“Festival Paris l’été” opens Monday a month of exceptional artistic performances

For almost a month, the Festival Paris l’été brings together a multitude of artists of all kinds with, on the program, a selection of around thirty new acts, often based on corporeality, and extraordinary proposals. Demonstrations that take over places mainly in the open air, outside the traditional places of spectacle, to shake up the relationship with the public: national monuments, schools, parks and gardens, museums, swimming pools, or squares and churches.

The opening of the festival is launched by Angelin Preljocaj and his Bolero played in the Cour Lefuel of the Louvre Museum, exceptionally open to the public, on July 11 and 12. Spectators are invited to stroll through the Denon wing of the museum to enjoy the masterpieces in this privileged setting. the Boleroexcerpt from the play Gravity by the choreographer, features twelve dancers intertwining in circles that tighten and expand endlessly.

Some artistic proposals extend over the entire duration of the festival. The exhibition theair of the giants reinvests, as seven years ago, the Parc de la Villette from July 1st to 24th. Made by French and European artists, these monumental inflatable works, in various shapes and colors, give visitors a unique walk under the sign of gigantism. This free outdoor summer project is driven by the immersive experience Pop-Air currently in the Great Hall.

Radio Daisy is another permanent installation that comes to life at the Lycée Jacques-Decour (12, avenue Trudaine, Paris 9th) the headquarters of the festival. From July 13 to 30, the artist Cécile Lena celebrates the centenary of Radio Tour Eiffel, the first station in France. Several characters are staged in a scenography composed of six mini rooms with precise decor and playing with lights and perspective. This immersive and poetic show revisits the history of radio and everyone’s intimate relationship with this medium.

Lena Paugam directs the play For a while be little, written by Laurène Marx who tells the story of a trans woman and tackles sensitive subjects: binarity, trans identity, relationship to feminism. The author defines herself as “non-binary gender fluid”. The artist Lena Paugam interprets this text in a committed monologue of one hour and forty minutes, the July 19 and 20 at the Théâtre Au fil de l’eau in Pantin. This militant work presents a testimony on the consequences, both intimate and social, of a hormonal and medical transition.

The female collective Dakh Daughters performs its show Ukrainian Fire on July 14 at the Théâtre Le Monfort (Paris 15th). A performance of songs with poetic texts, passing from traditional singing to hip-hop, video projections both realistic and phantasmagorical, all accompanied by the Orchester de Chambre de Paris. A show as an act of resistance to the Russian invasion in Ukraine told in the form of philosophical and political tales.

Strip, at the risk of liking it by the Libre Cours company and directed by Julie Benegmos and Marion Coutarel, is an immersive dive into the world of striptease and prostitution, to be discovered from July 20 to 22 at the Lycée Jacques-Decour. The show takes place in three stages: a sound immersion in the dressing rooms of a strip club, a theatrical performance of testimonies and autobiographical accounts of strippers, and an individual immersion in a private cabin using a reality headset. Virtual.

Festival Paris d’été, from July 11 to 31, 2022 in different places