A few days ago, Isabelle Martin-Bridot, director of the National Choreographic Drama Center Wintersunveiled the 2025 edition of this winter festival as joyful as a May butterfly. A sacred fire will ignite the spectators in a few weeks, as it is obvious that this year is a thunderous year!
Traditional Indian dance by choreographer Marion Carriau who inserts I am all the gods among the five shows of HiverÔmomeship-hop, tap dancing and fado (Bate Fado on February 8 at the Grand Avignon Opera), baroque dance, ancestral rituals or decolonial dance (Comparison, Transmission, Transmission by the young choreographer Soa Ratsifandriahana on February 8 to Benedict XII), emotion of a creation (The Daisies on February 14 at the Théâtre des Doms), solos of raw emotion that the human condition goes through (On the other hand by the Italian choreographer Ambra Senatore February 7 at Hivernales), couple dances, popular ball: what could be more “modern” for contemporary dance, which hybridizes and shatters all styles?
Dance-climbing courses
On the horizon, an intimate or collective dance, intimately mixed with Music that is also multiple: drums, guitars, electronic instruments or harpsichords, (two harpsichords for the baroque Get some fresh air by Bruno Besson on February 11 at l’Autre Scène de Vedène) are present on stage in around twenty virtuoso or crudely simple shows, several of which are free entry.
Music and dance again, through exhibitions, screenings and numerous meetings with artists. Nine courses will be offered to practice dance yourself, children-parents, butö, or dance-climbing, amateurs or professionals. In fidelity to the origins, isn’t this the DNA of the Hivernales since Amélie Grand, these guest artists who combine shows and workshops?
Loyalties
We also find artists already hosted or in residence at the Hivernales: Pierre Pontvianne (Jimmy on February 13), Leslie Mannès who seeks tenderness in the chaos of the world (Under the volcano on February 15 at Hivernales-CDCN), the young Marseillaise Marina Gomes, an artist very committed to the fight against homicides linked to drug trafficking (The Medellin-Marseille Account on February 15 at the Théâtre des Halles).
Also meet with your children Brahim Bouchelaghem, historic choreographer and dancer of hip-hop and breakdance (Almaty on February 4 at the Thor auditorium). Join the incredible dancer and “de-climber” of the peaks, the Vauclusian without borders Antoine Le Ménestrel (February 14 at Maison Jean Vilar).
The great return of the icon Boris Charmatz
Just as uncontrollable and always delicious, the Franco-Austrian Christian Ubl will propose to Benedict XII The way Tings Go… This is how life and dance go in the whirlwind of days and chances.
Here are yet other reunions with the Ex Nihilo company (February 7, Espace public des Carmes) or with Massimo Fusco. The associated artist of the CDCN awaits us at the Scierie to close this jubilant fortnight on February 15 and dance with his performers in his Magnetic Ball : a fireworks display after the great moment of February 12 at the FabricA (Avignon) where Boris Charmatz, whom the Hivernales welcomed a long time ago, a promising young man, will pay tribute with Emmanuelle Huynh, in full responsibility for the adulthood, to Odile Duboc, pioneer of contemporary dance.
You must not miss Strangle timethis duo which combines transmission and total creation on a revisited Ravel bolero.
