June 4

Exposition Promesses tenues de Jean-Louis Fernandez > Grand Foyer culturel at Place des Arts (near the box office).

For more than a month, from Chambéry to the Avignon Festival, French photographer Jean‐Louis Fernandez followed the rehearsals for Sang des promesses, Wajdi Mouawad’s quartet consisting of Littoral, Incendies, Forêts and Ciels. In close contact with the artists, he was a privileged witness to fleeting invention, the creative process and moments of searing intensity. This exhibit conveys the beauty and emotion of the experience.

2:30pm > QG > ESPACES VIVARIUM

Lecture-workshop by the director and set designer of Vivarium Studio, PHILIPPE QUESNE (L'effet de Serge), on his approach to writing for the stage.
French

6pm > Cinémathèque québécoise > La danseuse d'ébène

France, Seydou Boro, 2002, 54 min., in French
Directed by the choreographer Seydou Boro (Poussières de sang), this portrait of Irène Tassembedo, founder of the National Ballet of Burkina Fasp, provides an instructive look at the richness of both traditional and contemporary forms of African dance. 

10pm > party at QG