Dancer for over 15 years with the Ex Nihilo urban dance company. She created the Compagnie Abdel Blabla with François Bouteau.

For this 6th edition, she presents “Quelques fois quelque chose là” (Sometimes something there), a solo choreographic performance, co-produced by Klap Maison pour la Danse and Marseille Objectif Danse – a creation that explores the suspension of thought, the perception of the sensitive and the living, the corporality of consciousness that becomes an experience of the Body (October 11)

A collective performance for the public space. She deepens the choreographic work begun during the Plus Belles de Mai festival with local women, offering them workshops around the creation “Légitime Présence” as part of the Labo des Désirs. (October 12)

Friday October 11 at Friche Belle de Mai, Place des Horizons & October 12 at Place Caffo.

Emmanuel Siopathis and Michée Quenum ares members of the Compagnie DK-Bel, made up of disabled and able-bodied dancers.

For this 6th edition, Emmanuel and wheelchair dancer Michée have created “Si ce n’est que pour Oser”, a powerful choreographic duet exploring the many possibilities of an “impeded” body. Followed by a solo choreographic performance by Emmanuel Siopathis, “Au bord de l’Autre”. A dance of passage from the one we leave to the one we have become to the one we idealize…

Friday October 11 at Friche Belle de Mai, Place des Horizons.

Multi-disciplinary artist Magali Revest offers tailor-made performances in public spaces and atypical venues such as art galleries and museums. As artistic director of her own company, she develops artistic projects at the crossroads of disciplines workshops with all kinds of audiences. She shares and her artistic work in France, Europe and Quebec.

For this 6th edition of Plexus Rouge, she proposes “Vibration.s”, a choreographic performance: “I’ve lost your body, it slips, I run, I catch it, I miss it, I play with your skin, which has disappeared from mine, I body, I run, I lose. I trace an infinite in movement, body to body, disharmony in a tragic focus. I consolidate my body in the wobble of the fall. I return to gesture to understand the beauty of a why that’s missing. In a drawn space measuring 5 x 5m, I circulate, taking the road towards the advantage, towards the risk of something else. A ball of red wool, a path to be traversed in a tangle of line, thread and images, I place my luggage in the incandescent thread of a story that is beginning…”.

Friday October 11 at La Friche Belle de Mai, Place des Horizons.

Anna Ten is a director, choreographer and author. In 2020, she founded Seule à Plusieurs, an experimental stage company combining dance, performance and documentary theater. With Josiane Vincent, the company’s performer and author, they are developing a choreographic performance entitled “Portrait d’une femme ordinaire dans un océan de coquelicots” (Portrait of an ordinary woman in an ocean of poppies).

This danced narrative pays tribute to a seventy-two-year-old woman. An invaluable witness to political movements in France and beyond, Josiane embodies both an invisible woman and a figure whose commitment has never wavered since May 68. This double persona merges into a single one, revealing the link between the personal and the political, where individual gestures contribute to collective history. Far from the dominant patterns of contemporary dance, Josiane embodies her real body with no pretensions to virtuosity.

She invites the spectator to plunge into the experience of sensory empathy, and to reactivate with her memories of dances, demonstrations and popular uprisings.

Her dancing, political body is a non-hierarchical repository for memories of twist, jerk and madison, of popular balls, of running away from netting and tear gas, of marching in the freezing cold.

Friday October 11 at La Friche Belle de Mai, Place des Horizons.

Francesca Ziviani is a dancer and choreographer, co-founder of the company Sens Intérieur Brut.

Deeply committed to creation and transmission, she has led several choreographic research laboratories as part of Labo des Désirs.

We’ve all lost our wild state, so the challenge is to write and create together a performance that explores the body’s wild states and enables us to rediscover our wildness.

Repetitive movement techniques will lead participants into states of gentle trance, to exorcise the anger that can inhabit us in this period of history marked by exponential violence, and transform it into a creative force. Inspired by rituals from southern Italy, where the importance of exorcising emotions is paramount to prevent them from contaminating our system and turning into violence. The myth of Cain and Abel in Genesis also inspires this collective creation, questioning the complex notion of fraternity-sonority and adelphity.

“Etat Sauvage” (Wild State), a collective performance with amateur participants under the direction of Francesca.

Saturday October 12 in Caffo Square, 13003.

Collective of Belle de Mai residents.

Je suis pas une femme ordinaire, “J’ai extrait ma force de ma faiblesse” (I took my strength from my weakness), a poetic and vocal performance.

Based on Zeleikha Eldjou’s beautiful text “Je suis F” (I am F), written for the Plus Belles de Mai festival, the women of the collective write a highly personal and engaging text/poem on the theme of the power of the lost body, the resilient body, the different body.

Like a scattered ancient choir, the texts of 8 women, each in her own language, echo each other.

Friday, October 11 at Friche Belle de Mai, Place des Horizons and Saturday, October 12 at Place Caffo, 13003.

“20 meters in the life of a woman” in collaboration with Atelier de Mars

From suspended body to lost body, 4 meters from the future, 4 women cling to each other, hanging on until they lose themselves. They will turn around their axis, sometimes suspended, sometimes lost, sometimes at breakneck speed, sometimes in silence, finding balance in imbalance, lightness in suspension… Bodies built by responsibility and deconstructed by experience. In this way, they will rewrite, reinvent, divide and become one in this “Time-Space” that compartmentalizes them.

Disabled artist. Trained as a circus performer and dancer, she has been introduced to aerial fabric and has created a specific performance with Béatrice , Greta and Nadia, artists in wheelchairs.

The performance will be presented on the Place des Horizons.