2011
The Quebec circus company Les 7 doigts de la main will be taking the shows La vie and Psy all over France. An acrobatic marriage of body, mind and soul, Psy takes us into a universe that goes beyond the...
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
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
From December 14 to December 23, Tarmac in Paris February 16 and 17 Théâtre Jean Vilar in Paris Nuit dorage is a creation of the Carousel, adapted and staged by Gervais Gaudreault according to the work of the Quebecois illustrator...
2011
For his return to directing, Jeannot Painchaud proposes a show filled with daring and modernity. iD combines the circus arts and those of urban dances such as b-boying/b-girling, breakdancing and hip hop. The action of iD takes place in the...
2012
Urgently called to his mother’s bedside, teenager Wahab feels irrepressible anger well up inside him on the way to the hospital: a cry of despair at fate, a cry of guilt, the grief of losing his mother and even greater...
2012
Show for children aged three to six. At 10:00 a.m. Tuktu, the little caribou, finds himself alone in the plains of the tundra after a snowstorm. He then meets a young Inuit, who becomes his friend and shows him his...
2012
Sunday, January 22, 8 p.m. at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. After their debut last season, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra are back with a programme dedicated to Ravel featuring the charismatic Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci. Still in his...
2012
A girl, Lirane, lives comfortably with her parents; a boy, Ferhat, lives in a tent in a refugee camp, near Lirane’s home but on the other side of the border, with his mother and younger brothers. She is Israeli, he...
2012
La compagnie des Ballets Jazz de Montréal est arrivée début mars sur le vieux continent pour une tournée européenne avec son programme intitulé « Chorégra’filles », composé des danses féminines Jack in a boxet Les Chambres des Jacques, chorégraphiées par Aszure Barton, ainsi...
2012
Forty years after the premiere of the play Les Belles-Soeurs by Michel Tremblay, a milestone in the history of Quebec theatre, the director and lyricist René Richard Cyr transformed it into a musical with music by composer and singer Daniel...
2012
À partir de 15h à l’Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, La cartoucherie 75012 Paris Focus sur l’émergence de la danse contemporaine montréalaise et des chorégraphes et danseurs québécois Benoît Lachambre, Daniel Léveillé et Frédérick Gravel. Ces rencontres invitent le public à...
2012
// 7 p.m. – An evening with Michel Tremblay // On the occasion of the publication of his new novel La grande mêlée by Éditions Actes-Sud (in bookstores on March 7, 2012), the Canadian Cultural Centre will be hosting a...
2012
Le Théâtre des Asphodèles et le Théâtre des Marronniers accueilleront huit compagnies théâtrales de Chicoutimi, Jonquière et La Baie au Québec pour un mini-festival de trois jours à l’image de la vitalité, le dynamisme et la créativité de la région...
2012
The Compagnie des Ballets de Monte-Carlo invites us to discover bODY_rEMIX, an emblematic work by the Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard, who for the first time has offered this world-renowned work to a company other than her own. The Ballets de...
2012
Théâtre d’Ivry Antoine Vitez Incendies suit le destin d’une femme, Nawal, prise dans les rets d’un conflit qu’elle n’a pas choisi et qui, pour retrouver son enfant disparu, va aller au bout de l’absurde horreur de ces déchirements sans fin...
2012
May 4-June 2, Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen / Nouveau Théâtre, Montreuil This year again, the best in Canadian contemporary dance is featured in Seine-Saint-Denis: twenty hears after the premiere of the solo work “Bras de plomb”, a collaboration with visual artist...
2012
L’Espace culturel Inuit, en collaboration avec le Centre culturel canadien, vous invite à assister à ce spectacle au Centre culturel canadien. Conteuse et comédienne franco-canadienne, Nathalie Krajick nous entraîne avec délicatesse et simplicité à la découverte des territoires et des peuples...
2012
A la Folie Théatre presents À toi pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou by Michel Tremblay, adapted and directed by Christian Bordeleau with the actors Cécile Magnet, Yves Collignon, Sophie Parel and Marie Mainchin. We are in the family kitchen. Manon and...
2012
Théâtre National de Chaillot. Sur fond d’apocalypse, dans une ville battue par des vents violents, Wajdi Mouawad confronte trois personnages avec leur passé commun. Sauf que celui-ci diffère pour chacun. Fermont, une ville minière à la frontière du Labrador. C’est...
2012
à 19h30 au Théâtre des Champs Élysées Etoile montante de la scène lyrique internationale, la mezzo-soprano canadienne Michèle Losier est acclamée par la critique tant pour la richesse de sa voix que pour sa présence scénique. Depuis ses débuts à...
2012
At 9 p.m. at Théâtre de la Tempête – Paris The festival June Events, organized by Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, presents Snakeskins, a new work by Benoît Lachambre. In this solo piece, he extends the reptilian metaphor and makes moulting...
2012
In partnership with the Compagnie Le Bruit du Frigo An evening alongside the international conference “Nancy Huston : Le soi multiple” / “Nancy Huston: the Multiple Self”, organized by the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. The programme: 6:30 p.m. bilingual reading by...
2012
June 9, 6:30 p.m. and June 10, 4:30 p.m. Théâtre de la Cité Internationale – Paris The Scènes Ouvertes à l’Insolite festival organized by the Théâtre de la Marionnette presents Rage by Vicky Côté. This show, produced by the Théâtre...
2012
7 p.m. An evening with the author hosted by journalist Delphine Peras of the magazine “L’Express/Lire” at the Canadien cultural centre. In this essay, Nancy Huston calls on her own experience and that of other artists to examine the various influences...
2012
Tanya Tagaq, the Diva of Nunavut, plays, turns, paints, moves, poses, sings, touches, shocks, unsettles, fills with wonder, demobilizes, and brings together. She was thrust onto the international scene in 2004, when the video of one of her early performances...
2012
Le Festival Interceltique de Lorient consacre 2012 comme « Année de l’Acadie ». Invitée d’honneur, la délégation acadienne présente en concert de nombreux artistes et groupes. Sont notamment annoncés, Dominique Breau, Dominique Dupuis, Fayo, George Belliveau, Joseph Edgar, La Virée, Lisa...
2012
Come to the Théâtre de Belleville at 9 p.m. to see a few of the slices of Simon Labrosse’s life, directed by Claude Viala. A modern-day tightrope walker, he constantly performs a balancing act between the comedy of his existence...
2012
For the new edition of the “Semaine des Cultures Étrangères”, the Canadian Cultural Centre is giving carte blanche to the Embassy of Haiti and will be hosting eclectic programming, which will be a real journey through Haitian culture. An exhibition...
2012
Théâtre National de Chaillot, Esplanade du Trocadéro, Paris The Théâtre National de Chaillot presents SOLO 30×30, an outdoor performance by the Quebec choreographer and dancer Paul-André Fortier. SOLO 30×30, developed in 2006, is a thirty-minute choreographic performance danced on thirty...
2012
Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris A lively parable about greed and addiction, La Scaphandrière is the fruit of the encounter of the worlds of Olivier Letellier, a director who uses subtle images; Daniel Danis, a wonderful storyteller; and Ludovic Fouquet,...
2012
Odyssud, the multidisciplinary cultural space of Blagnac in the Midi-Pyrénées, is celebrating its twenty-fifth season. The programming gives pride of place to Canadian artists. Singer Kellylee Evans, who has a crystal-clear and sensual voice, will be the guest of Big Band...
2012
Svadba/Wedding is an opera produced for the first time in Toronto in June 2011by Queen of Puddings Music Theatre. The composer, Ana Sokolovic, is a Canadian of Serbian origin. The story takes place the night before Milica’s wedding. Her friends have...
2012
Wednesday, October 17, 3 p.m., ages 6+ Thursday, October 18, 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., ages 6+ Le songe de Nanook recounts an Inuit’s waking dream. Two musician-dancers, barely visible at the beginning, gradually assert themselves. The projected images create...
2012
À 17h / 20h au Théâtre Paul Eluard de Choisy- le-Roi – Dès 6 ans Le Théâtre Cinéma Paul Eluard de Choisy-le-Roi accueille le circassien canadien Jamie Adkins, pour son spectacle Circus incognitus où il endosse tour à tour les habits...
2012
The plastic artist and contemporary dancer Sylvie de Ligny Pallez will be at the Comparaisons Fair 2012, with Art en Capital. Invited in the Installations “Libres group”, she will exhibit a mobile work evoking the equilibrium of natural elements. During...
2012
Du 30 novembre au 8 décembre 2012 à Paris, les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid créeront pendant 9 jours à Paris, au Palais de Tokyo et à la Gaîté lyrique, un espace de découverte et de réflexion entre nouveau cinéma et art...
2012
At 6 p.m. at the Canadian Cultural Centre, ages 6+ Pyjama parties come to France with the Brazilian-Canadian singer Bia and her three musicians. On November 8, Quebec children’s publisher La Montagne Secrète will be publishing a book-album, Pyjama Party,...