Europe at the Autumn Festival in Paris
- from: 13.09.2008
- to: 21.12.2008
- In: Paris
Throughout Paris
The Autumn Festival in Paris plays host to a multitude of European artists who express their cultural diveristy through their discipline whether this be dance, theatre, visual arts or cinema.
agenda
13th September to 21st December
Practical
Throughout Paris
When in 1972 Michel Guy created the Autumn Festival in Paris, he wanted to make the space that separates us from the rest of the world more perceptible, to invite the rest of the world to come to us.
Thirty seven years later, the world has blazed a trail but the the path that separates us from man, "this chasm which we cannont lean over without getting dizzy" is still quite a long and difficult path to travel. This 2008 festival is dedicated to man, that we must decipher in his complexity and his multicultural influences.
On our doorstep, Europe has become more surprising, a chessboard that we think we know and at the same time whose voices continually demand new independances and to be part of the same group. The Europe invited by the Festival over these recent decades has always explored its wider boundaries which go "from the Atlantic to the Urals"
Among the guests, you will note for example, the presence of Christian Boltanksi, the French visual artist boarn at the end of the Second World War and whose work is profoundly marked by the memory of the holocaust. Caterina Sagna, who studied at the Cie Sutki in Turin, presents her show "P.O.M.P.E.I".
In the theatre, the two Sicilians Francesco Sframeli and Spiro Scimone perform Nunzio in their native language with subtitles in French. The Englishman, Lloyd Newson and his DV8 Physical Theater present their new show "To be Straight with You" and the Belgian, Guy Cassiers comes to perform his tragedy "Mefisto For Ever".
Music lovers can listen to the interview with the Italian accordianist Teodora Anzellotti and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra on its works by Gérard Pesson. Momo Kodama on piano, Jorg Widmann on clarinette, Carolin Widmann on violin and Christian Poltera on cello: three Europeans and a Japanese highlighting the musical traditions that connect Japan and Europe.
With around fifty propositions, flagship events or shows by young performers, the 37th Autumn Festival in Paris continues its founding purpose: a cosmopolitain combination of disciplines and innovation with the desire to address a wider audience. A multitude of artists from Europe and worldwide can be discovered throughout the festival from 13th September to 21st December.
- Updated: 23.12.2008
