Eonnagata
‘Eonnagata’, last year’s triumphant production from London’s Sadler’s Wells, is in Paris till the end of the week. The production brings together three of the world’s foremost creative minds:...
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Yvonne Rainer in Paris
The post-modern US dancer and choreographer, who trained with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham in the 60s, presents her two latest works tonight and tomorrow at the Centre Pompidou. The quartet...
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Festival EXIT 2011
Creteil’s fantastic annual festival EXIT returns this month with its typically avant-garde program of international theatre, dance and music. A highlight this year is a 100% Parisian project, a...
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Festival Hautes Tensions at La Villette
A new festival at La Villette opens next week, and presents a high-energy mix of hip-hop and other new urban dance forms and contemporay circus. Innovative performances from many French companies, but...
View Article‘Pina’ by Wim Wenders
The most exciting film out this past week is surely the world’s first 3D arthouse film, Wim Wenders‘ ‘Pina’. This feature-length dance film in 3D, with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina...
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Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-St-Denis
This resolutely international contemporary dance festival takes place throughout the month of May in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, inviting companies and choreographers from throughout Europe,...
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‘Rain’ by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
‘Rain’ by the contemporary choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker enters the repertoire of the Paris Opera Ballet, and opens next week. Rooted in an exhilarating minimalist score by Steve Reich,...
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‘L’Anatomie de la Sensation’ by Wayne McGregor
Star London choreographer Wayne McGregor returns to the Paris Opéra, after ‘Genus’ in 2007, with this new creation, inspired by the work of Francis Bacon. McGregor draws on the forms, colours and...
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Danser Sa Vie at the Centre Pompidou
Opening on Wed is this pioneering exhibition dedicated to the connections between the visual arts and dance, from the 1900s to today. Between Apollonian aspiration and Dionysian explosion of life,...
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Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour at Théâtre de la Ville
Tickets remain for shows in the second programme ‘Towards Infinity’ (20-23 Dec) of Merce Cunningham Company’s ‘Legacy Tour’, planned by Merce Cunningham before he died and opening at the Théâtre de la...
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FESTIVAL D’AUTOMNE 2013
The 42nd edition of Paris’ trailblazing performing arts festival opens tonight. Running through until mid January, the rich programme features a new collaboration from Olivier Saillard, curator of...
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