At Chaillot, fashion isn't a surprise guest - it's at home! A favorite theater for the major fashion houses during Fashion Week, this time the institution is hosting a Chaillot Experience entirely dedicated to the powerful links between dance and couture. On April 4 and 5, 2025, designers and choreographers merge their arts through shows, choreographed fashion shows, performances and workshops for a total immersion in style in motion. Arielle Dombasle and Philippe Katerine are also expected to take part ...
Between two Fashion Weeks, Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse, accustomed to hosting catwalk shows by the world's leading fashion houses, will trade in its catwalk for a vibrant stage where fashion is danced, embodied and performed! On April 4 and 5, 2025, make way for Chaillot Expérience #6, a mini-festival where designers and choreographers merge their arts in an electrifying program of shows, performances, screenings, encounters, choreographed fashion shows and exhibitions.
Launched in 2021, the Chaillot Experiences regularly invite audiences to explore the fertile crossroads between dance and other disciplines. Music, contemporary art, sport, world cultures... Each edition transforms the institution into a living laboratory where the theater's spaces open up to new forms of creation and performance. After a focus on contemporary music in February, it's fashion 's turn to invite itself to this temple of movement.
Yves Saint Laurent and Roland Petit, Dior and Sharon Eyal... Dance and couture are an enduring romance. Chaillot celebrates this alliance with a showcase worthy of its history. This edition also marks a new partnership with the Villa Noailles, highlighting choreographer-designer duos who will unveil their creations here, prior to the Hyères Festival.
In terms of programming, the event promises to be flamboyant and couture. Maison Fifi Chachnil celebrates its 40th anniversary with an anniversary fashion show, surrounded by long-time accomplices such as Arielle Dombasle, Philippe Katerine and Michel Fau. Angelin Preljocaj's ballets are reinvented in costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier and Azzedine Alaïa. Or Holly Blakey, choreographer to superstars Rosalía, Florence and The Machine and Coldplay, who unveils two of her shows for the first time in France.
And because fashion is also an attitude, voguing and Heels Dance workshops will transform the public into veritable icons of the movement. Here's the program!
Chaillot Expérience #6 program, special fashion :
Friday, April 4
- Excerpts from ballets by Angelin Prejlocaj
From 6:15pm to 6:25pm and from 9pm to 9:10pm (duration 8min)
Les Nuits with costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier (2008)
- Concert by Koki Nakano
From 6:30 pm to 7 pm
Concert by the Japanese composer - familiar with contemporary fashion for many years - with dancer Tess Voelker and costumes by Issey Miyake
- Excerpts from ballets by Angelin Prejlocaj
From 6:15pm to 6:25pm and from 11:25pm to 11:35pm (duration 8min)
Snow White with costumes by Azzedine Alaïa (2013)
- Shows A Wound With Teeth + Phantom, by Holly Blakey (April 2 to 5, in Salle Gémier)
7:30 pm to 8:30 pm
- In 1st, the choreographer uses her own experience of forgetting to create a work that questions our ability to remember, and also to imagine and invent, on the borderline between the rational and the irrational. In a world that is sometimes terrifying and perverse, fighting for our own survival also means creating stories.
- For the 2nd, performed by 10 dancers in a choreography that verges on the ritualistic, Holly Blakey explores with tenderness, honesty and strength a particularly painful episode in her personal journey: her miscarriage. In collaboration with Emma Chopova and Laura Lowena, creators of the Chopova Lowena brand, and with a composition by musician Gwilym Gold.
- Performance by the first Villa Noailles tandem
8:40pm to 8:55pm
Anne Chirescu & Grégoire Schaller, choreographers Lucille Thièvre, fashion designer
- Piano-voice concert by Fifi Chachnil with guests
9:15pm to 9:45pm
Prior to the presentation of her fashion show event, Fifi Chachnil offers a piano-voice tour full of surprises with Arielle Dombasle, Philippe Katerine, Marie France, Blanca Li ...
- Fifi Chachnil fashion show
9:45pm to 10:30pm
With 12 dancers and 20 guests. To celebrate 40 years of history, a fashion show combining music, dance and fashion with Fifi's long-time accomplices will be held on the grand staircase of Chaillot.
- Performance by the second Villa Noailles tandem
11.10pm to 11.25pm
Nicolas Huchard, choreographer Salem Scarceriaux, dancer Guillaume Boulez, stylist
Saturday, April 5th
- Excerpts from ballets by Angelin Prejlocaj
2:30 pm to 2:40 pm, 6:35 pm to 6:45 pm and 8:40 pm to 8:50 pm (duration 8min)
Les Nuits with costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier (2008)
- Upcycling screen-printing workshop with Arthur Gourdin
2.45pm to 4.45pm
Bring your T-shirts or tote bags and come and customize them with several designs using a unique printing process. Visual artist Arthur Gourdin will guide you through this original technique. Continuous workshop, without registration and subject to availability.
- Voguing workshop with Lasseindra Ninja
2.45 pm to 3.45 pm
Put on your heels and your glitter, Lasseindra Ninja opens the doors to her Voguing Ball! For one hour, come and experience this artistic practice of queer culture. Struggles can be danced!
- Heels Dance workshop, the art of the catwalk with Julie Bagalciague
2.45 pm to 3.45 pm
Put on your heels and turn up the music, Julie Bagalciague invites you to parade through the Foyer de la Danse to the rhythm of the music! For an hour, learn the catwalk technique, work on your swaying moves and shine with your presence.
- Show A Wound With Teeth + Phantom by Holly Blakey
5pm to 6pm
- Excerpts from ballets by Angelin Prejlocaj
5.05pm to 5.15pm, 7.20pm to 7.30pm and 9.30pm to 9.40pm (duration 8min)
Blanche neige with costumes by Azzedine Alaïa (2013)
- Performance by the second Villa Noailles tandem
18h10 to 18h25 and 21h10 to 21h20
Nicolas Huchard, choreographer Salem Scarceriaux, dancer Guillaume Boulez, stylist
- Performance by the first Villa Noailles tandem
From 18h20 to 18h35 and from 20h50 to 21h
Anne Chirescu & Grégoire Schaller, choreographers Lucille Thièvre, fashion designer
- Concert by Koki Nakano with dancer Tess Voelker and costumes by Issey Miyake
6:45 pm to 7:15 pm
- Garden Party by Salia Sanou
7:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Welcome to the Sapeurs! With Garden Party, Burkinabé choreographer Salia Sanou presents a choreographed performance for 6 dancers and 6 sapeurs in which the union of dance and fashion, in the style of the sapeurs, allows us to reflect on the question of the body, its history and, more implicitly, a black identity.
- Piano-vocal concert by Fifi Chachnil with guests
9:45pm to 10:15pm
- Fifi Chachnil fashion show
10:15pm to 11pm
But also :
- 100% polyester, an installation by Christian Rizzo and Caty Olive (created in 1999)
A choreographic piece/installation without dancers, using the magic of air and fabric, it represents an original, ghostly dance form with a subtle poetry.
- Exhibition of archival photos and videos by Fifi Chachnil
- Exhibition of prototype garments/fashion costumes by ESMOD students
- A meeting between choreographers, professionals and fashion designers organized by A Magazine Curated by
Between upcycling, screenings and encounters, Chaillot Expérience #6 promises total immersion in the world of style in motion. Ready to see fashion differently?
