Rencontres

Rencontres (“Meetings”) is La Bâtie’s cultural outreach programme — a space for dialogue and further exploration of the works featured at the festival. The goal is to make these works accessible to as many people as possible, while opening up new avenues of thought.

This year’s events invite audiences to delve into the themes tackled in many of the works featured: intimacy, secrets, buried stories and those hidden parts of ourselves that art can sometimes bring to light. These gatherings provide an opportunity to speak with the artists, discover their creative processes and explore the different ways in which the act of revealing unfolds on stage. What do we choose to say? What do we keep to ourselves? How does intimacy become performance material, and what does it awaken in the audience?

Through discussions, workshops, screenings and outreach sessions, Rencontres offers a forum to share emotions, memories and the invisible threads that art weaves between the stage and the auditorium, artists and audiences, the self and others.

After-show discussion :

• NÔT - Marlène Monteiro Freitas
• Borda - Lia Rodrigues
• Nina - Fanny & Alexander
• Nowhere - Khalid Abdalla / Omar Elerian