THE MORNING LIST
On Saturday, June 1, the major annual artistic event spans from Paris to Rouen with an official program featuring 12 projects by artists from the French overseas departments and territories. There are also several unofficial events, including an opera in a hairdressing salon, an artistic hike and a sleep-streaming performance. Here's a selection:
In the official program
This is an immersive experience from one night to another: Artist Laura Henno's film Koropa will be screened outdoors in the Parc de Belleville, in Paris, inviting spectators to take part in a tense and illegal nocturnal crossing between the Comoros and Mayotte, seen through the anxious gaze of Patron, a young boy and apprentice smuggler. Immersed in the film's moral dilemma, which straddles fiction and documentary, viewers will be prompted to reflect on maritime law in the French archipelago of the Indian Ocean, with the Eiffel Tower as a beacon and a panoramic view of the capital.
10 pm to 2 am, Parc de Belleville (entrance Rue Julien-Lacroix and Rue Piat), Paris 20th.
Born in Guadeloupe and passing away in Paris in the 18th century, Joseph Bologne de Saint-George, known as the "Chevalier de Saint-George," was a musician, composer and fencer under the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI. Saint-George en Mouvement(s): Chevalier Virtuose ("Saint-George in Movement(s): Chevalier Virtuoso") will interweave Baroque music, contemporary dance and fencing in a three-part performance orchestrated by violinist Romuald Grimbert-Barré and choreographer Johana Malédon. It revisits the unique journey of a man who was born a slave, became free and educated and whose charm captivated Paris in the Age of Enlightenment.
Four 35-minute performances (7:30 pm, 8:30 pm, 9:40 pm and 10:45 pm) at Carreau du Temple, 4 Rue Eugène-Spuller, Paris 3rd.
With a title inspired by a Creole phrase that conveys a party atmosphere and communal joy, Wélélé !!!, Guadeloupe-born Kenny Dunkan will merge the emancipatory essence of the carnival with skateboarding's libertarian energy in a large-scale wandering performance. Dozens of skateboarders will transform into human beatboxes, each emitting the nocturnal call of a different creature to create a vast mobile sound system. Behind this wave of skateboarders, two aspects will be emphasized: the now-multicultural nature of this urban sport, long associated with white Californian youth, and the reminder that skateboarding is now an Olympic sport.
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