Dans(e) la lumière: a free exhibition combining art and dance at the EDF Foundation

The EDF Foundation unveils its new cultural season, to be experienced from October 18, 2024 to January 30, 2025. This time, the institution is offering a slightly different format to traditional exhibitions. We discover Dans(e) la lumière, an event combining plastic art and dance, in a poetic journey full of surprises.

In concrete terms, what can you see in this free exhibition? The EDF Foundation has assembled a number of important works from its own collections. Works inspired by light, by great artists. We discover little-known creations, sometimes never exhibited, by artists such as Man Ray, Raoul Dufy, Julio Le Parc, Gun Gordillo...

Complementing this journey between the works, visitors can admire a variety of dance performances. The dancers invent an original dialogue with the paintings on display, and let themselves be guided by the light to express their world, their art. Depending on the day and time, the dance performances change. You can admire solo dancers, troupes, improvised compositions or extracts from shows, classical or modern dances...

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The unusual stage features artists such as Mourad Merzouki, Marion Motin, Carolyn Carlson accompanied by Pierre Le Bourgeois (cellist) and Thomas Lebrun, Alexandre Fandard, Ballet Junior, Alban Richard...

Worlds, eras and styles meet and mingle at the EDF Foundation, where artists are united by this creative light. This exhibition should be as surprising as it is original!

The performance program :

CREATIONS

• FLUX by Raphaëlle Delaunay
  Saturday, October 19, 2024 October 23 and 24, 2024 November 6 and 7, 2024
• IMPULSION by Jann Gallois
  November 13, 14, 20, and 21, 2024 December 11 and 12, 2024 January 29, 2025
• A creation by Marion Motin
  January 22, 23 and 29, 2025 January 30, 2025

IMPROVISATIONS

• LIGHT WITHIN by Carolyn Carlson
  October 30 and 31, 2024 November 6 and 7, 2024 - With a live musical performance by Pierre Le Bourgeois
• An improvisation by MAZELFRETEN
  November 13 and 14, 2024 November 20 and 21, 2024
• LAST NIGHT by Thomas Lebrun
  October 30 and 31, 2024 - With a live musical performance by Pierre Le Bourgeois

SHOWS

• MANDALA by Carolyn Carlson
  December 4 and 5, 2024
• VIVACE by Alban Richard
  December 4 and 5, 2024
• Quelques-uns le demeurent by Alexandre Fandard
  October 23 and 24, 2024 December 18 and 19, 2024
• Bouffées by Leïla Ka
  December 11 and 12, 2024 December 18 and 19, 2024
• Room with a view - (LA) HORDE - Ballet National de Marseille - Reprise by Josette Baïz
  November 27 and 28, 2024
• Tandem by Josette Baïz
  November 27 and 28, 2024

SHOW EXCERPTS

• Medley of performances directed by Mourad Merzouki
  January 8 and 9, 2025
• Medley of performances by Angelin Preljocaj
  January 15 and 16, 2025
• Entropie by Léo Lérus with the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP)
  January 22 and 23, 2025
• Silent Legacy by Maud Le Pladec
  January 30, 2025

The Dans(e) la lumière event is scheduled to take place over several editions, each presenting new artists and new shows. Let yourself be carried away by this unusual program at the EDF Foundation!