The Journées du Patrimoine, that fabulous cultural weekend, is back in 2024! On September 21 and 22, historic sites all over France will be opening their doors to the public. It's an opportunity to discover hidden treasures, explore exceptional sites and experience history through guided tours, workshops and events for all. An exceptional event not to be missed!
The town of Houilles, located in the Yvelines department, has a rich history that will captivate you. Known as far back as Roman times, Houilles has survived the centuries by preserving evidence of its history. The 13th-centuryChurch of Saint-Nicolas and the ancient stone quarries that helped build Paris are just some of the jewels in the crown of this charming commune's heritage.
An opportunity to explore a city with a distinct identity, at the crossroads of history and modernity. This year's events promise to immerse you in a cultural Houilles, in all its forms. It's an invitation to wonder and discover, for curious people of all ages. Houilles awaits you for a memorable journey back in time! Want to come along for the Heritage Days?
Cour de l'école Toussaint Guesdes
Côte à Côte: Free hugs is a duo with a "non-genre" bias, combining contemporary dance, hip hop, circus and physical theater.
Aimed at all audiences, and adapted for young audiences, it is a work of contact, of embracing support, where the invisible links that unite us come to life and materialize to raise questions.
What is the impact of touch on the body and emotions? It plays a vital role at physiological, psychological and emotional levels. What is consent and what is oppression?
In this sometimes absurd story of cuddling, combining tenderness and physicality, the choreographic material is impregnated with this everyday gesture, putting it on stage and exploring all its possibilities. It's a corps à corps where hearts connect side by side for a heart to heart. The energy of a cuddle becomes one of the greatest aids in preventing the two performers from falling or sinking, and provides them with the strength they need to get back on their feet. The bodies embrace, fall, rise, fall again and embrace again, highlighting the fragility that exists when we are deprived of touch. The urgency to live appears. The urgency of needing the other, the dependence on touch. It takes the form of running, jumping, pulling, pushing: the physicality of the bodies is consumed to the point of exhaustion.
In a mixture of surrealist images, where the theatricality of the bodies becomes at times absurd, at times sensitive, even acrobatic, without the other, without the strength to be together, nothing can stand upright anymore, and it's the fall: the collapse of the whole story.
Cast: Choreography: Sandra Geco / Performers: Sandra Geco and Edouard Gameiro
Production: &co compagnie
Coproductions: Festival Impulsion, Théâtre de Roanne, Département de la Loire
Supporters and hosts: CCN de Roubaix-Ballet du Nord, MAC de Créteil, Carreau du Temple, CND-Pantin, L'entre-deux scène de Lésigny,
LeLabo, Château de Monthelon
https://www.andcocompagnie.com/
https://vimeo.com/862899550
A man is searching for something long lost or forgotten.
What if, in order to develop fully, we had to go back in time? At an age when everything is easier, free from personal judgment?
This show reveals the journey from childhood to adulthood, the evolution of our perception of the World and our construction in relation to others.
The project took shape at the Arc En Cirque school in Chambéry, with the main aim of bringing Parkour - the physical activity of moving efficiently using one's own motor skills - to life in a variety of creative environments. The structure on which Nicolas Baurens evolves was built to initiate the movement techniques specific to this discipline, with steel bars similar to classic scaffolding structures.
The construction of the structure was thought out with a practical aim in mind, with dimensions designed according to the size of the artist, with a view to exploiting every part of the cube. As a result, the cube offers a wealth of movement possibilities, particularly in its multi-disciplinary nature. We find acrobatics on the floor, inside and outside the cube, balancing and more gymnastic movements on the top bars, and Chinese mat on the vertical bars. All these disciplines are supported by a soundtrack that accompanies the energy and the state of the body in the different parts of the show.
The show, which lasts 20 min, is aimed at all audiences, thanks in particular to the spectacular nature of the disciplines of parkour and acrobatics, and the universality of the theme, which deals with the part of childhood in each of us.
Cast: Choreography and acting: Nicolas Baurens
Compagnie Bakhus is supported by the City of Cannes, the Department of 06 and the PACA Region
https://compagniebakhus.fr/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap-6Rqi2bgA&t=5s
Marianne Autain is a guide and lecturer with a diploma from the École du Louvre, and has been teaching art history for many years. As part of the European Heritage Days, Marianne Autain will be offering 2 guided tours of the town of Houilles on the theme of Houilles' heritage from the 18th to the 21st century.
Departure in front of the Town Hall.
As part of the European Heritage Days, the conservatory's teachers will be concocting a concert combining dance and music in the bucolic setting of the Maison Schoelcher gardens.
The concert will feature flute duets by European composers in a variety of musical aesthetics, including:
German Baroque with G.P. Telemann,
Viennese Classical with L. v. Beethoven or W.A. Mozart,
Czech Romanticism with Anton Terschak or Danish Romanticism with Niels Peter Jensen,
French Modern with Gabriel Fauré,
Italian Contemporary with G. Petrassi,
British Jazz with Kate Cuzner.
Acta Fabula is an original artistic company with 20 years' experience in the worlds of art, culture and events. Recognized as a specialist in tailor-made writing, the association will be organizing a themed tour of the Maison Schoelcher and its illustrious occupant.
https://www.actafabulanews.com/
Conducted by Les Ateliers Artistiques et Créatifs de l'image, this workshop will introduce participants to the cyanotype process, a centuries-old technique and fascinating handmade monochrome printing process.
Salle Cassin
Plan B is a story about words. Or rather, an adventure in letters. Packed with twists and turns, puns and semantic twists and turns, you'll be at a loss for words!
A desk. A book. Some letters. While these are happily humming in the garden, a drama is about to unfold, disrupting the tranquility of this spring Tuesday. Who could have an interest in orchestrating this terrible murder? Where could he be hiding? In a nutshell, Plan B is a story without words or sweet nothings, full of unspoken words, which tells the tale of a murderer's hellish pursuit by a detective who doesn't seem to have said his last word... Abuse of language, lexical attacks, obscure spoonerisms, unforgivable phrasings, Plan B is a veritable linguistic hostage-taking!
Warning, all this is to be taken strictly literally.
Cast: Director: Camille Geoffrion - Acting, puppetry: Camille Geoffrion, Anna Luneau, Florian Miazga - Costumes: Anna Luneau - Advice on foam construction: Pasc ale Blaison - Lighting design: Corentin Praud - Outside view: Cécile Givernet, Vincent Munschoir
Dates and Opening Time
From September 21, 2024 to September 22, 2024
Location
Houilles
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78800 Houilles
Access
RER A "Houilles - Carrière-sur-Seine" station
Prices
Free
Official website
www.ville-houilles.fr
