The seventeenth edition of the Festival des 7 Collines once again puts an emphasis to dance and contemporary circus, while also presenting off-the-beaten-track forms, giving birth to good surprises.

Openness to the world, with a true willingness to highlight the matches between committed artists, remains essential for this event. If identity and roots are recurrent social themes, they also are a well of energy and inspiration for artists. For instance, Nigerian Qudus Onikeku uses dance to heal from his exile. He dazzles us with a danced and acrobatic gracious choreography. For their part, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Gregory Maqoma express ancient habits and rules, with a modern approach. New Yorkers Charlotte Ford and Geoff Sobelle question the room taken by men in Nature, offering us a delightful comedy on our specie’s decline.