El Conde de Torrefiel

The latest production by the Catalan company El Conde de Torrefiel invites us to close our eyes in order to better open them. It unveils a space in which the audience's imagination encounters the virtuosity of this extraordinary creative duo.

La Cour des petits-parents is a play and care space for children and parents conceived by artist and educator Graziela Kunsch, inspired by Emmi Pikler’s educational approach and Ute Strub’s sand-based experiments. 

To inaugurate this colourful Carte Blanche event at the Festival d'Automne, the Maison des Métallos will come alive at 2pm with a varied programme open to all. 

On the occasion of this Carte Blanche, Publications Studio Métallos is born—an ephemeral space resulting from the collaboration between Publication Studio Paris / After 8 Books and Publication Studio São Paulo / Parquinho Gráfico, set up at Casa do Povo. 

Inspired by the eponymous work of the French anthropologist Bruce Albert and the Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, La Chute du Ciel takes us to the heart of the cosmology of this people.

In communities of the diaspora, music can be a powerful tool for collectively preserving memories. Along with storytelling, traditional languages, and dancing, songs can represent a living home for stateless nations.

Throughout the Carte Blanche of the Festival d’Automne, the Maison des Métallos sets up a boxing ring in the very heart of its hall.

A group of people gather around a table for one last meal. One of them announces their imminent death. Taking its inspiration from the Last Supper, the MEXA collective invites the audience of the Carte Blanche Casa do Povo to a banquet performance, a piece which looks into the memory of the deceased and the need to tell their stories.

As part of European Heritage Days and Carte Blanche Casa do Povo, Maison des Métallos is offering Balades des Communs (Walk of the Commons). This event invites residents to meet the people who bring the neighbourhood to life and keep it moving.

Rooted in African and Afro-Brazilian cultures, members of the Ilú Obá De Min collective are coming to Paris for the first time. Founded in 2004, this collective now brings together nearly 400 women and opens the São Paulo carnival each year with its percussionists, dancers, and stilt walkers, always paying tribute to Black female figures.

On the occasion of L'École du soir—new cycle of thought imagined by the Festival d'Automne and the Centre Pompidou, in complicity with Felwine Sarr — a series of meetings and workshops unfold around the question "A common life", whose first meeting will take place on October 19 at the Théâtre de la Ville with Judith Butler.

Major artist of the contemporary theatrical scene, the author, director and performer Carolina Bianchi offers a one-day workshop around Sarah Kane’s texts and her research, mixing reading and writing practice.

Born in the early 2000s in the southern neighborhoods of Los Angeles, krump is an improvisational dance style based on percussive movements, body isolations, and intense emotional expression. As a practice of empowerment and transformation, it channels both individual and collective tensions through the body. 

The Brazilian director Martha Kiss Perrone, a close collaborator of the Casa do Povo, leads the sick residence.vitale.