CANCELED - "The sky, the night, the stone…” – La Semaine d'Art 1947

Led by Antoine de Baecque, the official historian of the Festival d’Avignon, researchers and artists will look back on the surprising and exceptional history of how, in the immediate aftermath of the war, in a mid-sized town and alongside a great contemporary art exhibition in the Palais des Papes, the organisation by Jean Vilar of an Art week, with its seven performances, laid the foundation for what would become the greatest theatre festival in the world.

With Antoine de Baecque (historian, co-author of Histoire du Festival d'Avignon - Gallimard 2016), Cécile Falcon (theatre history professor at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, actress, dorectpr), Olivia Grandville (dancer, choreographer, author of the show Une semaine d'art en Avignon with Léone Nogarède and Catherine Legrand), Emmanuelle Loyer (historian, contemporary history professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, co-author of Histoire du Festival d'Avignon - Gallimard 2016), Léone Nogarède (actress, member of Jean Vilar’s troupe starting in 1947, art critic), Pierre Provoyeur (art historian, former head curator of the Musée Calvet), Olivier Py