2023-07-04 16:50:57
Julie DeliquetDirector of the Gérard-Philippe Theater, National Dramatic Center of Saint-Denis, will become Wednesday July 5 only the second female playwright to open the Festival d’Avignon, in the Cour d’honneur of the Palais des Papes. By adapting for the stage the New York documentary Welfare by Frederick Wiseman, Julie Deliquet has chosen to speak out for the most vulnerable women and men, and to highlight those who work in the social field.
Pauline BayleDirector of the Public Theater of Montreuil (CDN) will present write his life a real dive into the work and life of Virginia Woolf, recounting the birth of an author.
The Department has decided to support these two creations which echo issues that cross Seine-Saint-Denis, and which will be deployed with a particular cultural action effort in the territory at the start of the school year. Their honoring consecrates the cultural policy of the Department which, beyond its competences, commits nearly 18M€ per year to promote access to culture and set up innovative mechanisms to move towards.
For this 2023 edition, the new director of the festival, Tiago Rodrigues, has also decided to program Bintou Dembele, whose company Rualité is supported by the Department, thus testifying to the vitality and diversity of creation in Seine-Saint-Denis. Considered one of the pioneers of hip-hop dance in France, Bintou Dembélé will present the performance stroll GROOVE in homage to Krump, a dance born in the 2000s in the poor neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
The beautiful Saint-Denis stage: showing and sharing dances from here and elsewhere
For more than ten years, the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis, with the city of Tremblay-en-France and the DRAC Île-de-France, has been supporting La belle scène Saint-Denis, an event that gives people to see to the spectators of the Festival d’Avignon of the choreographic creations that are invented in Seine-Saint-Denis. This programming allows promote the work of artists accompanied by the Louis Aragon Theater (stage under agreement of national interest) in Tremblay-en-Franceand whose creations are part of the “Territory(s) of dance” approach throughout the year, integrating the inhabitants and their environment.
This year, 9 creations, including 3 proposals in partnership with Danse Dense, will be presented from July 11 to 20 at La Parenthèse. Worn by choreographers from the French scene, but also from Senegal, Canada, Brazil and Ukrainemixed with influences ranging from hip-hop to traditional dances, they will reflect the diversity of contemporary dance hosted in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Youth led initiatives
The youth of Seine-Saint-Denis will also be well represented for this 2023 edition of the Festival d’Avignon.
On the airwaves first, since these are 2 young people from the MC93 in Bobigny and 3 young people in the integration project accompanied by the Making Waves association of Rosny-sous-Bois who will host the official radio station of the festival. Accompanied by 5 young people from the Priority Neighborhoods of the City of Avignon’s policy, they will receive elected officials and women and men of culture every day to talk about the ecological crisis, living together or even questions of ‘identify.
Moreover, 23 students from the Paul Eluard high school in Saint-Denis will follow a course of shows from the IN and OFF programming for 4 days. Accompanied by the team of the Gérard-Philippe Theater in Saint-Denis, these high school students will discover the Welfare show and will be made aware of the professions of cultural mediation. At the start of the school year, they will in turn mediate with their peers to discover the show at the TGP.
“The Festival d’Avignon marks this year without a doubt another step in the recognition and influence of the creation that is invented in Seine-Saint-Denis, in a close and singular dialogue with the territory and its inhabitants. Through the diversity of the proposals that will be presented, it is all the human and cultural richness of Seine-Saint-Denis that will be honoured: the creations presented are crossed by the questions that agitate our world, carrying messages of solidarity, interbreeding or struggle.
I am very proud of the path traveled with Karim Bouamrane, Vice-President in charge of Culture, and of the unfailing support that our Department provides to the artistic and cultural teams who work daily in Seine-Saint-Denis and promote our territory beyond. beyond its borders. When the youth of Seine-Saint-Denis is respected, when they are supported and valued, all their talents shine. This is what we will see at the Festival d’Avignon! »
Stephane TROUSSELPresident of the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis
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