Youssoupha, Gringe, Kery James: 6Mic Promotes the rap scene…
6Mic confirms its desire to promote the rap scene, which was lacking in Aix. Kick-off with Youssoupha, on January 11, for his new album Amour supreme with its message texts tinged with gospel, soul and West African sounds. Gringe, Orelsan’s ex-sidekick, continues on January 30 with his introspective and intense rap. Kery James is proposing… a play, Àhuis clos, on February 25 and 26. A tense and muscular face-to-face between the little brother of a victim of police violence and a judge taken hostage, which turns into a meeting and a social debate.
Great New Year’s concert with Jérémie Rhorer
and a quartet around Renaud Capuçon at the GTP
The GTP will celebrate the new year this January 10 with the Cercle de l’harmonie, the ensemble in residence of the great lyrical conductor Jérémie Rhorer. On the program: a fine assortment of waltzes, polkas and other gallops by Johann Strauss Jr., preceded by the most sparkling pieces of the Second Empire (Bizet, Offenbach, Gounod and Delibes). On February 28, we will find the virtuoso violinist Renaud Capuçon surrounded by a trio of young soloists, who will tackle the lively single movement of Mahler’s Piano Quartet, the generous Quartet by Gabriel Fauré and the more ambitious Quartet by Richard Strauss. Another highlight, in a completely different register: “Louise”, signed by the Swiss Martin Zimmermann, on January 30 and 31. Four mischievous and unbridled circus performers upset the patriarchal order in a series of crazy and confusing acts.
Indochine, Jean-Louis Aubert and Julien Doré at the Arena
After the highly anticipated four dates (from January 28 to February 1, sold out) marking the first of Indochina’s great national comeback, the Arena will welcome other French stars. First Jean-Louis Aubert on February 14 (there are a few places left), for his Pafinitour where the former singer of Telephone revisits his iconic titles but also more little-known treasures. He will also return there on November 15. Finally after coming there in February 2022, Julien Doré returns to the Arena for his return to the stage, on March 1, also with the first national date of his new Pestacle, his new 37-date tour.
The comeback of François Cluzet on the stage…
After 20 years away from the theaters, the famous actor will play, from January 7 to 18 at the Jeu de Paume, Another Divine Day, adapted especially for him from the Denis Michelis novel by Emmanuel Noblet. An incisive and disturbing monologue, bordering on madness, where a psychologist with radical ideas finds himself interned in a psychiatric hospital…
… followed by that of Sophie Marceau
Alongside François Berléand, she returns to the theater after a 12-year absence, again at the Jeu de Paume, on January 23, 24 and 25, in La note. This will be only his fourth play in his 40-year career. This dramatic comedy, written and directed by Audrey Schebat, follows, for one night, a couple in crisis (she, a famous pianist and he, a psychoanalyst) who take stock of their lives and their relationship. A night to reinvent their destiny.
… as well as pop with La Grande Sophie, Emma Peters, or Pierre Garnier
This start of the year at 6Mic also gives a lot of space to pop and contemporary French song, with some pretty names. First of all, La Grande Sophie, who presents her new creation exclusively in Les Aix and at the end of her residency on January 17, mixing song and theater in a single, unique stage performance. We will then find a jumble of electro-rock from Yodelice on January 24, rising star Emma Peters on the 25th for her new album Tout de suite, musical phenomenon of the year and winner of the Star Academy Pierre Garnier, on the 29th. , in his very first solo tour, or the silky melodies of the very talented Malik Djoudi, on February 6.
Between voyeurism and contemplation at the Black Pavilion
On January 17 and 18, the Swiss duo Delgado Fuchs offers Topeep Secret Box, a glam act based on the principle of the “peep show”, where each spectator is invited to examine the show alone through the porthole of a cabin… on the same two evenings, the piece Mire by Jasmine Morand invites us to contemplate twelve completely naked dancers, through the slits of a circular structure, in fascinating kaleidoscopic undulations… note that Mythologies (2022) by Angelin Preljocaj, an exploration of founding myths with music by ex-Daft Punk Thomas Bangalter, will be replayed at GTP on January 23, 24 and 25. Oona Doherty, the Irish choreographer associated with this season, will offer on March 1st four tender and fierce paintings on life in Belfast.
AND ALSO…
Mohamed El Khatib, the playwright who marked the Biennale, returns to his favorite (and free) theater of Jas de Bouffan on January 9 and 10 for The Secret Life of Old People. A critically acclaimed play that explores the sexuality of elders in a documentary vein. In Women in Troy, as told by our mothers, the Dutch collective Dood Paard revisits, based on a text by Tiago Rodrigues, the history of the siege of Troy from the point of view of women, on January 14 and 15. Heka, from the London troupe Gandini Juggling, reinterprets the magical world of Houdini on January 20 and 21 by twisting its codes for young and old. Black Lights, from Mathilde Monnier’s company, promises a powerful dance show on February 6 and 7 based on ten texts by women recounting the violence committed against them and its impact on the body and mind…
The university theater, whose programming we will soon discuss, is attacking the year with a promising play, The Heavyweight Aire, on January 16 and 17. Created from a text by Lachlan Philpott by the young company La criatura, whose talent we have already been able to appreciate, it explores the quest for identity and the awakening to sexuality of adolescents in a world shaped by social networks, pornography, injunctions and contemporary taboos.
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