Echelle Humaine 2025: the contemporary dance and performance festival at Lafayette Anticipations

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The Lafayette Anticipation Foundation is organizing the 8th edition of its "Échelle Humaine" performance festival, from September 19 to 21, 2025. A weekend of art and live performance awaits you in the center of Paris. Are you ready to be amazed?

Lovers of dance and performance art in all its forms, hurry to Lafayette Anticipations to enjoy the new edition of its festival, Échelle Humaine, from September 19 to 21, 2025. Each year, this festival is distinguished by its embrace of artistic movements, led by researchers, students and the general public, which transform and reveal the site's spaces of play, porosity and mutation. Over the course of a weekend, the Foundation becomes a crossroads for diverse and polymorphous experiences, generating new ways of living and questioning the relationships that drive us.

For this 8th edition, the Échelle Humaine festival is focusing on memories, history and stories set in motion by contemporary artists. Once again this year, artists from several countries will be offering us poetic creations charged with meaning.

The program features an eclectic mix of performances,installations and lectures. In addition to the shows that punctuate this artistic weekend, visitors enjoy meetings, exchanges, film and video screenings, as well aspractical workshops, enabling participants to experience the festival to the full.

The full program and booking details for these activities can be found on the Lafayette Anticipations website. Tickets for the festival are due to open on June 13.

The program for this new edition of the Human Scale Festival :

Friday, September 19, 2025

  • 19h-19h40
    Nina Beier - The Complete Works
    Performance

  • 20h-20h30
    Makisig Akin & Anya Cloud - We Are (nothing) Everything
    Dance performance

Saturday, September 20, 2025

  • 15h-15h40
    Nina Beier - The Complete Works
    Performance

  • 4pm-4.10pm
    Alex Baczyński-Jenkins - Federico
    Performance

  • 16hh30-17h
    Making Akin & Anya Cloud - We Are (nothing) Everything
    Dance performance

  • 17h-18h
    Public meeting

  • 18h-18h10
    Alex Baczyński-Jenkins - Federico
    Performance

  • 19h-20h15
    Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - La vertigineuse histoire d'Orthosia
    Performance in partnership with the Festival d'Automne, followed by an exchange with the audience after the performance.

Sunday, September 21, 2025

  • 11:30am-12:30pm
    Practice workshop

  • 3:00-4:15 pm
    Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - La vertigineuse histoire d'Orthosia
    Performance in partnership with Festival d'Automne

  • 4:30-4:40 pm
    Alex Baczyński-Jenkins - Federico
    Performance

  • 5pm-6pm
    Public meeting and screening

  • 18h-18h10
    Alex Baczyński-Jenkins - Federico
    Performance

  • 19h-19h40
    Nina Beier - The Complete Works
    Performance

We look forward to another fine edition this year.

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Practical information

Dates and Opening Time
From September 19, 2025 to September 21, 2025

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    Location

    9 Rue du Plâtre
    75004 Paris 4

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    Access
    Metro lines 1 and 11 "Hôtel de Ville" station, line 11 "Rambuteau" station

    Prices
    Ateliers et rencontres: Free
    Performances: €8 - €15

    Official website
    www.lafayetteanticipations.com

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    Box office opens on July 12

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