Merce Cunningham

Thirty years after it was first performed, the South African visual artist William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company breathe new life into their Faustus in Africa! Behind its nostalgia-inspired aesthetic, this irreverent reinterpretation of Goethe is as relevant as ever.

With their long tradition of conferences, debates and dialogues on ideas, the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d'Automne have come up with a new format: a popular Evening School, open to the imaginations, works and questions of the 2025 edition. To think about community, Felwine Sarr proposes first of all to reflect on a cosmopolitics of hospitality, in conversation with the American philosopher Judith Butler.

Athens, Marseilles, Marrakesh, Paris; Isavella, Giannis, Elias, Philippe, Mustapha, Smaïne, Hedi, Mia, Lucas; Al Assifa, Al Halaka, Djellali Kamal, Mririda n’Aït Attik; today and yesterday, from the 1970s to the 2020s: Bouchra Khalili brings together all these places, experiences, voices, and moments in her multi-site, multidisciplinary project entitled Astérismes (Fig. 1 to 3).

Pascal Rambert, a major author and director of his generation, finds himself once again in the company of his faithful companions in an ambitious fresco dealing with the passage of time and family ties. Intended as a trilogy spanning five years, it explores what is left behind by our commitments and ruptures.

Following on from Romances inciertos, another Orlando, Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud extend their utopic fusion of dance and music based on South American repertoires. In the company of the Argentinian singer Nadia Larcher, they compose a cosmogonic universe in which voices resonate with the breathy sound of the sackbut and zapateo rhythms.