Coronavirus COVID-19 : Africa 2020 Season postponed

The President of the French Republic announced in November 2017 in Ouagadougou, before confirming the news on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos, that a special season would be organized in France to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied...

Its inauguration scheduled for 8 June 2019 will be the starting point for a new artistic and cultural impetus in Senegal and throughout sub-Saharan Africa. A first call for applications was launched in the spring.

Inspired by a Chinese fairy tale, La Fresque features ten dancers from the Preljocaj ballet. The dark sets and luminous couples are the purest expression of the style of a choreographer whose creations are the fruit, as he likes to say in the words of René Char, of a “furious art”. The ballet is...

Around the world in 14 hours? It’s possible at the Cité Internationale des Arts! Embark on this new edition of the Traversées du Marais on 6th and 7th September 2019 and travel to the heart of workshops featuring all kinds of artists: photography, painting, sculpture, writing, music and performance...

For four months, from August to November of 2019, the greatest contemporary dance artists from France and Francophone countries will take centre stage in nine major cities in the United Kingdom.

Since January 2019, the FAIR[E] collective has headed the National Choreography Centre in Rennes and Brittany (CNRB). Their original choreography is on display throughout September in Quito, Ecuador.

18 artists in residence at the Cité internationale des arts open the doors to their workshops. Coming from all over the world, they will share with the public their work in progress and their experiences of residency in France.

On the occasion of March 8, International Women's Rights Day, the Institut français chose to highlight meetings, works, or portraits of women who, from Mexico to Tunisia, from Haiti to South Africa, from France to India, fight, through art and culture, for women's rights and explore the feminine...

Pour sa 15e édition, le festival international de danse contemporaine On marche accueille la Biennale de la Danse en Afrique 2020, du 20 au 28 mars à Marrakech. Pilotée par un comité artistique panafricain, cette Biennale est une renaissance programmée.

The La Plaza de la Danza Festival runs from 14 to 20 February 2020 in Quito. This showcase of Ecuadorian dance will feature artists from the emerging Ecuadorian scene and French artists, including Julie Nioche and Sylvain Huc, whose pieces will be performed by the dancers of the Compañía Nacional...

On Thursday, April 2, 2020, the recipients of the Institut français / Cité internationale des arts programme shared their residency experiences on the social networks. Follow this digital journey to the heart of their studios!

The greatest French artists will be on-stage in your living room from 5th June to 16th July, as part of the French Waves online festival. 

In the context of confinement that still affects many countries, the « Des/confinés » programme offers weekly meetings with cultural figures on social networks.

The Institut français presents the results of the France-Romania Season 2019 in augmented reality, following more than 8 months of multidisciplinary programming in France and Romania, followed by 2.5 million people in both countries

A free “France-Romania Results” app has been specially designed...

Since 2015, the Centre Choreographique National de Rillieux-la-Pape, in partnership with the Danser sans frontiers (“Dancing without Borders”) association, has been conducting the Passerelles project. 24 amateur dancers from France and Israel use their art to send a message of peace and brotherhood...