Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses 2024 Festival
26/01 > 16/02
Proudly celebrating its tenth edition, the Pays de Danses Festival brings together exceptional opportunities for encounters between contemporary dance enthusiasts and artists representative of its evolution. Confirmed and emerging choreographers from the international scene, as well as the fertile choreographic creation of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, will offer you the grace, endurance, inventiveness and commitment of their art, which is constantly redefining its boundaries.
This year, the Pays de Danses Festival will be focusing in particular on the music performed on stage. Dance and music are as independent as each other, yet they are timeless partners who are inseparable when the magic of their fusion takes place.
The festival kicks off with high-flying urban and female dance in One Shot by the late Ousmane Sy, and closes with One Song by Miet Warlop, whose incredible punch set the Avignon audience alight in 2022.
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The most original and unique creation at the 76th edition of the Festival d’Avignon, full of passion and humour, rounds out the Pays de Danses with a bang !
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Play with me
From3 Feb on16 Feb 2024
B3 – Centre de ressources et de créativité de la Province de Liège
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A powerful corps de ballet, comprised of eight women who share the stage to joyfully confront their creative singularity !
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Through this ceremony, in which joy is tinged with melancholy and sensuality, Lara Barsacq evokes the values of contemporary eco-feminism, urging us to take care of the living from this moment on.<…
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The energy is communicative, the lighting remarkable, the virtuosity total and the joy of being together absolute.
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The Pays de Danses 2022 festival will welcome the final presentation of their projects, after a year of research and fine-tuning.
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Gabriella Iacono and Gregory Grosjean trace the history of dance throughout the evolution of mankind, in an admirable blend of painting, music, photography, footwork, hand dancing, finger dancing a…
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The Pays de Danses 2022 festival will welcome the final presentation of their projects, after a year of research and fine-tuning.
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The Pays de Danses 2022 festival will welcome the final presentation of their projects, after a year of research and fine-tuning.
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The Pays de Danses 2022 festival will welcome the final presentation of their projects, after a year of research and fine-tuning.
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Choreographer Anton Lachky presents young audiences with a sensitive, physical and carnal experience, as well as concepts and ideas that we must consider in terms of the world of today.
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PREMIÈRE BELGE
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This baroque, fanciful, iconoclastic and enjoyable fable, which takes place under the blow of a wind machine, depicts an indescribable freakshow that dances on the edge of chaos.
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This powerfully poetic and creative duet, which requires a great deal of physical intensity, introduces us to a world that lies somewhere between an imagination steeped in symbolism and a sombre re…
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Unlike the over-the-top sentimentality of some stars saying farewell, Ioannis Mandafounis takes his bow with emotion, humour and a disarming level of simplicity.
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This fiery show exudes youth, emotion and humour. Olé!
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Romain Bertet et Marie-Laure Caradec nous immergent dans l’imaginaire de l’incandescence des corps et de l’ardeur des désirs.
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This delicate and inhabited duo offers us a love song to life and, despite conventions, to the fragile beauty of aging bodies.
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RUUPTUUR calls on mythical and futuristic figures – half-divine, half-plastic female cyborg centaurs.
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As the title suggests, life courses through everything!
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Set to an electro-acoustic piece by Daniel Perez Hajdu of Cuba, the work stuns with its radical nature, its rigour, its dazzling beauty and the dancers’ excellence.
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Within an ecosystem that is recreated on a stage covered in moss and through remarkable lighting variations, Belgian choreographer Louise Vanneste experiments with the sensory listening of those wh…
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In the heart of a set designed by Chevalier-Masson, the six dancers, including Thomas Hauert himself, cohabit with Thirteen Harmonies, a work for violin and keyboard by John Cage.
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Balloon Bandit evokes the joy of imagination, the pleasure of dancing, the pain of feeling abandoned, the happiness of being united and the giddiness of movement and leaves us amazed.
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Quiet brings together a fiercely masculine quartet that showcases a complex emotional landscape in which aggression, compassion, confusion and desire create an intense dynamic.
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Organisch en gevoelig..
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This fluorescent, pop and vaporous solo, which is close to NOH theatre (a traditional Japanese theatre) escapes us and grabs us as though we were dreaming, driving us wild.
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Drawing on a variety of effects – both visual and sound effects – a string of joyous and theatrical speculations and some playful criticism, the foursome depicts humanity while savouring all of…
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It is an undefinable moment between the exposed body and stereotypical design, between farce and horror.
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Scandalous and effortless.
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Een scheppende transhumance met meeslepende muziek, een opaalachtige scenografie en een hypergevoelige dans komen samen in één ademtocht, de zoektocht naar de absolute schoonheid!
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Tribal and contagious energy in a microcosm of humanity!
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Along with the Reunionnese krumpers on the programme, Pays de Danses and the Théâtre de Liège are hosting a ‘battle’ for the first time.
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Simply radiant!
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Burning – Je ne mourus pas et pourtant nulle vie ne demeura
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Door middel van een overweldigende choreografie met circustechnieken houdt Julien Fournier hier een vlammend betoog!
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A highlight of the festival.
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An impetuous human abundance that is sensitive and dressed up!
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An act about unveiling, which redesigns the boundaries of the choreographic outlook.
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Art that pulsates and a show that is undefinable, unpredictable and unexpected!
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A reconnection with life!
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Gentle and mischievous!
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OPENING SHOW PAYS DE DANSES
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A celebration of the body and spirit, which liberate themselves from imposed models!
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For its eighth edition, brings Portugal to the stage
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EUREGIONAL OPENING PAYS DE DANSES
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A compelling and jubilant short film by the visual artist and director Clément Cogitore.
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To finish out the festival on a high note, the Moroccan Choreographer, Bouchra Ouizguen, escorts us to the gates of the desert.
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In obscurity, light is elsewhere. We can see so much when we close our eyes.
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Fré Werbrouck presents us Murmurô, part three, after Sillon and Phasme, of his Variations sur l’immobile.
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This reflection on the ways to vent within both a permissive and repressive society that addresses sensuality with an aesthetic rigor and infinite delicacy.
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A crazy adventure that is definitely worth the detour.
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This unprecedented multifaceted dialogue brains the inventiveness of each person in an enthralling eulogy of complexity.
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Accessible to everyone, Corps confiants is an introduction to “contact dance”.
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A festive ritual where the sadness of the oppressed and the sovereign wind of rebellion soar.
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Uri Ivgi and Johan Greben, a duo of internationally acclaimed Israeli-Dutch choreographers, fashion their work as an expression of the beauty and emotional weight of life and suffering.
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Here, the dance captures daily life and transposes it into poetic gesture.
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On a bright stage, children, little robots, and a dancing couple begin a slow dance of weightlessness, which progressively leads to an apotheosis of rhythm and fury.
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Two undisciplined figures of South African creation unfurl the path of an individual who aspires to his rightful place.
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The sewing workshops of the Theatre of Liège have made the incredible super distribution battalion costumes that the of this hilarious fresco is donning.
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A large, hybrid, and hypnotic Rorschach test.
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A real gem that sparkles in the heart of the sensitive individual.
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s affinity with Bach has already been evident in numerous earlier productions including ‘Partita 2’, which was previously seen at the Ruhrtriennale.
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With an infinitely graceful dance, with speech, the relay of knowledge, vector of emotion, and with a disarming simplicity, she provides us with a solo of rare beauty.
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A night at the club, but…in pointe shoes.
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In the first part of the evening, young Liège street dance recruits will demonstrate for you their dexterity.
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The themes of sharing, friendship, and groups are addressed with humour and bravery in a bubbling of energy, dance, music, and games with high-profile artists for our children! <…
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As she logically follows up on her work exploring the body in a perpetual metamorphosis, the choreographer and performer Karine Ponties digs deep into unsuitability to reality in a sincere body.
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Upon rhythmically contagious songs, the protagonists traverse the multi-identity reality of a southern Africa suffocating from a deleterious situation. She is an exquisite dancer bursting with ener…
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The “Enfant terrible” from Italian dance, Francesca Pennini revisits Maria Taglioni’s La Sylphide and Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides, two emblems o…
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The programme of the 2018 Festival of Avignon included Raimund Hoghe’s new creation that uses the past to gain a new perspective on the current turmoil that is adorned with both elegance and desp…
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The opening performance of the festival 2018
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We were particularly delighted with the closing of the Festival Pays de Danses this year. Indeed, three amazing couples of tango dancers will be reunited in Liege especially for this occasion.
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For the first part of the performance, the company D’ici P. based its work on paintings of the Belgian artist Michaël Borremans.
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Characterized by liberal capitalism, the current political trend is to govern in a state of constant threat which creates and demands more and more order through repres…
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This fourth part Corps en Révolte (revolting bodies) is a coproduction of the Ballet National de Marseille and the ICKamsterdam.
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This work results from the collaboration between the French-Malian choreographer Fatou Traoré, the double bassist Alex Gilain and the dance company from Bamako GnagamiX.
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Arrived from Argentina in the beginning of the 2000s, the dancer Ayelen Parolin created her autobiographical solo over 10 years ago, to which she gave her birth date as…
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Expiry date starts on one last breath, one last hour. An elderly man is standing quietly ready to leave this world: however, inside him, his memories are floating like the objects around him: nothi…
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Let us picture Anna Pavlova, Gene Kelly, John Travolta, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and William Forsythe reincarnate one human being to dance their legendary solos from Swan Lake, Singing in the Rai…
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Family show from 8 years.
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10 Miniballeti is an exploration based on a note book from the Italian choreographer Francesca Pennines’ childhood. In this time machine, there is room for each part of the memory but also for th…
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Family show from 8 years.
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When she was 16, Michèle Noiret attended the école Mudra, founded by Maurice Béjart, met Karlheinz Stockhausen, a pioneer of electronic music, and she has become her virtuoso.
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The young dancer and choreographer from Slovakia Anton Lachky places his second performance Side Effects at a time when stupidity is praised and the thirst for monstrosity is everywhere.
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The young choreographer from Brussels Louise Vanneste, who is now working at Charleroi Danses and is a partner at the Halles in Schaerbeek, creates meticulous choreographies building an environment…
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Family show from 8 years.
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The Compagnie KM29 includes on the one hand professional dancers and on the other hand, young marginal people coming from the suburbs in Buenos Aires who have taken contemporary dance and hip-hop l…
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During her former performances, the choreographer and dancer Nicole Mossoux has learnt to tame puppets, shadows and manipulated objects. This time, she also uses Foley equipment, which echoes her h…
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Coming from Buenos Aires and living in Berlin, the choreographer Constanza Macras explores in this performance the ars memoriae – the art of memory.
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This solo performance is based on Malika Djardi’s mother’s Islamic faith and her praying. The choreographer has used interviews with her to create a kind of “documentary” solo.
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This solo performance is based on Malika Djardi’s mother’s Islamic faith and her praying. The choreographer has used interviews with her to create a kind of “documentary” solo.
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Family show from 6 years .
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The Festival Pays de Danses is proud to welcome two solo choreographies by the choreographer and dancer from Ankara Ziya Azazi on the occasion of Europalia Turkey.
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Paul Valéry once wrote “Dance: it is a kind of drunkenness which goes from slowness to delirium, from a kind of mystical abandonment to a kind of fury.”
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The collection of the exhibition by Alain Platel Madmusée view
From28 Jan on5 Mar 2016
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Vernissage on Thursday 28.01 at 6pm
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Freely inspired by Virginia Woolf’s book The Waves, Vai e passa is a race to the sun which conveys extreme tension between the world’s frenzy and life’s fleeting character.<…
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The Batsheva Dance Company was founded by the American choreographer Martha Graham and baroness Batsheva de Rotschild, whom the company was named after, and is now based in Tel-Aviv.
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Video installation
The Festival Pays de Danses does not on…