A project by the Festival d'Avignon, the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès and Mathilde Monnier
How to pass on the performing arts? That’s the question asked by this programme, conceived in 2024 as an agora with the Hermès Foundation and Mathilde Monnier. Transmission Impossible brings together fifty young French and international artists—most of them recipients of a Hermès Foundation grant—to experience the Festival d’Avignon as a laboratory of reflection thanks to shows, rehearsals, and encounters. Accompanied by author and choreographer Cristina Morales, filmmaker Patric Chiha, and playwright Stéphane Bouquet, Mathilde Monnier invites those young artists to transform fluid thought into performances during sessions open to the public. Aimed at opening new artistic horizons, Transmission impossible calls on a new multidisciplinary team every year to provide ever more perspectives and research angles.
Transmission Impossible es un proyecto de inmersión, de intercambio y de investigación dentro del Festival d’Avignon para 50 artistas franceses e internacionales de las artes vivas. Los participantes se sumergirán en el Festival y se impregnarán de una edición-laboratorio para inventar el mañana.
Interview with Olivier Fournier, Mathilde Monnier and Tiago Rodrigues
Distribution
Artistic coordination and educational support Mathilde Monnier (choreographer)
In collaboration with Stéphane Bouquet (author and playwright), Patric Chiha (filmmaker), Cristina Morales (author and choreographer)
With artists receiving Artistes dans la Cité scholarships from the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès: Yassim Aït Abdelmalek, Jessim Belfar, Arthur Berthault, Matthieu Calvié, Malick Cissé, Robin Condamin, Luciana Costa-Piallat, Jade Crespy, Stéphane Delile, Nina Depays, Elena Dombrowski, Marina Escobar, Elsa Fafin, Ilonah Fagotin, Adam Fontaine, Barbara Ford, Pomme François-Ferron, Fantine Gelu, Ametonyo Gomes Da Silva, Paul Grassin, Loan Hermant, Ramo Jalilyan, Tristan Leroy, Vladimir Leroy, Woodina Louisa, Marie Mangin, Chloé Monteiro, Michael Nana, Ephraïm Nanikunzola, Apolline Peccarisi, Louise Phelipon, Lucas Resende Soares, Hugo Serre, Ehsan Shayanfard, Clara Thibault, Julia Touam, Alina Tshkovrebiva, Zaïna Yalioua
and thirteen young international artists: Jessica Allemann, Jorge Ernesto Barrón, Mélanie Ferreira, Andréa Givanovitch, In Hwa Jin, Chou Kuan-Jou, Laura Kutkaitė, Zoé Lakhnati, Marco Mendonça, Aristeo Mora de Anda, Eunsil Noh, Eglė Švedkauskaitė, Hung Wei-Yao
With the participation of artists, designers and technicians from the 78th edition of the Festival d'Avignon.
This edition of Transmission Impossible is dedicated to the memory of Titouan Maire.
Production
Production Festival d'Avignon, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès
Coproduction NTCH Taiwan National Theatre, Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa), Lithuanian Theatre Information Centre, Association MM
With the support of the French Embassy in Bolivia, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Mexico), Lithuanian Culture Institute
In partnership with La Garance Scène nationale de Cavaillon
Aknowledgements La Criée – Théâtre national de Marseille, Les Tréteaux de France Centre dramatique national