Festival d'Automne
Paris
For over 50 years, Centre Pompidou and the Festival d’Automne have played a key role in redefining the cultural landscape, driven by a bold commitment to artistic creation and the promotion of contemporary art on both national and international stages. Building on their long-standing partnership, they are once again joining forces this year to present a programme enriched by the connections it weaves between disciplines, thought, and the performing arts.
Bouchra Ouizguen
Nahl
30 September 2026, 7 pm
Duration: 30 min
Panthéon, Paris
At the Panthéon, Bouchra Ouizguen composes the choreography of a swarm of children, alive with vibrant energy — nahl means "bee" in Arabic. In this monumental space, steeped in history, their mobile, sensitive presences shift the memory of the place towards the intensity of a shared present, turning our attention to what escapes historical narrative.
As part of the Portrait that the edition 2026 of the Festival d'Automne devotes to Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen, through five works shaped by traces and memory.
Feda Wardak, Saïdo Lehlouh, Deena Abdelwahed
Ce que le ciel ne sait pas
17 and 18 December 2026, 8 pm
19 December 2026, 3 and 8 pm
Estimated duration: 1h15
La Villette – Grande Halle, Paris
Ce que le ciel ne sait pas takes the form of a monumental, immersive visual work that gives narrative shape in the resistance of Afghan peasants against imperialist dynamics and their extractive interventions in the sky, the soil and the subsoil. An installation conceived by architect and visual artist Feda Wardak, activated by the dancers of choreographer Saïdo Lehlouh, with a sound creation by Deena Abdelwahed.
Sébastien Kheroufi
La Mort du Môme
6 November – 12 December 2026
Tuesdays 7:30 pm / Wednesdays to Saturdays 8:30 pm
Estimated duration: 3h
Théâtre de La Colline, Paris
From the dining hall of an Emmaüs shelter where, at the age of 17, he found his father dead, Sébastien Kheroufi retraces the thread of an intimate and social history. A contemporary tragedy, La Mort du Môme is written for the generation to which the author and director belongs: raised between two cultures, multiple social, political and intimate inheritances, and marked by things left unsaid. A generation eger to write its own story.
Sébastien Kheroufi
Les Enfants de la patrie
16 October 2026, 8 pm
Duration: 1h
Panthéon, Paris
For the duration of an exceptional performance, Sébastien Kheroufi transforms the nave of the Panthéon into a playground for 83 children from Île-de-France. An epilogue—and counterpoint—to his latest work, La Mort du Môme, Les Enfants de la patrie shifts the narrative towards life, and towards the fundamental right to grow up and live unimpeded.
Ouverture de la billetterie le 12 juin 2026.
A multidisciplinary festival dedicated to contemporary creation, the Festival d’Automne à Paris presents, each year from September to December, more than 70 events in nearly 60 partner venues across Paris and Île-de-France.
Theatre, music, dance, visual arts and performance come together in a spirit of openness, loyalty and discovery, bearing witness to the vitality of contemporary forms of writing.
The Festival supports artists from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas by producing and presenting their works to a broad audience. It is through this diversity of geographies, contexts and commitments that it fosters a logic of circulation, cooperation and sharing.
It also develops major artistic outreach programmes throughout the year.
Photo: Xavier Le Roy, Temporary Title, 2026 © Giulia Bruno (detail)
