Echelle Humaine, fourth edition of the dance festival at Lafayette Anticipations

For the sixth year, the Lafayette Anticipation Foundation is organizing the Échelle Humaine dance festival from September 15 to 17, 2023. An intense weekend of polymorphous artistic interaction awaits you, with performances by Ivan Cheng, Paul Maheke, workshops by Taos Bertrand and much more. Come experience and reflect on the movements of the present through this artistic and human exploration!

Dance invites itself to Lafayette Anticipations... The establishment offers visitors a dance festival, Échelle Humaine, from September 15 to 17, 2023. For this 6th edition, the festival stands out for its embrace of artistic movements, led by researchers, students and the general public, transforming and revealing the site's spaces of play, porosity and mutation. Over the course of a weekend, the event becomes a crossroads for diverse and polymorphous experiences, generating new ways of living and questioning the relationships that drive us.

The program features an eclectic mix of performances, installations, workshops, films, conversations and even siestas. Among this year's highlights, don't miss performance artist Ivan Cheng's new piece, Clarities. This work blurs the boundaries between language, genre and the spectacular. Apocalypso, an in situ performance by Luara Raio and Acauã El Bandide Sereia, unearths buried images and reveals, layer by layer, the state of a burning earth.

Alix Boillot presents Scénographie potentielle, an archipelago of abstract and sensitive forms constantly modified by interactions and glances. Paul Maheke 's performance L'Origine de la mort explores the dialogue between dance, sound and identity, drawing on tales of roller rink and vampire myth. Choreographer Taos Bertrand offers a workshop in collaboration with students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris, whose research will be presented at the end of the festival.

The Échelle Humaine 2023 Festival at Lafayette Anticipations also includes moments of rest and discovery in an ephemeral reading room designed by Tai Shani, as well as a cycle of films, collective practices and public meetings on the Foundation's floors. A not-to-be-missed event for thinking and living together the movements of the present.

The program for this new edition of the Échelle Humaine Festival :

Alix Boillot / Potential Scenography - September 15 to 17, 2023

Continuous installation, Friday from 5pm, Saturday and Sunday from 11am. Activations: Saturday at 2:30pm, 7pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 2:30pm. Duration: 20 minutes. Free admission. Design and sculpture, Alix Boillot Activations, Julien Lacroix.

Ivan Cheng / Clarities - September 15 and 16, 2023

Friday at 7pm and Saturday at 3pm. Duration: 30 minutes. Price: between €8 and €12. Concept and performance, Ivan Cheng Cameraman, Arvo Leo Costumes, Good and Bad (Marina M. Kolushova, Victor Stuhlmann, Ossi Lehtonen).

Luara Raio / Apocalypso - September 15 and 16, 2023

Friday at 8:30pm and Saturday at 5:30pm. Running time: 50 minutes. Price: between €8 and €12. Concept and direction, Luara Raio Choreography and performance, Luara Raio and Acauã El Bandide Sereia Lighting, Lui L'Abbate Set and costume design, Luara Raio and Anat Bosak.

Paul Maheke / The Origin of Death - September 16 & 17, 2023

Saturday at 8:30pm and Sunday at 5:30pm. Estimated running time: 1 hour. Price: between €8 and €12. Created by Paul Maheke. Interpretation, Paul Maheke in collaboration with a musician.

Sati Veyrunes / Workshop - September 16, 2023

Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Duration: 1h30. Free with reservation.

Luara Raio and Acauã El Bandide Sereia / Workshop - September 17, 2023

Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Duration: 1h30. Free with reservation.

Carte blanche with Taos Bertrand and students from Beaux-Arts de Paris - September 17, 2023

Sunday, 3pm. Duration: 1h. Free admission.

Rencontres publiques - September 16 and 17, 2023

Marielle Macé and Romain Noël Saturday, 4pm. Duration: 1h15. Valentin Noujaïm and Madeleine Planeix-Crocker Sunday, 4pm. Running time: 1h15. Free with reservation.