Festival d'Automne. 15 September – 19 December, 2009
The Paris Autumn Festival, combining theatre, music, dance, film and visual art events in its programme, is taking over the whole city until Christmas time, from the Pompidou Centre to the building of Opéra Bastille and Théâtre de la Ville. The bill of the avant-garde-orientated Festival d'Automne lists new works previously never performed in France and brought to Paris by artists from all over the world. From its first days the festival has strived to discover and bring into the spotlight new artists, support new beginnings while engaging established luminaries - great masters, living classics of avant-garde - at the same time. Speaking of which - you would be wise not to miss Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, a production by the American theatre magician Robert Wilson and the Berliner Ensemble, a piece featuring brilliant lighting and great acting.
The excellently selected dance programme offers an impressive range of experiences: from Nearly Ninety, the latest - and last - work of Merce Cunningham, the old master of choreography who passed away this year, to Babysitting Petit Louis, the South African enfant terrible Robyn Orlin's performance created specifically for Louvre, featuring a cast of actors, dancers and opera singers. You won't regret paying attention to Miroku, the latest piece by the Japanese choreographer and dancer Saburo Teshigawara, and not missing the opportunity to acquaint yourself with the French conceptualist Jérôme Bel's idiosyncratic way of thinking.
The Paris Autumn is a great chance to enjoy an encounter with Sous le Volcan, a production by one of the most creative representatives of the Dutch theatre, Guy Cassiers, who has been invited to bring over his „drunken Divine Comedy", a stage version of the cult novel by Malcolm Lowry.
Those keen to witness an encounter of all genres of art on equal terms in a single work should head for a performance of the German composer Heiner Goebbels' latest production, the I Went to the House but Did Not Enter stage concert. Evolved from music, Heiner Goebbels' theatre is definitely one of the most unusual phenomena of contemporary art.
Do not miss the original and appealing phenomenon that is the South African artist William Kentridge's theatre. The Paris Autumn provides an opportunity to see his version of Woyzeck, George Büchner's dramatic fragment, staged in association with a puppet theatre - the Handspring Puppet Company.
Programme: www.festival-automne.com
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