After Désobéir and La Tendresse, Julie Bérès continues to explore identity through the prism of civil disobedience in Épopées. Young men and women from Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, Israel and Palestine bear witness through dance, song and music; their artistic practices become sources of resilience and defiance. Between gravity and humour, truth and fiction, the piece weaves intimate testimony and political urgency into a sensitive theatre where collective vitality reshapes perceptions.

Created by Guillaume Cayet, Nos empereurs is a decolonial saga that plunges into the white and French presence in Benin from 1895 to today. The play follows Armand Lamarque, a French army captain turned palm-oil planter whose convictions collide with local realities and drive him toward madness. Combining family epic, historical fable and magical realism, Cayet interrogates the legacy of French colonialism and its contemporary survivals. Produced by Compagnie Le désordre des choses and La Comédie de Valence – CDN Drôme-Ardèche.

In French.

TamUjUntU brings together dancers from Brazil and South Africa in a percussive, high-energy choreography that fuses pantsula, passinho, funk and urban dance. Created through collective improvisation, the piece stems from the everyday rhythms of performers and a shared vocabulary developed between Via Katlehong and Gente under choreographer Paulo Azevedo. The staging favors fluid, generous movement and raw physicality, inviting a liberating and convergent experience that blurs cultural borders and foregrounds community-driven urban traditions.

Presented by Compagnie Kourtrajmé, this double bill features two new pieces written and performed by the actors themselves. Kiss stages a passionate kiss to interrogate the boundary between representing and living the moment, probing sincerity, consent and power dynamics. Le Renard is an intimate, incisive solo in which Dayana Bellini examines survival strategies amid psychological distress through a tale of cunning, flight, transformation, resilience and the search for freedom. The work is marked by close, theatrical intensity and raw emotional textures.

In French.

Birds on a Wire, the duo of Rosemary Standley and Dom La Nena, reimagines timeless songs with intimacy and lightness. Moving from Pink Floyd to Boby Lapointe and from American classics to traditional songs from around the world, their third album Nuées Ardentes returns to the core of their encounter: voice and cello. Their arrangements are at once refined and raw, spare yet rich, blending erudition and tenderness to blur borders and reveal new emotional textures.

Choreographed by Florence Caillon, Orphées draws on the Greek myth of Orpheus to probe trust and doubt. Six performers move between real and virtual worlds in a choreographed circus where dance becomes acrobatic. Blending humour and poetry, the piece examines our uncertainties in an information-saturated age, exploring how bonds of trust are made, broken and ultimately earned. The staging balances virtuosity and intimacy, inviting reflection through striking physicality and moments of lyrical absurdity.