2011
Corteo (which means “cortège” in Italian) is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. Combining acrobatic feats, comedy and acting, Corteo takes the audiences into a theatrical world of fun and spontaneity, located in a strange space...
2011
Author: Michel Tremblay – Director: Christian Bordeleau – Cast: Cécile Magnet, Yves Collignon, Sophie Parel, Marie Mainchin. We are in the family kitchen. Manon and Carmen, two sisters aged 24 and 25, meet again and take stock 10 years after the events...
2011
The Opéra National de Nancy presents Le Sacre du printemps choreographed by Ginette Laurin Originally choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Le Sacre du printemps (1910–13) has since been revisited by the great choreographers, including Maurice Béjart...
2011
For the last 7 years Lyon welcomes the festival SPONTANéOUS. It has for vocation to celebrate and to encourage the spontaneous creation during a week: every evening allows to discover a new size of improvised entertainment. And how to speak...
2011
On the occasion of the publication of Burqa de chair (“Flesh Burqa”) by Nelly Arcan, the Canadian Cultural Centre, in collaboration with Éditions du Seuil, is pleased to invite you to a reading with Bertrand Visage, author and publisher, and...
2011
Thursday, January 20, 1483. London is engulfed in snow; only the highest tower of the royal residence is visible. King Edward V lies dying and the crown is already the object of everyone’s desire. In the prevailing chaos, six pitiless...
2011
The Théâtre Essaïon in Paris presents Fille du Paradis adapted and directed by Ahmed Madani from the novel by Nelly Arcan, Putain, published by Éditions du Seuil. The actress Véronique Sacri plays the role of Cynthia, a young literature student...
2011
According to the novel The hole in the wall by Michel Tremblay, adaptation Lionel Astier and Geneviève Boivin. Get ready to listen the story of a little girl from Montreal, whose the dreams of glory had an equal only in her...
2011
At 10:30 a.m. at the Canadian Cultural Centre. Tuktu, le petit caribou is a tale that allows children to discover the Inuit world through a very sweet story and a show blending image and music. Show for children aged two...
2011
The Festival of Francophonies in Limousin proposes you a survey of the French-speaking live performance. To celebrate Canada, the music is honored with Radio Radio, a Canadian electro rap band which sings in French and in ” chiac ” (mixture...
2011
Émilie ne sera plus jamais cueillie par l’anémone by Michel Garneau, Monday, September 26, 8 p.m. A reading of the play by the Quebec author Michel Garneau inspired by the life of Emily Dickinson, by the Les p’tits Vertiges company. ...
2011
In partnership with the Canadian cultural center Folie Théâtre presents the play “Jean and Béatrice” of Quebecois playwright Carole Fréchette on Helene Lebarbier‘s direction and with Valérie Parisot and Frédéric Gray, comedians of The Clique’s company. ” Young heiress looks for...
2011
The First Nations territories have a lot in common with Nièvre and central France: great natural beauty, hunting and fishing traditions, scattered settlements – assets that lead to complicated relationships with modernity. Arts et Paroles set itself the ambitious task...
2011
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados, will be hosting the sixth edition of La Semaine Acadienne, the most important event dedicated to Acadia in France. The festival La Semaine Acadienne was founded in 2006 to pay tribute to Acadian solders, sadly so often forgotten...
2011
The Parfums d’intimité, adapted and directed by Christian Bordeleau from Les Anciennes odeurs by Michel Tremblay. After 300 performances throughout France and Switzerland since it was first produced at the Festival d’Avignon in 2007, it will be broadcast on the...
2011
This year the 11th edition of Le Festival International du Conte en Uzège (The International Storytelling Festival) is in honor of Canada and from June 17th to June 26th the program will feature a list of popular Canadian artists. In partnership with the Canadian cultural...
2011
The festival L’Humour en Capitales once again invites its friend from the Festival Grand Rire de Québec to take part in the Humour du Monde gala at the Théâtre Dejazet in Paris on June 6, 2011. A slew of talented...
2011
The actress Chantal Lavallée presents “Autour de Liszt” (1811–1886) in the company of the soprano Susanne Burstein, the pianist Sylvain Combaluzier and the clarinettist and flutist Lionel Milin. The show is an exploration in music and words of the life...
2011
Le Théâtre de la Ville presents Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde ! by Dave St-Pierre A crazy show. Raw, unabashed choreographic language. Poetry. An artistic sensibility. Humour
2011
The Quebec director Denis Marleau presents Agamemnon by Seneca at the Comédie Française on July 21–23, 2011. The cast features Michel Favory, Cécile Brune, Françoise Gillard, Michel Vuillermoz, Elsa Lepoivre, Julie Sicard, Hervé Pierre. For many years, Denis Marleau has directed...
2011
Décalages Horaires is a new project whose aim is to set up temporarily in a location and explore a set of themes through many forms and media. More than a simple concert or an isolated installation, it the combination of...
2011
La Nuit européenne des Musées 2011 At the Canadian Cultural Centre, May 14, 2011, from 5 p.m. The Canadian Cultural Centre joins forces with La Nuit des Musées 2011. The exhibition Diana Thorneycroft’s Extraordinary Stories: Caustic Landscapes of the Canadian...
2011
Vancouver choreographer-dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino is back in France with PARADIS/Paradise, a cross-continental dance project in collaboration with French musician-composer Emmanuel de St Aubin and Vancouver media artist Donna Szoke. In exploring the relationship and breath of dance through live...
2011
At 7:30 p.m. at Ciné 104, Pantin Live animation performance followed by a discussion with the artist Recorded images are quickly erased and continuously replaced by new drawings, produced as the performance develops. Simultaneously, three superimposed animated films are altered...
2011
The 2011 edition of the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis gives Canadian contemporary dance its due. Jolie, solo, choreography by Ula Sickle, performed by Jolie Ngemi, a young dancer from Kinshasa. An ode to the creativity and determination of Congolese...
2011
In collaboration with Jean Jauvin and Laurent Meslé Théâtre de la Bastille
2011
One of the main contemporary puppetry events in France and Europe, organized by the Théâtre de la Marionnette in Paris since 2001, it showcases some of the biggest names on the international puppetry scene: the brand new creations of these...
2011
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine After its public and critical success in Paris, the play Jean et Béatrice by Carole Fréchette will be performed at the Théâtre Story Boat in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and then tour France.
2011
Written and directed by Robert Lepage. With Yves Jacques Historical and intimate, this play gives star billing to two brothers shaken by the death of their mother and moved by the Russian cosmonaut Leonov’s first steps in space. Yves Jacques...
2011
The two Canadian tenors David Curry and Pascal Charbonneau are part of the cast of the musical thriller Sweeny Todd presented at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris. A story of revenge, Stephen Sondheim’s musical, staged for the first time...
2011
Compagnie la Naïve presents the Jean-Rock Gaudreaults play Mathieu trop court, François trop long, the success of the Festival Off at the last Festival dAvignon. The story of a friendship between two boys that should never have existed if life...
2011
The Théâtre de la Bastille à Paris presents JJ’s Voices by the choreographer and performer Benoît Lachambre in company with Ballet Culberg. The performers take twenty or so key words from the Janis Joplin songs “Try”, “Bye Bye Baby”, “Moody...