Art Happens

Festival d’Automne à Paris 23-24 & ART HAPPENS

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After several years of being partners for the work of Trajal Harrell and Alice Ripoll, ART HAPPENS and Festival d’Automne à Paris have decided to take their collaboration to the next level and work together on the distribution of the work of international artists in Europe.

ART HAPPENS and Festival d’Automne à Paris together strengthen the European tours of international artists. For season 2023-2024, we are collaborating with Mariano Pensotti (Argentina) for the performance La Orba and Alice Ripoll (Brazil) for her new creation with Cia. Sauve. Their creations are co-produced by Festival d’Automne and will be presented during their 52nd edition.

Mariano Pensotti (Ar)

La Obra (new)

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© Mariano Pensotti

La Obra or The Play is based on the story of Simon Frank, a Polish Jew who was captured during WWII. After the war, he arrived in Coronel Sivori, a village in Argentina, where he reconstructed his house from Poland. Not to live in, but to serve as scenery for a play. He kept on expanding this scenery, reminiscent of places in Warsaw and little by little, at Frank’s request, the neighbors began to participate in it. Some as secondary actors, others as set designers or technicians. He was incorporating the inhabitants of the town in different roles of people linked to his past. The play was presented each year on his birthday and it became famous in the area. But then after almost 40 years he was arrested, because it turned out that Simon Frank died during the war in a concentration camp and the man was actually Jürgen Richter, a German soldier. For La Obra, European theater director Walid Mansour, convinced inhabitants of the Argentinian village to tell their story about their experience and how it affected their lives. They all remember the play and the experience, with which they have a conflictive relationship, in a slightly different way. Walid Mansour himself is also present on stage. He reflects with a sporadic voiceover about his own experience of being raised during a context of a civil war, in a narration that reproduces the one in the play about Simon Frank.

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© Renato Mangolin

Cia. Suave – Freedom is the central theme in Zona Franca, a dance performance weaving together contact dance, TikTok, Afro-house and passinho.
Brazilian dance group Cia Suave and Alice Ripoll wrestle with questions of freedom in a piece connecting popular dance styles from Brazil, including passinho.
This piece considers the crossroads: how much is it possible to choose your path? How much can an artistic encounter change the course of a life? And what happens when a society chooses barbarism and war, and the individual finds themselves powerless? Are we really making our personal choices.

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DatePerformanceArtistCity CountryOrganisation/Venue
05.11.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Girona (es)Temporada Alta
04.11.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Girona (es)Temporada Alta
31.10.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Vitoria-Gasteiz (es) Festival Internacional de Teatro de Vitoria
26.10.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Paris (fr)Festival d'Automne à Paris/Théâtre de la Cité Internationale
25.10.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Paris (fr)Festival d'Automne à Paris/Théâtre de la Cité Internationale
24.10.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Paris (fr)Festival d'Automne à Paris/Théâtre de la Cité Internationale
23.10.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Paris (fr)Festival d'Automne à Paris/Théâtre de la Cité Internationale
19.10.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Douai (fr)TANDEM scène national Arras-Douai
18.10.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Douai (fr)TANDEM scène national Arras-Douai
22.07.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Las Palmas (es)Teatro Pérez Galdós
21.07.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Las Palmas (es)Teatro Pérez Galdós
15.06.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Athens (gr)Athens & Epidaurus Festival
14.06.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Athens (gr)Athens & Epidaurus Festival
07.06.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Vienna (at)Wiener Festwochen
06.06.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Vienna (at)Wiener Festwochen
05.06.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Vienna (at)Wiener Festwochen
04.06.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Vienna (at)Wiener Festwochen
03.06.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Vienna (at)Wiener Festwochen
02.06.2023La ObraMariano Pensotti (ar)Vienna (at)Wiener Festwochen