On (y) danse aussi l'été !

Summer and winter alike, Les Hivernales shines a spotlight on dance and confirms its role in supporting choreographic companies, opening up a wide range of opportunities for them at the world's largest theater festival, and asserting itself as a cultural space with a strong artistic identity.

PROGRAM :

10 h - 1 h 15
Mohamed Toukabri
Every-body-knows-what-tomorrow-brings-and-we-all-know-what-happened-yesterday
Creation 2025
In partnership with the Festival d'Avignon
Inspired by questions of memory and identity, this virtuoso solo explores the language of dance, blending hip-hop, personal history and collective heritage to create a poetic and political journey. A tribute to the encounters that shape us.


12:15 pm - 45 mn
Silvia Pezzarossi
Habemus Naufragium
Creation 2024
In partnership with Théâtre des Doms and Wallonie-Bruxelles International
In a world that can no longer imagine its future in the face of climatic, social and political upheaval, Habemus Naufragium is a spirited invitation to positive resilience.


1:50pm - 1:10am
Sylvain Riéjou | Association Cliché
Je badine avec l'amour (because all men are so imperfect and awful)
Creation 2023
Inspired by the cult 1980s film Dirty Dancing, choreographer Sylvain Riéjou revisits the figure of the love duo, deconstructing gender stereotypes with humor and self-mockery.

4:10 pm - 1 h
Soraya Leila Emery
TURN ON
Creation 2024
In partnership with the CHS - Sélection suisse en Avignon
In TURN ON, Moroccan-born Swiss dancer and choreographer Soraya Leïla Emery uses her dual culture as a prism through which to interrogate the experience of female pleasure.


6:15 pm - 1 h
Bruno Pradet | Compagnie Vilcanota
De loin si près
Creation 2024
A hypnotic choral piece that takes us on a veritable journey of initiation, from disorder to unison, from isolation to sharing.

8:20pm - 50 mins
Sandrine Lescourant | Compagnie Kilaï
Icône(s)
Creation 2017 - Reprise 2022
With the support of DRAC PACA and Région Sud
In this piece, Sandrine Lescourant and her four performers question our social mechanisms and our quest for freedom. A high-tension quartet that blows a wind of emancipation across the stage and invites us to rethink our role as spectators.

10 p.m. - 1 h 15
Mélanie Demers | MAYDAY
Public confession
Creation 2021
In partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Between grace and brutality, painful secrets and liberating truths, this show plunges us into our intimate relationship with truth and leaves us shaken by its emotional force.



Tickets will be available :
- for programmers on June 11,
- for the public on June 18

Info & booking: 04 90 82 33 12
Reservations for Mohamed Toukabri's solo can be made directly with the Festival d'Avignon box office.

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