100 Dessus Dessous December 10 - 21th, 2007 - 8th edition at La Villette

WE [CAN] CHANGE THE WORLD

Now in its’ 8th edition, 100 Dessus Dessous is aimed at all those who believe:
– that we can still have inventive, pointless and emancipating collective adventures, without being retrograde hippies,
– that appearing on a TV set at peak hour to give one’s opinion cannot be taken as a sure sign of success,
– that we can talk about theatre without quoting authors every second sentence,
– that ending your sentences with the word "motherfucker" doesn’t make you a contemporary poet,
– that the world is not just a Western world and that there are lots of people in other places too,
– that not everything can be explained or measured, which leaves a lot of play room for all types of interpretations, even the most absurd,
– that there are still some healthy utopias remaining, and not just futile angers.

In brief, an event dedicated to all of you who just want to take a little break, and let yourselves go to all sorts of things surprising, excessive, insignificant and a bit derisory. A snapshot of the current state of the world. Frédéric Mazelly

Soirée-parcours n°1
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Monday, December 10th | Tuesday, December 11th
Gob Squad / Super Night Shot
Vincent Dupont / Incantus

Soirée-parcours n°2
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Wednesday, December 12th | Thursday, December 13th
Anne Hirth / Wait here for further instructions
Yves-Noël Genod / Hamlet
Miss Marion / Dressing Room

Soirée-parcours n°3
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Friday, December 14th | Saturday, December 15th
andcompany&Co. / little red (play) :"herstory"
Berlin / Bonanza

Soirée-parcours n°4
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Monday, December 17th | Tuesday, December 18th
Carole Perdereau / Micro Music
Ivana Müller / While We Were Holding It Together
Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido / Still difficult duet

Soirée-parcours n°5
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Wednesday, December 19th | Thursday, December 20th
Alain Michard / CouaC
Edit Kaldor / Point Blank
Clémence Coconnier / Vertige

Soirée-parcours n°6
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Friday, December 21th
Soirée spéciale Essais / Ecole supérieure du Centre national de danse contemporaine Angers/Direction Emmanuelle Huynh

Festival Villette 100 Dessus Dessous
http://www.100dd.fr

Etablissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette
www.villette.com
211 avenue Jean Jaurès
75019 Paris

Evennings start at pm 7:00 at La Maison de la Villette except on December 16th (off).
Free schuttles buses will take people from the starting point to the performance venues.
Accessibility : Maison de la Villette : M° Porte de Pantin (line 5) or Porte de la Villette (line 7).

Reservation : ++ 33 (0)1 40 03 75 75
Press and Trade : ++ 33 (0)1 40 03 78 49 or s.tarillon@villette.com

Box office Parc de la Villette :
Rates : 10 € "soirée-parcours" ticket

Folie Information (exit Porte de Pantin) :
every days from am 11:00 to pm 6:30

Maison de la Villette : from December 10th to 21th (except sunday 16th) from pm 6:30
on line www.villette.com

Yin et yang The stars of the Beijin Circus until January 13th at the Phénix Circus

A hell of a man, Alain Pacherie ! Passionnate about circus, he took over the torch of the Beijing Circus and the Moscow Circus without compromising : under these designations, Fernand Lombroso, a genius producer, presented from the 1960's to the 1990's, the best of the USSR and China circus acts thanks the to trusted relations he forged with the Cultural Affairs of the two countries.

In turn, Alain Pacherie paces the Far East in search of the exceptional and presents it under his Phoenix Circus marquee, lawn of Reuilly. You need to make some adjustements, some variations, and then sign a staging in synch with our time : director of the "Tomorrow's worldwide Circus Festival" (Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain), Alain Pacherie is indeed a man who do not wants the circus bounded to the vulgarity of sparkling g-strings, dopey collage numbers and out of date drumming.

For this latest vintage of The stars of the Beijin Circus, he add to the pure circus artists crew, a troupe of eight Shaolin monks. It still needs to perform the marriage of Chinese-circus artistry of acrobatics and the Shaolin monks, subject to a martial arts discipline and mysterious concentration allowing them to harden their bodies as stone, therefore insensitive to the most cutting blades and the hardest marbles they break in a whim. Le spectacle en sort contrasté, avec d’un côté la virilité des moines et de l’autre la grâce et l’adresse des acrobates. The show cpomes out contrasted with in one hand some manly monks and the other grace and agile acrobats.

The challenge of bringing together these two disciplines is exciting. The show, presented with the silhouette of the Imperial City palace in the background, and costumes reminiscent of the elegance of the eternal China, contains beautiful circus acts: body pagodas covering lit chandeliers and umbrella, an especially incredible performance of Icarian, juggling with human bodies. A set of new and unique numbers to the delight thrill and aestheticism seekers.

The stars of the Beijin Circus
until January 13th, 2008

Cirque Phénix
www.cirquephenix.com
Pelouse de Reuilly
75012 Paris

Duration : 2 heures

Location : 0825 039 040
Fees : de 20 à 53 €