Les Noces, Un Bolero and Le Sacre du printemps: these three works conceived around a century ago by Bronislava Nijinska and Vaslav Nijinsky are honoured in a programme that brings together brother and sister and emphasises the modernity of their choreographic vision.

Bintou Dembélé, recognised as one of the pioneers of hip-hop in France, confronts memory. In S/T/R/A/T/E/S Quartet, artists initiate states of the body from hip-hop and krump and revisit this memory, touching on African-inspired jazz, blues and polyphony music. This piece is emblematic of the choreographer’s work, as it lays the foundations for the relationship between dance, music, voice which would be spectacularly deployed in the opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes which marked her 2019 debut at the Opéra de Paris.

Trained at the École de Danse Rosella Hightower, winner of the Lausanne Prize in 1999, Pierre Pontvianne presents Kernel: commissioned by the festival, referring to this core – at the heart of that which develops, unfolds and transforms. The solo piece Janet on the Roof is a fall, an ineluctable movement, deploying an infinity of images in which each time and each space mark both the desire for a change and the sensation of an end, plunging the spectator into this interstice located between stupor and amazement.

Based on works by Pérotin, Aperghis or the Nordic vocal tradition, as well as a musical composition by Mathias Delplanque, the Compagnie Linga and the singers of the l’Académie Vocale de Suisse Romande transport us to a landscape of sound and movement in which the voice and body are heard and seen in their uniqueness.

With its ability to project itself into unprecedented phantasmagorias, Système Castafiore keeps its disproportionate imagination intact and invents a universe of its own with its language, its sounds and its costumes. In their new creation, the company delivers the hymn of an extinct species, imbued with ancient rituals – but whose future remains to be invented.

As a symbol of romanticism, the cradle of pointe and the birthplace of the tutu, La Sylphide is a monument in the history of dance. Created in 1832 by choreographer Philippe Taglioni for his daughter Marie, the ballet was an immediate success. As such, in 1836, more than half a century before Marius Petipa, the Danish August Bournonville offered a new version based on the unpublished music of Løvenskiold.

Dancing, calling out, walking backwards and playing the guitar to pay tribute to the life of Alexandra David-Neel, the first Westerner to enter Lhassa, the capital of Tibet, in 1924.
A D-N is a feu de joie – a kind of enchantment caused by dance and music. Two dancers, a circus artist and a musician, brought together to awaken the flow of our emotions.

Rocío Molina is a prodigy. She is capable of the most astonishing technical feats, with her freedom and her creativity always transporting us to new territories. By promoting an encounter between the musicians Yerai Cortés and Eduardo Trassierra, the Andalusian artist makes flamenco sweat in a succession of echoes and reflections, playing on the relationship to the Other, with her signature freedom of inspiration.