For all December events, tickets will go on sale starting Tuesday November 15th (Tuesday, November 8th for subscribers)
Readings and Meetings
Pedro Kadivar, Lands of Exile, Lands of Writing
Thursday, December 1st at 6:30 pm
The Iranian author is writer in residence at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe.
Opus 1, Mother Tongue
Paris, April 9th, 1951. The Iranian author, Sadegh Hedayat commits suicide in his room on the rue Championnet by sealing off all the windows and doors and opening the gas valves. An author who wrote in Persian and spoke a number of languages, both modern and dead, father of the modern Iranian novel, Hedayat was familiar with the Parisian surrealist crowd and in particular André Breton who he knew well and who highly praised his novel The Blind Owl.
Sixty years later, taking inspiration from the figure of Hedayat, Pedro Kadivar, a Franco-Iranian author and director, has organized a series of lectures, readings and encounters around the notions of exile and creation. For the occasion, he will be working on a personal project and during each performance/encounter, will read excerpts from texts he has written on these themes, then engage in a dialogue with a guest writer. The series will wind up with a performance-reading at the Ateliers-Berthier (during the second half of the season.)
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Reading and recital / exhibition
Tribute to Laurent Terzieff
Monday, December 5th at 8 pm
Laurent Terzieff, theater as commitment
Reading by Benjamin Bellecour, Christophe Maltot (distribution en cours)
«I attempted to find contemporary authors who take into account the two fundamental aspects of existence, that of the internal world and that of the outside world. A type of theater that portrays the public man, the one who is thrown into the world he is dependent on, with all of his difficulties trying to survive and work and the other man, the private one who depends only on himself, and who looks in the mirror and questions himself. » Laurent Terzieff
Dialog between J.-S. Bach and R. M. Rilke
Creation
Suites by J.- S. Bach performed by Gérard Caussé on alto, with poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
It was in the middle of the 1970’s when Gérard Caussé, who was one of the founding members and solo alto for Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble intercontemporain, rose to international fame. From this point on, he began to enrich his instrument’s repertoire, illustrated by the numerous works dedicated to him: more than twenty concertos, amongst them the recent alto concertos by Philippe Hersant, Michael Levinas, Pascal Dusapin and Hugues Dufour.
Portraits
During the month of December, twelve portraits that trace Laurent Terzieff’s theatrical career will be exhibited under the arcades of the Odeon Theater.
Other encounters with the Théâtre du Lucernaire and TNP (the entire program in September) :
Download the programme.
© DR
An Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, TNP de Villeurbanne, Le Lucernaire,
Compagnie Laurent Terzieff Co-production
Public recording co-produced by and in partnership with France Culture.
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Musical Readings in the sitting room
Pierre Michon, « Le Roi du bois »
6, 7 and 8 December 6 :30 pm
By Bruno Sermonne, actor and Isabelle Saint-Yves, bass viol
«Who am I to wish to heal the silence of trees ? By speaking louder than the wind, the forest sings me a song truer than my own words. Am I the King of the Woods if I remain silent ? Searching for my very breath in the syntax of Pierre Michon, the bass viol of Isabelle Saint-Yves will fortify and uphold my words. » Bruno Sermonne The King of the Woods was published by the éditions Verdier in1996.
Pierre Michon was born on March 28th, 1945 in Cards in the Creuse region of France where his parents were school teachers. He went to Lycée in Guéret, then studied Literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (obtaining a Masters on Artaud’s theater). He published his first work at the age of 37, after several years of studying literature and theater..
© Jean-Luc Bertini
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Musical readings in the sitting room
Alain Veinstein, « Solo voice »
Friday, December 9th at 6 :30 pm
With Sonia Wieder-Atherton, cellist
«Solo voice represents a chunk of life accompanied by words with which I had what I would call, a fair and balanced relationship. I tried to take these words into the unknown, the furthest possible. I asked them to surprise me.» Alain Veinstein
Alain Veinstein is the author of poems and novels. Winner of the Mallarmé Prize, the Académie Française’s Grand Prize for Poetry and the French Language Grand Prize. Solo voice is his fourth book published by Seuil (May, 2011). He is the producer of France Culture’s programs Surpris par la nuit and Du jour au lendemain. He is also a recent member of the Médicis Literary Prize jury
A cellist who studied in Paris and Moscow, Sonia Wieder-Atherton is brilliantly eclectic. Just as attracted by classical cello repertoires as she is by contemporary works, many of which she has created herself, Sonia Wieder-Atherton is always ready to explore new and different worlds of sound.
© Christophe Abramowitz
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Musical Readings in the Sitting Room
Lola Lafon, « La Petite Fille au bout du chemin »
Saturday, December 10th at 6 :30 pm.
With Julien Rieu de Pey (bass, guitar) and Olivier Lambert (computers, guitar)
La Petite Fille au bout du chemin / The little girl at the end of the road has been taken from the novel Nous sommes les oiseaux de la tempête qui s’annonce / We are the birds from the pending storm (Flammarion editors). The storm that all Empires (family, conjugal or social), try to circumscribe and reign in until it is eradicated.
The reading will be composed of excerpts from Lola Lafon’s latest novel and mixed with writings by Joyce Carol Oates, Marilyn Monroe…and intermingled with songs, from Barbara to David Bowie…
Lola Lafon is the author of three novels : Une fièvre impossible à négocier / A fever impossible to deal with, De ça je me console / I console myself with that, and Nous sommes les oiseaux de la tempête qui s’annonce / We are the birds from the pending storm as well as being a singer and musician. She has released two albums : Grandir à l’envers de rien / Growing up on the wrong side of nothing (Label Bleu) et Une vie de voleuse / A life of theft (Le chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi.)
http://lolalafon.free.fr/blog/?p=392
© Lynn S. K. / Flammarion
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The « Thought » Workshop - A Rendez-vous with Ravages
Slow
Wednesday, December 14th at 6 :30 pm
Authors Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Edgar Morin, Harmut Rosa, Carl Honoré, Grayson Perry, Alberto Vitale, Charles Fourier...
Participating in the debate Edgar Frédéric Joignot, Serge Latouche, Lucia Penazzi,
The Slow Food and Slow Citta (« slow cities », 100 cities around the world) movements, constitute the tip of the Slow Life iceberg. Slow Life was born in Canada and the United States (from the « take it easy » movement), and has since, spread around the world. This « active » concept, occasionally militant, embodies a reasoned, well-argued search that is about immediacy and a certain form of hedonism embodied in a new way of looking at the quality of life. It begins with taking pleasure from products and services that allow one to live an easier, slower and more agreeable life, it represents a new way of consuming; material consumption but also leisure time, work, all the activities that make up our daily lives.
There are dozens of spin-off movements that have sprung out of the Slow Life movement : Slow Money, Slow Management, Slow Travel, Slow Drive, Slow Industry, Slow Aging etc. These movements join forces with the advocates of a complete change in the direction of our global economy ; a move towards ecological industry, green tech, a profound critique of short-termism or the austerity measures of the IMF, by offering them an existential supplement. What they are doing is nothing less than offering a renewed hope, a new existence, a very concrete utopia. We must begin by living the Slow Life now and declare that change requires a state of emergency. In this sense, it merges perfectly with other important movements of the day such as the « Indignés », the Indignados (the Outrage) and the various alternative ecologist movements.
In partnership with the Magazine / Revue Ravages
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Philosophical Crossroads
Foucault, «Why desire knowledge?»
Thursday, December 15th at 6:30 pm
Lessons from Foucault with Daniel Defert
In this, his first class taught at the Collège de France in 1971, Foucault follows up on his inaugural lecture in which he declared that he wished to establish a genealogy of knowledge. The real issue in this lecture is less the possibility of such an endeavor than its effects on our concept of Truth since Plato, which means the entire history of Philosophy itself.
Daniel Defert edited the material from these lectures : Lessons on The Will to Knowledge. Lectures from the Collège de France (1970-1971), followed by The Knowledge of Oedipus (Seuil/Gallimard, 2011).
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Leonis’s Musical Lunchtime
A Streetcar, concert
Friday, December 16th at 12 noon
The Leonis Quartet will perform a musical set inspired by the play.
With
Guillaume Antonini Violin 1
Sébastien Richaud Violin 2
Alphonse Dervieux Alto
Jean-Lou Loger Cello
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Rencontre
La République des traducteurs (2e édition)
Les 16 et 17 décembre
Les expériences de la traduction
En collaboration avec l’Atelier Européen de la traduction.
Organisé à l’occasion de la parution des traductions de Lumières du corps, de Valère Novarina, en Israël, en Egypte, en Grèce et en Espagne.
Vendredi 16 décembre de 15h à 19h15
15h – 17h30 : Une fois pour toute une fois pour rien
Amani Ayoub – Egypte, Louisa Mitsacou – Grèce, Ilana Zinguer – Israël, Fernando Gomez Grande – Espagne, commentent et analysent leurs traductions de Lumières du corps de Valère Novarina.
D’une culture à l’autre
Igal Ezraty – Israël et Essam Abdel Aziz Abdalla – Egypte, s’entretiennent avec Valère Novarina.
Entretien dirigé par Muhammad Hirzalla.
18h – 19h15 : Une lecture de Lumières du corps
Séance publique du séminaire Pensées du théâtre de Denis Guénoun (Université Paris-Sorbonne).
samedi 17 décembre de 10h à 14h
10h – 12h15 : D’une langue à l’autre avec David Arar – Grèce, Alfonso Silvan – Espagne, Jose Antonio Costa Ideias – Portugal, Muhammad Hirzalla – Palestine / France, Jie Chun – Chine
12h15 : Polyphonie mediterranéenne
Lecture d'un tressage multilingue pour le chapitre 2 de Lumières du corps, «Quadrature du langage».
Avec Roséliane Goldstein – France, et les membres de la République des traducteurs, 2e édition.
13h15 : Présentation en France de l’édition espagnole et de l’édition égyptienne de Lumières du corps.
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Nombre de places limité à 50 personnes.
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