An international three-day dance festival that places artists and citizens at the heart of a collective dynamic.
Conceived as the final celebration of the European project SHIFT, this gathering reinvents the very notion of performance by questioning spatial hierarchies and dissolving the boundaries between stage and audience.

Bringing together choreographers, dancers, architects, poets, and thinkers from across Europe and the Mediterranean, Dance People – Le Happening becomes a living space of encounters, where artistic expression and civic participation enter into dialogue. Performances, laboratories, and collective explorations unfold throughout the city — in theatres, on esplanades, and in in-between spaces — transforming Lyon into a vibrant platform of movement, exchange, and coexistence.



Maqamat

Lyon

SHIFT

Dance People - Le Happening 

The digital era is shaking up our habits and our fields of perception. But the digital world is also an opportunity to rethink our artistic practices. It offers and puts forward new modes of representation but also of presence in the world. It represents a powerful tool which can, if it is mastered, encourage artistic proliferation, access to culture but also allow a greater richness and openness to the world and reach new audiences.

With guests Omar Rajeh et Mia Habis, founders of Citerne.live, Fu Le from Cie Tétrapode and Éloïse Lefévbre – visual and video artist and Olivier Chervin, responsible for pedagogy, conferences and training at la Maison de la Danse.

Mia Habis

Omar Rajeh

FU LE

Olivier Chervin

Elodie Lefebvre

Désoblique

Relationships and issues between dance and video

What are the links between the body consciousness and the cosmos? Or first of all, what is the body, the consciousness, the cosmos?… During this afternoon it will be a question of investigating by practice and by theory, what these terms invite to explore and question at through the prism of three different areas: Zen, physics and dance. Starting from her artistic research through dance, Vania Vaneau, dancer and choreographer, invites Christophe Demur, Zen monk and Laurent Chevillard, researcher in physics and mathematics to share their practices and points of view on these themes. 

Vania Vaneau

Christophe Demur

Laurent Chevillard

BIPOD 2022

CND - Centre National de la Danse

Corps, Conscience et Cosmos

What does it mean to be an artist nowadays?
In this lab internationally acclaimed dance activist Peggy Olislaegers will challenge you to articulate your artistic practice, inviting you to contextualise your work. Which artistic research questions are driving your choreographic practice? And how are these questions resonating in the bigger framework of performing arts and the society we are living in? Be ready for an inspiring dialogue with your peers and Olislaegers.
Cover Photo © Stephen Wright Photo © Lilianvan Rooij

Peggy Olislaegers

Julia Moncla

Emma Dufief

Matthis Lainé Silas

Bérengère Fournier

Clotilde Amprimoz

Brainstorming/ Bodystorming with Peggy Olislaegers

How do artists work in a war zone? How can artists safeguard a culture under threat of annihilation? What does courage and daring mean in the context of a hostile invasion by a military force? The devastating war in Europe happening right now totally changes our notions of risk, care, support and the role of the artist for all of us. This conversation explores the impact of Russia’s war on two key figures in the dance world, and what they imagine will be the future of dance in Ukraine.

Simon Dove

Anton Ovchinnikov

Polina Bulat

Kyiv

Cartes sur Table - a future for dance in Ukraine?

A conversation at How much artists are protected and have the ability to decide their own paths. What do they need and how would they perceive the dynamics of programming nowadays. Our guests will individually share a concern and immerse in conversation. We look forward to hear their thoughts. 

Khouloud Yassine

Bintou Dembélé

Concerns OutLoud 

Abaya Road is the latest of Zeid Hamdan's projects. This umpteenth musical formation allows this hyperactive producer to have fun with pop and dancing remixes of great classics from the Lebanese, Syrian and Arab repertoire in general. He is accompanied this time by two young singers, Jeanne Humbert (John), harp guitarist with a fragile and suave voice and Celine Khoury who with nuance and assurance handles the different techniques of Arabic singing. But it will also be no surprise if the group launches into some reinterpretations of the great classics taken from some 20 albums that Hamdan has to his credit and from his many titles that marked the Lebanese post-war generation.

Zeid Hamdan

Les SUBS

Abaya Road

g r oo v e was born from an irrepressible desire to create a piece, where "grooving" is an imperative. Between a search for spontaneity, commitment and honesty, this solo testifies to an urgency: the urgency of writing, the urgency to freeze a movement in posterity.

From family moments shared around music to composition work, through the solitary practice of dance, Soa Ratsifandrihana begins a sensitive and almost didactic exploration of the notion of groove. Photos © Lara Gasparotto


Soa Ratsifandrihana

g r oo v e

Félix, a 14-year-old teenager is responsible for a singular crime. He takes the time to bring back memories that we should never have forgotten.

Delphine Montaigne

International Short Film Competition of the DAN.CIN.FEST 2022 

Dan.Cin.Lab

A Contre Temps

Grief's original idea takes root in the discovery of C. Pinkola Estés’ book Women Who Run With the Wolves (ed. 1989). And from F Peyrard’s strong desire to share a certain vision of mourning through wilderness. M Gozy supported these intuitions with his imagination and his sensitivity towards camera work assisted by B. Fiche’s technicity. This short movie is the result of the fusion between imaginaries and multiple artistic backgrounds. Photos © MaxGozy

Florence Peyrard

Grief

BLANC is based on a research about ritual, trance and transformation. Trying to peel the layers of the body and its environment revealing the multiple faces that composes the individual in the same way white color is made of all the other colors. The change of skin, the figure of the shaman. 
The body is crossed by fluxus of energies and images. It is, in one side, material and limited, and on the other side utopic, multiple and infinite. Moving between the strata of a continuum that goes from reality to fiction, from present to imaginary, and from rational to irrational. Cover Photo Gilles Aguilar - Performance Photo Jair Gonzales Ruiz

Cie Arrangement Provisoire

BIPOD 2021| Architecture of a Ruined Body

BLANC

A Tornado + an artistic team + a videographer: this is the equation of this series of three films commissioned by the SUBS. Sophie Laly successively places her gaze and her camera on three extraordinary personalities who confront their artistic practice with this monumental work of paper installed under the glass roof of Les Subsistances. Alexander Vantournhout, Rebecca Chaillon and Cassiel Gaube are thus filmed in the Eye of the Tornado with aesthetic and chromatic variations that set the tone of this colorful triptych.
Episode 3 is made from a working phase for the creation "Study evening" choreographed by Cassiel Gaube, in La Tornade, a monumental work of paper designed by the plastic artists Domitille Martin and Alexis Mérat. Photo Romain Fievet


Sophie Laly

Cassiel Gaube

Dans l’œil de la tornade

Dans l’œil de la tornade - E3: Cassiel Gaube

A Tornado + an artistic team + a videographer: this is the equation of this series of three films commissioned by the SUBS. Sophie Laly successively places her gaze and her camera on three extraordinary personalities who confront their artistic practice with this monumental work of paper installed under the glass roof of Les Subsistances. Alexander Vantournhout, Rebecca Chaillon and Cassiel Gaube are thus filmed in the Eye of the Tornado with aesthetic and chromatic variations that set the tone of this colorful triptych.
Episode 2 is made from a working phase for the creation "Depressions" designed by Rébecca Chaillon and Mélanie Martinez Llense for La Tornade, a monumental work of paper designed by the plastic artists Domitille Martin and Alexis Mérat. Photo Romain Fievet

Rébecca Chaillon

Dans l’œil de la tornade - E2: Rébecca Chaillon & Mélanie Martinez Llense

A Tornado + an artistic team + a videographer: this is the equation of this series of three films commissioned by the SUBS. Sophie Laly successively places her gaze and her camera on three extraordinary personalities who confront their artistic practice with this monumental work of paper installed under the glass roof of Les Subsistances. Alexander Vantournhout, Rebecca Chaillon and Cassiel Gaube are thus filmed in the Eye of the Tornado with aesthetic and chromatic variations that set the tone of this colorful triptych. Cover Photo Romain Fievet, Photo Romain Etienne

A Tornado + an artistic team + a videographer: this is the equation of this series of three films commissioned by the SUBS. Sophie Laly successively places her gaze and her camera on three extraordinary personalities who confront their artistic practice with this monumental work of paper installed under the glass roof of Les Subsistances. Alexander Vantournhout, Rebecca Chaillon and Cassiel Gaube are thus filmed in the Eye of the Tornado with aesthetic and chromatic variations that set the tone of this colorful triptych.
Episode 1 is made from a working phase of the solo VanThorhout, filmed in the Tornado, a monumental work of paper designed by the plastic artists Domitille Martin and Alexis Mérat. Photo Romain Etienne

Alexander Vantournhout

Dans l'œil de la Tornade - E1: Alexander Vantournhout

Voted "best first film" at the Hiroshima Film Festival in 2008, "Le Coeur est un Métronome" tells the story of an angry father arguing with his son. The relationship between the two men is so tense that they can no longer understand each other.


Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo

Cameras of January

Le Coeur est un Metronome

Mia Habis, Director of BIPOD festival, meets the artists for a coffee. She wants to know more and discover things about their character, their work experience and what their morning or backstage looks like. An enjoyable and intimate moment away from the spotlights.

Simultaneous translation available FR/EN.


( Photo Pixabay) 

Pierre Rigal

BIPOD 2020

Morning Coffee with Pierre Rigal 

Mia Habis, Director of BIPOD festival, meets the artists for a coffee. She wants to know more and discover things about their character, their work experience and what their morning or backstage looks like. An enjoyable and intimate moment away from the spotlights.

Simultaneous translation available FR/EN.


Mitra Ziaie Kia

Hiva Sedaghat

Amirhossein Taghavi

Tehran

Morning Coffee with Māha

Mia Habis, Director of BIPOD festival, meets the artists for a coffee. She wants to know more and discover things about their character, their work experience and what their morning or backstage looks like. An enjoyable and intimate moment away from the spotlights.

Simultaneous translation available FR/EN.

( Photo Pixabay) 

Guilherme Botelho

Morning Coffee with Guilherme Botelho

For the opening of BIPOD 2020 the directors of the Beirut International Platform of Dance, Mia Habis & Omar Rajeh, would like to address their audience on this 16th edition, which is taking place in very special circumstances and times. 

They will be joined by dance activist Peggy Olislaegers who accompanied Omar and Mia through the whole concept of this year's edition, sharing a space for thoughts and the three of them wanted to extend the invitation to all the guests speakers of BIPOD 2020. 

On this opening, 10 international guest artists will individually share a concern about culture, society, dance, thought, risk, and relationships.

Simultaneous translation available FR/EN.

BIPOD 2020 Opening | Concerns Out Loud

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