Carte Blanche Dream City
septembersept 20 – 28
Friday september 20
00h
Saturday september 21
00h
Sunday september 22
00h
Friday september 27
00h
Saturday september 28
00h
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.
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
Selma & Sofiane Ouissi BIRD
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.
Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Shonen company Sous Influence
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.
Visual arts: exhibitions and conversations
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.
Conference by Sophie Bessis Tunisia in the turmoil of populism
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.
Radouan Mriziga Libya
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.
Alsarah & The Nubatones
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.
Sammy Baloji Missa Utica
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.
Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King Losing it
"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?
Winter Family H2-Hébron
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
Selma & Sofiane Ouissi BIRD
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.
Visual arts: exhibitions and conversations
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.
Conference by Sophie Bessis Tunisia in the turmoil of populism
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.
Sammy Baloji Missa Utica
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.
Winter Family H2-Hébron
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.
Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué Biokhraphia
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.
Rabih Mroué Riding on a cloud
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.