The Journées du Patrimoine 2024 take place on September 21 and 22, following an eventful summer with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. As every year, this event offers a unique opportunity to discover, free of charge, many historic, cultural and artistic venues that are usually closed to the public or not easily accessible, such as Studio Le Regard des Cygne .
In France, thousands of monuments, museums, churches and other heritage sites will be opening their doors for guided tours, workshops and events. In Paris, in the 20th arrondissement, the Studio Le Regard du Cygne opens its doors to the public for a new show on the evening of Saturday September 21st, followed by a guided tour of the Studio on Sunday morning, and a tribute to choreographer Jacqueline Challet-Haas in the afternoon.
Journées du Patrimoine 2024: unusual and original outings in Paris and the Île-de-France region
Think you know everything about Paris? Well, we can still surprise you! On Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22, 2024, you're in for a real treat at the Journées du Patrimoine! We're sharing our picks for the 41st Journées du Patrimoine, in Paris and Île-de-France. [Read more]
Studio Le Regard du Cygne is a cultural space dedicated mainly to contemporary dance, located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Founded in 1983, the studio is a place of creation, artistic residency and dissemination, hosting choreographers and dancers. The studio is committed to promoting contemporary creation and fostering exchange between artists and spectators, as during the Journées du Patrimoine 2024 with a guided tour and a new show!
Shared evening: Mathieu Nieto and Thalia Pigier
In partnership with the Jerk Okk festival
On the Regard du Cygne stage, two plays intersect and respond to each other, crossing autobiography and ficiton, the question of heritage and that of projection.
NEVERLAND - Mathieu Nieto
NEVERLAND is a fairytale escape, queer and camp, a fantastic non-place of all possibilities. Matthieu Nieto explores the idea of transformation to reveal the multiple figures that run through it - plastic or fictional, symbolic or abstract, heroic or monstrous, sensitive or spectacular. This creation offers a poetic journey to the heart of being and appearing, transcending imaginary worlds and experiences around gender, sexuality and identity.
Matthieu Nieto is a choreographer, performer and teacher. He holds a Master's degree in Performing Arts and a Bachelor's degree in Dance from the Université Paris 8 in Saint-Denis. He trained at a number of internationally renowned dance schools: Donko Seko in Bamako, R.I.D.C. in Paris, Coline in Istres, Ecole des Sables in Senegal, and Dance New Amsterdam in New York. He continues to explore different cultures and practices, such as yoga, voguing and krump, all of which influence his practice and his approach to dance and performance. Neverland is his sixth choreographic work.
Celle qui part n'est pas disparue - Thalia Pigier
In Celle qui part n'est pas disparue, the focus is on maracatu, jellyfish and green plants. Colonization and homophobia. Whales too. And Charles de Gaulle, but barely. Thalia Pigier travels through space and time, through history and stories. She takes us from Jerusalem to Rio de Janeiro, via El Dorado. On stage, paper airplanes draw a map of intimacy, where family stories and scientific anecdotes mingle. The play works on the principle of hyperlinks, as with a Wikipedia page: you don't quite know which word in blue took you to the next tab, so you have to go back. Looking for the traces left by the places we've been and the people we've met. How do the different sedimentations of our experiences settle within us? What remains of the starting point as we move on? How do we dance the traces of what we've been through? What is this dance I'm dancing?
Thalia Pigier is a choreographer and performer with a degree in dramaturgy from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She trained in acting at the conservatory and in directing at the University of Rio de Janeiro, before turning to performance and contemporary dance at EXERCE. It was as part of this transdisciplinary journey that she created the Total Project (BATTEMENTS, Le Soleil de minuit...). An associate artist in the European interdisciplinary program Circus Without Circus (2021 2023) and Live Works (IT) in 2023, she was a finalist in the Solo Tanz Theater International Festival in Stuttgart in 2024.
Behind the studio doors: 40 years of dance
This year, Le Regard du Cygne celebrates its 40th anniversary! An opportunity to discover or rediscover its spaces alongside its director, Zoë Salmon. It's also an opportunity to sit under the courtyard vine and discuss the unique history of this place. Created as a utopia by founding couple Alain Salmon and Amy Swanson, Regard du Cygne has always championed bold, free dance, encouraging risk-taking and sensitivity.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at life at the studio with this guided tour!
Tribute to Jacqueline Challet-Haas
Coordinated by Florence Paul
Throughout this afternoon of tribute, discover or rediscover the work of choreographer Jacqueline Challet-Haas, a leading specialist in Laban notation, a system for transcribing movement.
To be discovered throughout the afternoon:
2:00 > 3:00 pm: a workshop on Laban kinetography by CNSMDP graduate Aurélie Berland
3:30 > 4:30 pm: a dance conference with Raphaël Cottin, Cyrille Bochew, Angela Loureira and Noëlle Simonnet
screenings of filmed interviews with Jacqueline Challet-Haas.
Reservations required for each activity, or possibility of booking the whole afternoon. Further information on activities at leregarducygne.com.
Dates and Opening Time
From September 21, 2024 to September 22, 2024
Location
Studio Le Regard du Cygne
210 rue de Belleville
75020 Paris 20
Prices
Free
Official website
leregarducygne.com
Journées du Patrimoine 2024: unusual and original outings in Paris and the Île-de-France region
