The Festival de Marseille returns in December with an emblematic figure of dance : Alonzo King. Founder of the LINES Ballet Company in San Francisco, the choreographer has a very clear vision of his dancing : building bridges between classical cultural traditions, art and modernity.

Public Rehearsal with Ensemble C Barré.

Come to dance a piece of Bill T. Jones’ choregraphy with students from Jacques Prévert’s middle school !

Bill T. Jones’s Company , the charismatic choreographer of black postmodern dance, brings his company in Marseille for the very first time. He is bringing a powerful but eclectic, passionate but formal, expressionist but lyrical program, combining revivals…

After the Japanese Yayoi Kusama (2010) the British artist Peter William Holden, the Festival de Marseille is showing the – just as unique in the world of contemporary art – work of Christian Partos.

Bill T. Jones’s Company , the charismatic choreographer of black postmodern dance, brings his company in Marseille for the very first time. He is bringing a powerful but eclectic, passionate but formal, expressionist but lyrical program, combining revivals…

After datamatics (2008), the Festival de Marseille welcomes back Ryoji Ikeda, who has gained international recognition for his pioneering work in combining sound, visuals, physical matter…

Following Inouï (2004) and Walk Talk Chalk (WTC) (2009), the Festival de Marseille is pleased to welcome back Pierre Droulers, a key figure on the Belgian dance scene.With Soleils, he explores the notion of unison work along with a reflexion about light. Pleasure meets…

Un portrait plein de grâce des musiques, chants et danses du flamenco actuel.

Following Inouï (2004) and Walk Talk Chalk (WTC) (2009), the Festival de Marseille is pleased to welcome back Pierre Droulers, a key figure on the Belgian dance scene.With Soleils, he explores the notion of unison work along with a reflexion about light. Pleasure meets…

After the success of La Chambre claire (2010), the Festival de Marseille has the pleasure to invite again the Japanese artist Shiro Takatani to present a dreamlike and delicate work which makes full use of images, explores chromatic colour scales and narrates the tale of a life…

After the success of La Chambre claire (2010), the Festival de Marseille has the pleasure to invite again the Japanese artist Shiro Takatani to present a dreamlike and delicate work which makes full use of images, explores chromatic colour scales and narrates the tale of a life…

After showcasing new Israeli dance (Emmanuel Gat in 2005 and Sharon Fridman in 2012), the Festival de Marseille is inviting the dazzling Batsheva Dance Company and his director, Ohad Naharin, the exuberant genius of the dance world…

Come and dance at “Gaga for People”, a huge dance lesson by the Batsheva Dance Company.

After showcasing new Israeli dance (Emmanuel Gat in 2005 and Sharon Fridman in 2012), the Festival de Marseille is inviting the dazzling Batsheva Dance Company and his director, Ohad Naharin, the exuberant genius of the dance world…

Every collaboration between Sonia Chambretto, writer, and Hubert Colas, director, is an opportunity to feel the pulse of our time. This new work takes us to contemporary Algeria.

Every collaboration between Sonia Chambretto, writer, and Hubert Colas, director, is an opportunity to feel the pulse of our time. This new work takes us to contemporary Algeria.

After Travelogue I (2001), Zweiland (2002) and Impromptus (2012), Sasha Waltz comes back to the Festival with Körper…

Every collaboration between Sonia Chambretto, writer, and Hubert Colas, director, is an opportunity to feel the pulse of our time. This new work takes us to contemporary Algeria.

Every collaboration between Sonia Chambretto, writer, and Hubert Colas, director, is an opportunity to feel the pulse of our time. This new work takes us to contemporary Algeria.

Public Rehearsal.

Georges Appaix, a choreographer from Marseille, has always used sounds, shapes and meanings of words in his work. Playing with the alphabet is for him a way to unwind a soft, musical and often witty dance.

Georges Appaix, a choreographer from Marseille, has always used sounds, shapes and meanings of words in his work. Playing with the alphabet is for him a way to unwind a soft, musical and often witty dance.

In 2011, the audience from the Festival de Marseille had the opportunity to discover the young South-African artist Gregory Maqoma with Southern Comfort and Bound from his accomplice Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui…

The Festival de Marseille, within the Marseille-Provence 2013 Project, has joined the Gmem Festival for an artistic experiment mixing landscape, installation and music. Thanks to a walk across the park and myriad of artistic offerings…

After Evelyne House of Shame (2009), Liquide (2010) and Domestic Flight (2010), the Festival de Marseille welcomes back…

After Evelyne House of Shame (2009), Liquide (2010) and Domestic Flight (2010), the Festival de Marseille welcomes back…

On January 18, 2011, the 25-year-old Asmaa Mahfouz posted a video urging Egyptian people to rise against the oppressive regime on the Internet. This act inspired the creation of an opera shaking up the codes of lyrical art and inspired by…