New Settings #7

Since 2011, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès has committed to support the production of new work in the performing arts field, through its programme New Settings.


Now in its seventh year, New Settings presents 16 works for the stage, supporting their production and presentation in various French cultural institutions. Additionally, three performances will also be presented in New York.

Together, they embrace diverse formats and aesthetics, but are united in their off-beat, experimental approach. At the frontier of the visual and performing arts, many draw on innovative expressive forms
 and vocabularies to create remarkable, ground-breaking works across artistic disciplines.

Each piece is the fruit of collaborations between performing and visual artists, or between choreographers, stage directors and artists eager to experiment: performers combine aspects of the visual arts
 with their core media—the spoken word and movement—while visual artists apply their unique skills to the theatrical medium of space and time.

All are chosen from an annual, international call for projects, or as a result of year-round discussions with our long-term partners.

Productions presented from September to December 2017 with the support of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, as part of New Settings #7:

At institutions across the Ile-de-France

Noé Soulier, Performing Art
September 13–15,  2017
With the Paris Autumn Festival and the Centre Pompidou
At Centre Pompidou, Paris

Tania Bruguera, Endgame
September 22–October 1, 2017
With the Paris Autumn Festival

At Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre

Mohamed El Khatib, Stadium
September 27–November 17, 2017
With the Paris Autumn Festival
In several partner institutions in the Paris area

Boris Charmatz, Fous de Danse
October 1, 2017
With the Paris Autumn Festival
At Centquatre-Paris

Alain Buffard, Les Inconsolés (The Unconsoled)
October 12–14, 2017
As part of Alain Buffard: performances, conference, exhibition
At Centre Pompidou, Paris

Annie Dorsen, The Great Outdoors
October 18–19, 2017
At Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris

Kris Verdonck, Conversations (At the End of the World)
October 18–20, 2017
At Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris

Théo Mercier, La Fille du Collectionneur (The Collector’s Daughter)
November 14–19, 2017
At Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre

Clédat & Petitpierre, Ermitologie
November 15–19, 2017
At Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre

Gaëlle Bourges, Conjurer La Peur (Banishing The Fear)
November 22–25, 2017
With the Théâtre de la Ville

At Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris

Festen
Text by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov

Directed by Cyril Teste
November 24–December 21, 2017
With Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe
At Ateliers Berthier, Paris

SMITH & Matthieu Barbin, Traum (Le Paradoxe De V.)
November 27–28, 2017
At Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris

Emmanuelle Huynh & Nicolas Floc’h, Formation
November 27–28, 2017
At Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris

Euripides Laskaridis, Titans
November 30–December 2, 2017
With the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris
At Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris

Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard, Maps
December 1–2, 2017
At Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris

Puce Moment (Nicolas Devos 
& Pénélope Michel), Crumbling Land
December 1–2, 2017
At Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris

In New York, with the French Institute Alliance Française
As part of Crossing The Line Festival

Annie Dorsen, The Great Outdoors
September 22–23, 2017
At Florence Gould Hall, NYC

Alessandro Sciarroni, Untitled_I Will Be There When You Die
September 28–30, 2017
At La MaMa, NYC

Bouchra Ouizguen, Corbeaux (Crows)
September 30–October 1, 2017
At the
 Brooklyn Museum, NYC

Reservations available online on the specific websites of each partner institution.