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Bertrand Belin sculpts a deliberately wandering pop poised between rock and chanson, threaded with jazz and blues. On his latest album Watt he explores existential themes through poetic, mysterious and luminous writing. His crooner-like delivery and elegant harmonic language combine introspection with expansive, almost stellar arrangements, guiding the listener from intimate passages to wide sonic horizons. The concert offers an elegant, reflective musical voyage.

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Directed and adapted by Omar Porras, La visite de la vieille dame stages a bitterly comic and satirical examination of justice, greed and communal corruption. Porras also performs the exultant, wigged and lace-clad titular millionaire, shaping a grotesque centrepiece. Fredy Porras co-signs the scenography and Marie Robert assists direction. The ensemble, led by Pierre Boulben and Manon Castellano, navigates between ferocity and jubilation in a bold tragicomedy that decapitates conventions and provokes reflection.

In French.

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The Inspector Cluzo, a two-man Gascon rock duo who also run a farm in the Landes, balance raw energy and ethical commitment. Their tenth album, Less Is More, produced by Vance Powell, was recorded live in Nashville in four days and mixed in three. Rooted in indie self-production, their work explores ecology, the ideas of D.H. Thoreau and post-growth thinking. On stage they translate these convictions into volcanic, high-energy shows honed over more than 1,300 concerts across 67 countries.

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Actapalabra is a wordless fantasmagoria performed by two clowns condemned to circle endlessly. Joan Mompart and Philippe Gouin shape a precise physical score where the absurdity of a routine recalls Chaplin’s Modern Times. Through playful repetition the piece gently shifts from mechanical deadlock to attention to the other and the unknown, blending humour and sensitivity. A universal, tender short piece that poetically invites a rediscovery of our shared humanity.

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Created by Pierre Guillois, Foutue bergerie is a mordant, comic fable set on a farm at the city’s edge where grieving humans share the stage with blunt, philosophising animals. A peasant family struggles with the loss of a son while sheep speak with sharp tongues, a young intern stands out among hardened characters and a journalist confronts the chemical group linked to the tragedy. Performers shift roles and give voice to grieving sheep in an absurd, farcical rural drama.

In French.