Festival d'Avignon 2025

Ensemble from 5 to 26 July for the 79th edition of the Festival D'Avignon

Unveiled in April at the FabricA, permanent venue of the Festival d'Avignon, the program of the 79th edition of the Festival is promising.
During these 22 days of the festival, 40 venues are occupied, 16 municipalities receive the traditional travelling show, 42 shows will be programmed including 32 creations for 300 performances and more than 121,000 places on sale. While cuts are announced everywhere in France for culture and the world is experiencing political and ecological upheavals, Ghislain Gauthier of CGT Spectacle had the floor to defend force the need for a public service of live performances. The situation is explosive and we want to warn about the risks of disengagement from communities in a context of rising far-right.” Despite everything, Avignon will once again become a mirror city of the world, capital of live entertainment where the party has its place.

In 2024, the director Tiago Rodrigues was looking for words, in 2025 he found them by borrowing as motto of this 79th edition, «I am you in the words» of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwich
The choice of the invited Arabic language, which represents 30% of the scheduled shows, the importance of dance and music even if the theater still represents 42% of the programming, the constellation of shows chosen with the artist Marlene Montero-Freitas (‘ReEncanto’, ‘Coin Operated’ or ‘Soma’), the unique evening in tribute to Gisèle Pelicot, the immersion in an Afghan salon ‘Inside Kaboul’, Tiago Rodrigues’ latest creation “La Distance” and the return of monumental works and familiar artists. 

The invited Arabic language
After English in 2023 and Spanish in 2024, the Arabic language is the invited language with creators from Tunisia, Syria, Palestine, Morocco, Lebanon, Iraq... The Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen will invite amateur dancers to the Place du Palais at the opening of the festival, the Lebanese choreographer Ali Chahrour offers us the story of three resistant women 'When I saw the sea'Tunisian Mohamed Toukabri shapes a poetic and militant solo. Arabic poetry in all its forms will be dedicated at a unique evening, ‘Nour’. Franco-Iraqi artist Tamara Al Saadi rewrites Antigone with ‘Taire’. Series 1 of ‘Vive le Sujet’ will allow us to meet the questions of the Syrian Wael Kadour regarding the right to creation.

A poster that is unanimous
Clear, soothing, turquoise blue or midnight blue, crepuscular or luminous, it seduces, invites to poetry, to travel and gather. In agreement with the invited language, the calligraphic arabesques of the Arabic language are declined on the poster but also on the program in flat or in gradients, convolutions, tender traits or ragers, spots or dotted.
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