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Clay and choreography meet in Tunisian tribute to women of Sejnane

Tunisian dancer and choreographer Selma Ouissi and her brother Sofiane are well known in the Arab world’s contemporary dance scene. Their work is known for its powerful visuals and precise exploration of movement. At the 2025 Avignon Festival, they presented "Laaroussa Quartet – a Free Body that Invents its Own…

Radio France Internationale · Aug 3, 2025

Avignon festival ‘a pocket of utopian resistance’, says new director

Actor, writer and director Tiago Rodrigues, from Portugal, is the first foreigner to head up the Avignon Festival, now in its 77th year. In addition to maintaining the tradition of presenting innovative performing arts projects from around the globe to the diverse public that attends the festival, he is also…

Radio France Internationale · Jul 5, 2023

Former Avignon festival boss named artistic director of Châtelet theatre

The longtime director of the Avignon theatre festival, Olivier Py, has been named the new artistic director of Paris’s historical Châtelet theatre, over the objections of Greens in the city council who would have liked to see a woman named.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 2, 2023