By working with Ukrainian dancers accustomed to hip-hop battles, Brahim Bouchelaghem has created a work that combines the energy of improvisation with the rigour and poetry of choreography.

Blending the violence of war with movements from Syrian dances, Mithkail Alzghair uses dance to tell a tale of exile – his own and that of his fellow countrymen.

With strength and energy, Unwanted by Dorothée Munyaneza recounts the trauma of wartime rape. The young Rwandan artist gives a voice to women and children who are often silenced.

With The Roots, a show created for his company Accrorap, Kader Attou brings his own history of hip-hop to the stage, made up of cultural exchanges, childhood memories and demanding technique.

Bataille (2013) by Pierre Rigal emerged from a meeting of corporeal percussion and acrobatics, and is a duo where violence and laughter, blows and caresses come together. A choreographic hand-to-hand combat needing great technical ability and crazy intuition.

Mylène Benoît and Julika Mayer bring six recycled puppets back to life. Georges, a  poetic, humorous piece incorporating dance, blends the living bodies of the creators with the inanimate bodies of the puppets, asking viewers to question their understanding of death.

Founder of the Massala Company, choreographer Fouad Boussouf created Näss (The People in English), bringing together seven dancers with backgrounds in hip-hop, traditional Moroccan dance and contemporary circus. 

In collaboration with magician Thierry Collet, Nathalie Pernette choreographed White Shadows, where the supernatural defies death. In the ruins of a house, a pair of dancers brings moving ghosts to life, making audiences young and old smile and shiver in a show appropriate for viewers 6 and up.

With Dans l’engrenage, the Dyptik company depicts a group of individuals caught up in the routine of work: idealists, they try to escape a system… which sucks them up once again. Our society decoded by seven virtuoso dancers.

With Tel quel! Thomas Lebrun overturns conventions and awareness with an intergenerational sensitivity, humour and energy. In this performance created for young audiences, the dancers examine bodies, norms, private lives and relationships with others.

In Crowd, the choreographer Gisèle Vienne stages 15 dancers at the heart of a party distorted by violence. A radical, polyphonic dance show where movement becomes exhilarating and cathartic. 

With Whist, shown at the Palais de Chaillot from March 10 to March 20, Esteban Fourmi and Aoi Nakamura, founders of the AΦE Company, offer an astonishing experience combining dance and virtual reality, allowing the viewer to travel through the meanderings of their unconsciousness.

With her second solo, Beloved Shadows (2019), Nach hybridizes Krump and Butô, two dances born of protest movements, to explore women's desire and invoke her ghosts. A project born during a residency in Kyoto.