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Ordalie, directed by Nicolas Chapoulier and presented by La Compagnie Les 3 points de suspension, explores adolescence through voices collected in a high school. Anonymous interviews with pupils, teachers, the headmistress, CPE and a psychologist are captured, transformed and performed by four actors in a staging where identities shift and ages blur. The piece moves between intimacy and otherness, negotiating discomfort with a tone that is at once comic, tender and fragile.

In French.

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Choreographed by Laura Lamy and Tristan Robilliard, Partition unfolds through the spiral training technique they teach across Europe. Rooted in spinal rotation, relation to the floor and gravity, and coordinated interaction with partners, space and rhythm, the piece explores the body’s power and vulnerability. Performed by five dancers (casting ongoing), with music by Thomas Trichet and lighting by Nicolas Galland. Produced by Resodancer Company in coproduction with Théâtre François Ponsard and La Manufacture, Aurillac.

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Édouard Ferlet revisits The Köln Concert, the best‑selling piano album born from Keith Jarrett’s spontaneous live improvisation fifty years ago. On stage he re-examines the record’s themes alongside a second piano driven by a bespoke artificial intelligence, probing the relationship between improvisation and machine learning. The programme blends improvisatory dialogue, delicate pianistic textures and technological experiment to explore how creativity and learning intersect. Presented on an original idea from Printemps de Bourges, in coproduction with Bourges 2028.

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Directed by Muriel Imbach, Le nom des choses stages five performers in a poetic, playful investigation of language through a child’s gaze. Against a cloud of black confetti, the ensemble deconstructs and reshapes words, renaming objects to metamorphose realities. Combining theatre and philosophy, the piece mixes humor and lyricism to examine how language constructs and transforms the world, offering a gentle yet political reflection on imagination, naming and collective emancipation.

In French.

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Angèle’s Dreams is an intimate recital by Clédat & Petitpierre, a long-standing duo of sculptors, performers and choreographers. In a tender, sylvan universe a young protagonist and a surreal creature — bird beak, rabbit ears and blue-green fur — meet and bond through music and movement. The artists blend sculpture, puppetry and live performance to create whimsical, sometimes comic encounters that evoke an imaginary bestiary. A gentle, family-oriented piece about friendship, wonder and playful discovery.

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Twenty years after the album that brought him to wider attention, Abd Al Malik revisits Gibraltar in a musical performance that probes questions of identity through poetry, wisdom and sincerity. Presented by Les visiteurs du soir, the staging brings together an ensemble of musicians and a dancer to reinterpret the album’s tracks with intimate arrangements and choreographic accents. The result is a contemplative and lyrical evening that examines belonging, memory and cultural dialogue.

In French.