Carte Blanche Dream City

Carte Blanche Dream City
La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 20 – 28
La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers

Friday september 20

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Saturday september 21

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Sunday september 22

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Friday september 27

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Saturday september 28

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With Radouan Mriziga, Selma et Sofiane Ouissi, Sammy Baloji, Manthia Diawara, Samaa Wakim, Samar Haddad King, Winter Family, Nil Yalter, Alsarah & the Nubatones, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Michael Rakowitz, Jumana Manna, Sille Storihle, Sophie Bessis.

With the support of Wevioo and of Focus

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers and The Festival d’Automne à Paris are presenting this Carte Blanche in co-production.

With the support of

The multi-disciplinary Tunisian festival Dream City is moving to Aubervilliers at the joint invitation of the Festival d'Automne and La Commune, with the shared desire to make this area rustle, resonate and dream through a dozen creations by international performing and visual artists. 

An artistic crossroads between the Arab world, Africa and Europe, Dream City examines and sings about a world in motion, attentive to the themes of emancipation, migration and human rights. Created in 2007 in the medina of Tunis, the Dream City festival brings together contextual creations with a direct link to local urban realities and the people who live there. The project was initiated by choreographers Selma Ouissi and Sofiane Ouissi, joined by Jan Goossens, who use artistic creation to design a new urban space. In Aubervilliers, the artistic proposals take over places all over the city, right up to the gates of Paris, to draw a living map of sensibilities and thoughts in action. The programme for this city of dreams, or this dream of a city, includes theatre, dance, performances, music, encounters, visual arts, a sound trail, choreographed clubbin' and a DJ set, all stages of a sensitive journey to be put together over two long weekends.

The Festival d’Automne, La Commune - Centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers and the Dream City festival.

 

20-28 September

Visual arts

Exile Is A Hard Job, Nil YalterThe Goodness Regime, Jumana Manna & Sille StorihleI’m good at love, I’m good at hate, it’s in between I freeze, Michael Rakowitz & Robert Chase HeishmanAngela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom, Manthia DiawaraEdouard Glissant: One World in Relation, Manthia DiawaraNegritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor, Manthia Diawara

Weekend of 20-22 September

Friday 20th

5.30pm — Conversation with Michael Rakowitz in English, without translation7pm — BIRD, Sofiane and Selma Ouissi10pm — Sous Influence, Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, compagnie Shonen

Samedi 21

3.30 pm — Talk by Sophie Bessis6pm — BIRD, Sofiane and Selma Ouissi8pm — Libya, Radouan Mriziga9.30pm — Alsarah & the Nubatones

Dimanche 22

12h — Libya, Radouan Mriziga15h — BIRD, Sofiane et Selma Ouissi

Weekend of 27-28 September

Vendredi 27

19h — Missa Utica, Sammy Baloji20h30 — Losing it, Samaa Wakim, Samar Haddad King22h — H2-Hébron, Winter Family

Samedi 28

CANCELED I 14h — Conversation avec Manthia Diawara16h — H2-Hébron, Winter Family18h — Missa Utica, Sammy Baloji20h — Losing it, Samaa Wakim, Samar Haddad King22h — Dj Benjemy

See also

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 20 – 22

Selma & Sofiane Ouissi
BIRD

Carte Blanche Dream CityDance
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Starting with ordinary everyday gestures such as feeding, living together and getting around, Sofiane Ouissi explores our relationship with birds. Passionate about encounters and the journeys they generate, this time he delves into the relationship with another species.

La Station — Gare des Mines
septembersept 20

Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Shonen company
Sous Influence

Carte Blanche Dream CityPerformance

First staged in Marseille on the roof terrace of La Friche Belle de mai, and then at Nuit Blanche 2018, Sous Influence is a techno party for all ages and all bodies in a dance epidemic. This party situation invites the audience to dance under the influence of a hundred or so amateur accomplices and professional dancers, bathed in the electronic music of Tunisian live-act composer Pan-J.

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 21 – 28

Visual arts: exhibitions and conversations

Carte Blanche Dream CityVisual arts
Free

Artists Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Manthia Diawara, Michael Rakowitz & Robert Chase Heishmans will be in La Commune from 20 to 28 September to present five works and invite you to take part in two conversations.
The works of Nil Yalter will be on display in the public space of Aubervilliers.

 

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 21

Conference by Sophie Bessis
Tunisia in the turmoil of populism

Carte Blanche Dream CityConference
Free

After a decade of chaotic but richly experienced democratic apprenticeship, Tunisia found itself plunged into a new cycle of its post-colonial history from 2021 onwards. From that date onwards, Kaïs Saïed, who was democratically elected in 2019, assumed all the powers, transforming a fledgling democracy into an autocracy.

Le Point Fort d'Aubervilliers
septembersept 21 – 22

Radouan Mriziga
Libya

Carte Blanche Dream CityDance
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Libya, the third piece by Moroccan choreographer Radouan Mriziga to be performed at this year's Festival d'Automne, explores the notion of 'knowing', in which eight dancers and a series of lines on the floor seem to trace the trajectories of a constellation of movements that we are about to observe.

Le Point Fort d'Aubervilliers
septembersept 21

Alsarah & The Nubatones

Carte Blanche Dream CityConcert
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The Dream City Carte Blanche will be marked by a concert given by the group Alsarah & the Nubatones, born out of discussions between Alsarah and Rami El Aasser about Nubian songs, migration and cultural exchanges between Sudan and Egypt.

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 27 – 28

Sammy Baloji
Missa Utica

Carte Blanche Dream CityMusic
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The first black bishop appointed by the Catholic Church should have settled in Utica, Tunisia, but never did. His story is the starting point for Sammy Baloji's work.

CRR 93 – Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional d'Aubervilliers-La Courneuve
septembersept 27 – 28

Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King
Losing it

Carte Blanche Dream CityDance
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"Can you still hear the bombs? Because I can." What happens when you grow up in a war zone? When you breathe in and physically feel the political conflict every day? How do you cope as a child in such an environment?

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 27 – 28

Winter Family
H2-Hébron

Carte Blanche Dream CityTheatre

Winter Family is an experimental music and documentary theatre duo founded by Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and French musician Xavier Klaine. They play minimal, obsessive, abrasive and political music. They created H2 Hebron, their 3rd show in 2018, a documentary piece in which the transcription of nearly 500 pages of testimonies, their translation, selection and reappropriation by Winter Family are the central element and the main dramaturgical material of the show.

In the same place

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 20 – 22

Selma & Sofiane Ouissi
BIRD

Carte Blanche Dream CityDance
Buy tickets

Starting with ordinary everyday gestures such as feeding, living together and getting around, Sofiane Ouissi explores our relationship with birds. Passionate about encounters and the journeys they generate, this time he delves into the relationship with another species.

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 21 – 28

Visual arts: exhibitions and conversations

Carte Blanche Dream CityVisual arts
Free

Artists Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Manthia Diawara, Michael Rakowitz & Robert Chase Heishmans will be in La Commune from 20 to 28 September to present five works and invite you to take part in two conversations.
The works of Nil Yalter will be on display in the public space of Aubervilliers.

 

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 21

Conference by Sophie Bessis
Tunisia in the turmoil of populism

Carte Blanche Dream CityConference
Free

After a decade of chaotic but richly experienced democratic apprenticeship, Tunisia found itself plunged into a new cycle of its post-colonial history from 2021 onwards. From that date onwards, Kaïs Saïed, who was democratically elected in 2019, assumed all the powers, transforming a fledgling democracy into an autocracy.

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 27 – 28

Sammy Baloji
Missa Utica

Carte Blanche Dream CityMusic
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The first black bishop appointed by the Catholic Church should have settled in Utica, Tunisia, but never did. His story is the starting point for Sammy Baloji's work.

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 27 – 28

Winter Family
H2-Hébron

Carte Blanche Dream CityTheatre

Winter Family is an experimental music and documentary theatre duo founded by Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and French musician Xavier Klaine. They play minimal, obsessive, abrasive and political music. They created H2 Hebron, their 3rd show in 2018, a documentary piece in which the transcription of nearly 500 pages of testimonies, their translation, selection and reappropriation by Winter Family are the central element and the main dramaturgical material of the show.

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
novembernov 13 – 16

Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué
Biokhraphia

Theatre Portrait
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These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia et Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
novembernov 13 – 16

Rabih Mroué
Riding on a cloud

Theatre Portrait
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These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia and Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.