Cultural offers theaters

Pistes..., from March 19 to 29, 2025
Penda Diouf
Is a black woman traveling alone brave? Author Penda Diouf uses the pretext of autofiction to reveal Namibia's great forgotten history. In the hollow of her road-trip narrative, the exactions of German colonization take shape.

Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna, Thursday March 13, 2025 at 8pm
Soa Ratsifandrihana
Between orality, musical composition and choreographic creation, a show that reminds us that our bodies, like our words, are bearers of stories.
Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna, three Malagasy words meaning comparison, transmission, and rivalry. The second chapter of a diptych begun with her radio creation Rouge Cratère, choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana seeks a vocabulary between bodies and history to understand what links them and what singularizes them. Soa is joined by guitarist Joël Rabesolo and performers Audrey Merilus and Stanley Ollivier to construct a new otherness where bodies emerge from their muteness by offering themselves the possibility of language.

Radio live - vivantes, Friday March 28, 2025 at 8pm 
Aurélie Charon / Amélie Bonnin
For the past ten years, Radio live has been bringing together young people from all over the world, in a show nourished by sounds and images produced live, where the faces of previous generations and those coming up bring their life stories to the stage. Everything is written but what is said: the words are alive and spontaneous. In the spring of 2024, Aurélie Charon and Amélie Bonnin create a new episode, Radio live - Vivantes. The collective story of three young women from Syria, Bosnia and Ukraine. A tale of contemporary conflicts, memories and scars, anger and tenderness that remain intact. Part radio drama, part documentary, this protean performance explores memory, identities, commitment and intergenerational transmission to bring about better times.

Braveheart, Tuesday April 29, 2025 at 8pm
Wael Kadour
From the writing of trauma to the trauma of writing. A powerful show about the wounds caused by exile.
Written and directed by Wael Kadour, Braveheart plunges us into the poignant story of Aline, a Syrian refugee recently settled in France. No one cares about Aline's tragedy anymore; the world is far too busy with a pandemic and new wars. With a lot of grief and a little willpower and love, she tries to go on living. But the world she has managed to build for herself threatens to collapse once again: a rumor reaches her that her former tormentor has fled the country and become a refugee, just like her.
In the grip of delusions caused by her traumatic past, Aline must find a new reality for her life. She immerses herself in writing her story, while living a love affair. But little by little, the boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred. The mechanics of violence gradually lead Aline into a destructive spiral. Creation becomes the mirror of a soul as weak as it is courageous, damaged by exile.

Balle de match, Tuesday March 11, 2025 at 8pm
Léa Girardet / Cie Le Grand Chelem
In 1973, the tennis world and social movements were shaken by a spectacular event: Bobby Riggs, a provocative retired tennis player, challenged the world number 1, Billie Jean King. His goal? To prove the alleged superiority of men and discredit the player's demands for equal pay. Billie Jean King accepts the match, determined to defend not only her honor, but that of all women fighting for equality.

Fast, Tuesday March 26, 2025
Didier Poiteaux / INTI Théâtre
FAST is a show structured around a double movement: deconstruct to better reconstruct. The more we become aware of the ravages caused by the textile industry, the more we take pleasure in taking care of our appearance. FAST attempts to shed light on this paradox, the better to overcome it. Part intimate journey, part documentary work and part poignant testimony, FAST questions the way we consume. More than a show about fast fashion, FAST is above all a joyful reflection on our relationship with the world. A reflection conducted through play, humor and a variety of inventive media.

And their hearts are still smoking, Saturday April 5, 2025 at 6pm
Margaux Eskenazi / Cie Nova
Traversing memories of the Algerian war from its beginnings to its present-day entanglements, the show was built around testimonies, gathered from the families, loved ones and neighbors of the artistic team. The play revolves around seven characters whose points of view and positions differ. An investigation that moves from testimony to play, from reality to fiction, from the poetry of Kateb Yacine or Assia Djebar to history, Et le coeur fume encore seeks to unearth the stories of this long-suppressed war, to read through them the social and political fractures of today's France. This intelligent and joyful theater is a gentle resistance against amnesia!

Habiter, May 20-23, 2025
With Habiter, author and director Patricia Allio and actor Pierre Maillet set out to undo a normative, naturalistic conception of gender duality, in order to think about the mutable, plural nature of identity. A queer fantasy, this monologue in the form of a little raw theater incorporates as many seemingly whimsical philological digressions as documentary illustrations borrowed from recent news or art history. Through language games and onomatopoeic and anagrammic pirouettes, this eulogy of a nomadic inter and trans-species identity opens up to the political consideration of a world without borders.

Une ombre vorace, May 20-24, 2025
Jean Vidal is a mountain guide. His father, a famous mountaineer, disappeared while attempting to climb the Matterhorn solo thirty years ago. On a recent ascent, Jean Vidal is surprised by a storm when he enters a cave and discovers a frozen body. As he approached, surprised and horrified, he realized it was his father's body. Two years later, a film producer calls on a famous actor, Michel Roux, to bring Jean Vidal's odyssey to the screen... In Une ombre vorace, by bringing these two protagonists to life, Argentine director Mariano Pensotti, with his acute sense of narrative, composes a "fictional documentary work", a story presented as real but whose imaginary part is almost total.

The new path (Sinnoi group), May 27, 2025
SINNOI, a motley and singular quartet, delivers with The New Path, a music unique in its genre, joyfully blurring the boundaries between styles, to the rhythm of deliciously hybrid compositions. The group presents itself as the summit meeting of Wonsool Lee, a bassist renowned on the Korean jazz scene; Bora Kim, whose vast musical range navigates between gyeonggi minyo (Korean folk song) and jeongga (traditional vocal genre); Godam, electronic musician and Nayeon Lee, wind instrument player.

Min el Djazaïr, March 6-22

Alger, early 50s. Babeth and Simone, two young sisters from a five-generation family of cloth merchants, live a quiet life. But as they take on the responsibilities of adulthood, the world around them begins to crack. Jewish by religion, French by nationality but Algerian all their lives, they are part of a community torn apart by the war of independence. When it comes to making choices, their paths diverge.

Lisière, March 24-29, 2025

A rejected teenager runs away to the forest. Her path leads her to a community of women who live on the edge. She stays, forges restorative bonds, and discovers another way of living together, in dialogue with the Living all around her. Little by little, she comes to understand that deep in the forest, a woman is wandering, fleeing human beings at all costs, and that the community is watching over her from afar. The teenager, hunted by the police, sets out on the trail of the enforcer. In this way, she traces her path towards her own metamorphosis, to perhaps find the adult she will become for tomorrow's world.

Workshop #5 Winds and electronics, March 30, 2025

The one who speaks loudest is not necessarily the one who is right. In a world dominated by loudspeakers and grandiloquent speeches, composer Mario Lorenzo and the musicians of L'Imaginaire welcome us around a low-tech installation built from gourds serving as sounding boards. The apparent simplicity of the device and the abundance of low-intensity sounds become a political and ecological manifesto. For today, our silences are permanently threatened by the squeaks of our agitations.