinary People

Exhibition by Julian Hills

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 (…)