Les spectacles vivants au Centre Pompidou

Dance, theatre, music, performance

The Centre Pompidou's large auditorium is open to all stages, all disciplines, all voices in the performing arts – especially the most daring and committed on the international scene.

Discover the programme of the season!

Presentation of the season

A new collective narrative

With theatre, dance, music and performance, but also immersive experiences using virtual reality, this season reflects the full diversity of forms of contemporary creation*. Informed by the visual arts and human sciences, the programme is rooted in history and marked by the changes in our society.

It is time to celebrate that which has allowed the Centre Pompidou to remain a paragon for the protection and invention of contemporary creation: experimentation, audacity and a unique awareness of the transformations of our time. This season is characterised by bold artistic practices that transcend the frontiers of dance, theatre, music and performance, in collaboration with the Paris Autumn Festival, the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Ircam and all the different bodies of our institution.

Headline guest at the Centre Pompidou and the Autumn Festival, Apichatpong Weerasethakul contributes to the season with three events in one: an exhibition, a retrospective showcasing nearly 50 of his films, and a virtual reality performance titled A Conversation with the Sun. With Territoires, Mathilde Monnier and 15 or so performers invite us to relive a collection of choreographed gestures drawn from 30 years of creation at the heart of the works of the Musée National d’Art Moderne. Presented with Ircam and the Extra! festival, the experimental opera The Rise by Eva Reiter and Michiel Vandevelde reconsiders our primal senses in an act of translation to bring about a new language. Marie de Brugerolle, meanwhile, questions the impact and heritage of performativity on the visual arts. The Dominican-American choreographer Ligia Lewis places marginalised stories at the heart of Still not Still, creating a site of critical imagery and imagination. The Forced Entertainment collective, now in its 40^th year of collaboration, celebrates the absurd concomitances of repetition and habit in our ever-changing world with Signal to Noise. Last but not least, Sébastien Kheroufi, whose work left audiences at the Centre Pompidou thunderstruck last February, is returning with eight exceptional presentations of Par les villages – a manifesto of hope that is more urgent than ever.