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“LES PLUS BELLES DE MAI” FESTIVAL

RedPlexus is thrilled to announce its collaboration with the Mairie du 2&3 de Marseille and KLAP – Maison pour la dance for a brand new festival named “Les Plus Belles de Mai” (The Most Beautiful of May), to be held every Saturday from April 13 to May 4.

The aim is to highlight the significance of women in the public space of the Belle de Mai neighborhood. 4 evenings, 4 bars, 4 women, 4 saturdays – that’s the festival’s motto! Throughout the festival, you’ll be invited to discover (or not, if you’re a regular!) four bars run by wonderful women.

Saturday April 13th
Bar Marius
Owner Dominique

6:00pm > Festival opening
Les Plus Belles de Mai parade preview
18h45 > Les Haltes Merveilleuses – Cie Texte hors contexte.
The “Merveilles et Mystères de Marseille” (Wonders and Mysteries of Marseille) tour stops at the bar Marius for an original performative creation with and around Dominique, the bar manager.
7:15pm > Gordolandia – Valentina Viettro
A woman journeys towards her most important conquest: becoming herself. Training to survive both on stage and in the streets. An extraordinary woman, the Uruguayan performer and poet offers a powerful and joyful interactive workout, a cocktail of aerobics, boxing and feminist poetry.
8:15pm > Je suis F – Collectif Mira
10 women from Belle de Mai perform their own texts about the women they embody or dream of being.
8:30pm > Karaoke Les Plus Belles de Mai

Shared meal – Bring your favorite dish!

Saturday April 20th
Les Délices de Praia
Owner Vanny

6:00pm > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Barbara Sarreau – Dance and Performance
The beauty of things can be found around every corner, at every counter, in all of us, as long as we’re willing to see it. The extraordinary is here, at Les Délices de Praia.
6:45pm > Les Haltes Merveilleuses – Cie Texte hors contexte
An original performative creation with and about Vanny, the owner of the bar.
7:15pm > Je suis F – Collectif Mira
7:30pm > Présence Manifeste – Maitena Barret
Exhibition preview – The painter has collected life stories and created portraits of women from the Belle de Mai area.
8:00pm > Les Plus Belles de Mai Parade
Performance by local women from Belle de Mai and elsewhere, under the direction of dancer Anthony La Rosa. A flamboyant, unconventional and militant fashion show that ends on a dancefloor!

 

Saturday April 27th
Café du Théâtre
Owner Galia

4:30pm > Cinéma Le Gyptis – Les Plus Belles de Mai
Tribute to Claude Chapiro Renard, a local icon
Film highlights by Jeff Comminges, Nicolas Roman Borré and Giuliana Zefferi
La Plage des Rebelles de Mai – Boulègue TV’s participatory film directed by Luc Sarlin and the women of the MPT Belle de Mai.
La Fabrique des Icônes – Film by Christophe Jarosz and Elise Lonmport produced as part of the Labo des Désirs “Les Plus Bel(le)s de Mai” project.
6:30pm > Le Gyptis cinema entrance hall – Natura Morta – Milane
Cathala di Fabrizio, Francesca Ziviani, Enzo Châlons – Dance and Performance
With humor, virtuosity and a frenzied rhythm, this choreographic performance seeks to divert the parts of the female body sexualized by society.
7:15pm > Place Caffo – Amélia – Flavio Franciulli
Inspired by the writings of Brazilian poetesses and singers, Flavio, a Franco-Brazilian acrobatic actor living in Marseille, offers an aerial performance in the public space and a vibrant, poetic and corporal tribute to the solitude of women, particularly that of single mothers in Brazil.
8:15pm > Les Haltes Merveilleuses – Cie Texte hors
context
An original performative creation with and about Galia the owner.
8:40pm > Je suis F – Collectif Mira
9:00pm > Place Caffo – Concert Sayon Bamba
The AfroPop music of this established Guinean and Marseilles-based artist tells the stories of women who aspire to freedom, without complexes or taboos.

Saturday May 04
BarJo
Owner Camille

6:00pm > Légitime Présence – Corinne Pontana – Dance and Performance
“I am at home, in public we all are, I dance. Serene rather than courageous, present rather than absent, poised rather than evasive, I dance. It’s okay to dream.”
7:15pm > Les Haltes Merveilleuses – Cie Texte hors
context
An original performative creation with and about
Camille, the owner.
8:00pm > Je suis F – Collectif Mira
8:30pm > Ker Maloya – Women’s choir
This powerful music from Reunion Island has its roots in African, Malagasy and Indian slaves, fused with European musical influences. Let us take you on a journey that will set the dance-floor on fire!

 
 
 
Throughout the Festival…

Photo exhibition by Francis Helgorsky – Les Plus Bel(l)es de Mai (Gyptis Cinema)

Photo exhibition by La Maison Pour Tous Belle de Mai – Women in the Belle de Mai public space (BarJo)

Painting exhibition by Maitena Barret – Présence Manifeste – Portraits of women from Belle de Mai (Bar Les Délices de Praia)

Les Plus Belles de Mai workshops with Anthony La Rosa > March 4 to 8

Dance workshops on identity, transformation and cross-dressing, as part of the Labo des Désirs program, in preparation for the parade performance presented on April 13 and 20. KLAP Maison pour la Danse hosted a performance on March 8. The performer was Anthony La Rosa, a Kelemenis&cie dancer who grew up in Belle de Mai.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Préavis de Désordre Urbain is dead! Long live Plexus Rouge! (2019)

Préavis de Désordre Urbain is dead! Long live Plexus Rouge!

You’re a diehard Préavis de Désordre Urbain’s fan. You wait all year for this suspended and deliciously transgressive moment in the public space. You’ve heard about it, but you’ve never been able to take part. You’re discovering its existence by reading these lines.

You are invited to the festive funeral of Préavis de Désordre Urbain and to the rebirth party Plexus Rouge.

Parties, a privileged territory where excesses are permitted, where the forbidden are solemnly infringed, where rituals of togetherness are shared and limits transgressed, are the main theme of these two evenings at the Friche la Belle de Mai.

In 2007, RedPlexus launches Préavis Désordre Urbain in the city of Marseille. Over 12 years, 320 artists have poured their hearts and souls into the festival’s adventure, sharing thousands of intense moments of creation that have helped to grow the scope of performance art. Since then, it has become an essential part of every artistic event.

Long live the heirs!

Recently, local authorities have abruptly reduced or even withdrawn their support to the festival. The time has come for a metamorphosis. Préavis de Désordre Urbain is being reborn as Plexus Rouge, a festival of immersive forms. What better way to celebrate this transition than with two sumptuous, transgressive festivals?

On Friday the 13th of September 2019, RedPlexus welcomed the public, close friends and artists who have taken part in previous editions of Préavis de Désordre Urbain to the Friche la Belle de Mai for its (festive) funeral.

It was an emotional evening, a festive gathering that retraced some of the major events and work carried out during the twelve editions of Préavis, which took place in the public space of Marseille.

For twelve years, around 380 guest artists have taken part in the festival, striving to question the relationship between the spectator’s body and public space, architecture and the city, and the notion of borders in a constantly changing world. Each edition has seen the emergence of new approaches to artistic expression, always with the aim of deconstructing and questioning existing urban patterns and public order.

 

 

 

The 2019 edition, which took place at La Friche, marks the end but also the rebirth of Préavis, which transformed itself into Plexus Rouge on Saturday the 14th of September. A dance party, lit up by dozens of neon lights, rounded off the many performances held to mark the birth of Plexus Rouge: Plexus Nuit.


This adventure has yet to be built, but it remains imbued with the same guiding principle: to defend and promote new forms of creative expression that are committed to the community, to be a terrain for diverse and varied experimentation that breaks down barriers between spaces, and plays with the limits and boundaries set, to engage the spectator and immerse them completely…

 

 

Throughout the preparations and during the festival itself, a number of media outlets followed us:

We’d like to warmly thank the public and the artists who came for their presence and their energy, as well as the RedPlexus & Ornic’art teams and their volunteers.

 

Artists :
Zora Snake (Cameroon), Antonio Chipriana (France-Spain), Lenka Klodova (Czech Republic), Christian Nicosia (France), Gilles Viandier (France), Jany Jérémie (France), Sandrine Julien (France), Abraham Poincheval (France), Marie-Rose Frigière (France), Pascale Ciapp (France)
Collectif Ornic’art :
Rochdy Laribi – Artistic Director of the festival, Andrey Birnfeld, Rémi Bourchany, Julien Gourdin, Tom Preier, Valentina Viettro, Tristan Wahl

Many thanks to :
Claudine Dussollier (France), Samuel Wahl (France), Radio Grenouille (France), Collectif Wicked Girls, Jean-Luc Woodman, Jean-Claude Sanchis, Patrick Glotain.

The team & volunteers:
Christine Bouvier – Artistic Director of the festival, Aurore Rey, Mathilde Castel, Mylène Vielzeuf, Leire Ospitaletche, Lucille Kozlowski, Lou, Annarita, Alicia and Sonia, Marilyne.

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PLEXUS ROUGE – FEMININES IDENTITIES – #5 (2023)

FEMININES AND PLURAL IDENTITIES

On the 6th and the 7th of October, the Plexus Rouge returns for a new edition!

Plexus Rouge is an ode to the intimate and collective body, to sisterhood, freedom, tolerance, resistance and the art of dance. It’s a celebration of bodies and spirits that aims to shake things up and broaden horizons. You may not come away completely unscathed…

Friday 6th October
Friche la Belle de Mai

 

 6.00pm – Bulle Chorégraphique (Choreographic Bubble) – Julie Alamelle


An intimate, organic, porous immersion into feminine and plural identities. Let yourself be guided into a choreographic bubble, listen to your inner world, sit back and contemplate the flow of the living. The choreographer and dancer reveals her intimacy, and unveils herself in a sensitive, precious and touching dance, suspended in time.

7.00 pm – Amélia – Flavio Franciulli (Brazil, France)


A poetic, aerial performance about the solitude of women and mothers. The artist questions how a man can listen with sensitivity and sincerity. The actor and acrobat immerses himself in the stories of Brazilian poetesses, writers and singers, transforming his body through an aerial fabric that becomes a womb, an umbilical cord and a protective space.

7.45pm – (That’s how Don Quixote decided to save the world) – Cie
Marinette Dozeville (France, Italy)

 

Witches, influencers, weavers and builders of invisible cathedrals, it is with tenderness and radicalism that eight dancers and activists cultivate sororal love, forming a collective body. With the active backing of women from the Belle de Mai and beyond, they work together asserting the gleefulness of the body and a contagious freedom.

Choreography: Marinette Dozeville / Performance: Justine Agator, Paola Daniela, Lora Cabourg, Flozif, Sijia Chen, Lalla, Kowska Régnier, Dominique Le Marrec, Marie Vivie

8.45pm – Frontières – Tchina Ndjidda (Cameroon, France)

 

Female identities and migration: both a mighty battle and a journey towards light, utopia and freedom.

A collective choreographic creation, blending hip-hop and ritualistic dances, fuelled by the stories and physical memories of the women of the Belle de Mai. This engaged dancer made a lasting impression at Plexus Rouge 2022 with his performance Cross, which recounts his journey as a clandestine migrant.

9.30pm – La prophétie des baignoires (Bathtub prophecy) – Ornic’art/ Morphone

 

To be re-born anew? Some of the residents of the Belle de Mai laid down in eight bathtubs to talk about female figures who inspired them. These stories feed a live audio as well as a corporeal creation. Why not dive into a vibrant bath of sounds and let yourself be spellbound by the sensuality of this shamanic ritual?

Live concert: Morphone / Performance: Marie Adrian / Directed by Rochdy Laribi

Place Cadenat

Working together in a public space, through creative exchanges and celebrations.

Identités de Quartier (Neighbourhood identities)
In partnership with EN CHANTIER

2.00 pm – An introduction to upcycling

Expressing one’s identity through recycled clothing (creation followed by a mini fashion show) by Charlotte Denner and Studio Lausié, the neighbourhood’s eco-responsible fashion school.

4.30pm – What place for children in the city and the neighbourhood?

An overview of the inhabitants’ ideas and actions to improve the daily lives and living conditions of children and beyond, by Pragma and MMSH-AMU.

5.00 pm – A stroll through the icons of the Belle de Mai

An immersive theatrical tour following the footsteps of the neighbourhood’s new icons, by Xavier Adrien Laurent (Cie Texte Hors Contexte)

5.00 pm – Radio Belle de Mai / Radio Grenouille stage

Exchanges of ideas around the theme of “Taking care of the neighbourhood and its plural identities” with local artists and residents.

Identities and Performances
6.30pm – Bulle Chorégraphique – by Julie Alamelle

7.10pm – They came down in a troupe. They came in a cortege – An amateur performance created over the course of the week by the Marinette Dozeville company with residents of the Belle de Mai (and Marseille), tapping into the same energy and themes as those addressed in “C’est comme ça que Don Quichotte décida de sauver le monde” (That’s How Don Quixote Decided to Save the World), though this won’t be one of the company’s professional creations.

7.45pm – Frontières – by Tchina Ndjidda and residents of Belle de Mai

8.30pm – La prophétie des baignoires – by Ornic’art, Morphone and Marie Adrian

Tickets :
Friday: €12 / €10 (students, jobseekers)
Saturday: Free

Bar and snacks on site