Carte Blanche Alice Diop – Reformuler

Alice Diop first came across the prose poem by Robin Coste during an artist’s residency in New York. She then turned her attentions to it in 2023 as part of her Carte Blanche at the Festival d'Automne. Indeed, the text made such an impact on her that she decided to bring it to the stage. In it, the female narrator draws up an art history-related epic which goes in search of the ignored, objectified bodies of Black women.

Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues returns with Borda, a new piece that marks and celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças, a company that set up its home in the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro in 2004. 

In this latest creation by American director Faye Driscoll, she confronts us, to dizzying effect, with a sensory whirlwind. Weathering choreographs our bonds of reciprocity and seals a destiny which is of a necessarily common nature.

The meeting between Marlene Monteiro Freitas and Israel Galván feels inevitable, albeit belated. An invisible thread seems to connect the Cape Verdean choreographer and the Sevillian bailaor, bringing them together for a unique project. Face to face, they develop a new and immediate form of communication: a moment of pure joy and humour, an animated conversation based solely on the language of the body.

How can you find your place in a world flooded with information and digital fragments that disappear from one second to the next? At the crossroads between performance, stand-up, and a dialogue between technology and existential reflection, Vimala Pons once again questions the contemporary world by means of a deftly mischievous ballet, set to the music of Rebeka Warrior and Tsirihaka Harrivel.
 

What unites the two choreographers Nacera Belaza and Katerina Andreo is an undying urge to dance. In a diptych conceived for the Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon performers, they respond to each other in two new works bringing together multiple resonances.