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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]