Boris Charmatz
There are artists whose presence at the Festival d’Avignon takes on a particular significance, resonating with the programme so much that it infuses the spirit of an edition. Starting from 2024, we have decided to manifest this artistic complicity that was already present, and which reinvents itself differently every year. In Avignon, every sentence, every gesture is a dialogue with our history. Boris Charmatz is among those artists who have left their mark on the recent history of the Festival. As a French choreographer and the new artistic director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, his position at this crossroads seems symbolic of the challenges facing Europe today: in a space where diversity and the circulation and blending of artistic languages must be maintained, how can one embrace one’s heritage while continuing to create?
As a associate artist, Boris Charmatz is present with the public from the very first to the very last minute of the Festival, to develop a multi-faceted project including performances, a choreographic workshop, meetings and screenings.
Boris Charmatz events during the Festival
2 shows, 1 workshop
CERCLES, an open-air workshop
June 29, 30 and July 1, 6-8pm
Free entry
Liberté Cathédrale
July 5, 6, 8 and 9 at 9:30pm
Forever, (Immersion in Pina Bausch's Café Müller)
July 14, 15, 17, 18, 20 and 21 from 1pm to 8pm
Boris Charmatz's choice at Territoires cinématographiques
Ciné-Marathon Pina Bausch
July 16, 10 a.m.-11.30 p.m.
In partnership with Tanztheater Wuppertal and the Pina Bausch Foundation, Utopia cinemas program films by and about the choreographer, with many previously unseen rehearsal archives.
A meeting at the Café des idées
A friendly coffee with Boris Charmatz
July 7, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Boris Charmatz invites architect Elizabeth Diller and philosophers Emma Bigé and Emanuele Coccia for a conversation exploring the connections between art, philosophy and architecture.