Paris summer unrolls its artistic program in unusual places

The festival offers shows and performances until July 31 in around twenty places in the capital and the Paris region.

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of a jet, with barely a few rumbles of ears, we are at 56 e floor. A few steps later, we are in the sky of Paris. With its 90 square meters open at 360 degrees, the Tour Montparnasse Tour has everything of a flying saucer adorned to take off. Simply bordered by transparent rastors that do not stop, the place offers a beautiful panoramic as a dream decor, which the weather transforms at leisure. Sun, and the horizon, half-urban, half-celestial, absorbs you until dizziness. Clouds, and we hover on a layer of cotton far from the floor of cows.

This unique sublime set is one of the exceptional sites on the poster of the Paris Festival in the summer, which takes place in around twenty places until July 31. On July 16, it will welcome the choreographic performance of the Urban Dance Intervention Group (Guid), the Preljocaj Ballet. Since 1998, this team of six dancers have arisen in the most varied contexts, from school courses to market places. On the program, a series of extracts from shows signed Preljocaj between 1988 and 2022. “When I made the first location, in January, on the tower, I was excited, enthuses Guillaume Siard, artistic manager of the Guid . This is the first time that we are going to dance so high. We will have to make sure to keep the land side of Angelin’s dance while being aerial, but without going into levitation, because the terrace calls towards the sky. ” For this morning moment, the troop will arrive around 7:30 a.m. to warm up. Before immersing yourself, in sneakers and all dressed in the circle of spectators. “This will bring out the richness of Angelin’s writing, visible on all sides”, continues Guillaume Siard.

give a vacation look to the capital

This meeting in situ is part of the long list of unusual or emblematic scenes invested by Paris in summer, created in 1990. The identity of this event was built, in particular, on the idea of Give a vacation look to the capital for those who stay there while cultivating art outdoors. Among the remarkable addresses, the Honor of the Invalides, the Sacred Heart, the Pailleron swimming pool, the Picasso museum, the yellow mill, in Crécy-la-Chapelle (Seine-et-Marne) … “to find incredible spaces Part of our work and we love it, point Laurence de Magalhaes and Stéphane Ricordel, co -directors since 2016. We like shows to be moved to other contexts than those of rooms. “And attract, by free performance, from New spectators.

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