NeufNeuf Festival

This new edition of NEUFNEUF has been built in response to the noise and instability of the moment.
Anchored in sharing and deeply attached to the spectator experience, this programme is a mirror of all singularities, demanding, honest and frank, offering new generations of artists an important place.

What you will see this year is your own reflection. It will be your bodies, intertwined, clashing, sometimes using words to combine the needs and impossibilities of dialogue and communication, rising to the challenge of the cultural impasse that the ‘media’ creates, dividing our worlds, tearing apart our empathies, distancing us from each other. There's joy and enthusiasm too, a succession of contradictory emotions that will transport you into singular universes, and unconventional yet much-needed logics.

We've never stopped trying to meet you, to share with you the public, to welcome the deepest and most intimate changes in your identities, to reduce the distance between the artist and his or her world, to create this intangible place that brings us together and builds us up.

So what do we do? What do we propose now, if poetry, literature, dance, theatre, film, music, circus and the visual arts disappear from our landscape? It is in everyone's interest, in the same way as health, education and justice, that art and culture should come under the general interest, under a specially dedicated and uncompromising public service.

Let's give ourselves the opportunity during this NEUFNEUF to immerse ourselves in the echo of our conditions and ask ourselves these questions at each curtain call. Let's enjoy and reflect together, in front of this fourth wall, on every detail that the artist proposes in his work, on what we gain from each performance, on what we generate in common, charged with our experience as spectators, and let's debate, if necessary, our condition, with full knowledge of the facts.

Enjoy the festival,
Samuel Mathieu