Performances
In 2025, the Centre Pompidou is beginning a major transformation !
In anticipation of the renovation of its iconic building, the performance and conference halls were the first spaces to close. However, the live performance program continues throughout the renovation period, thanks to the Centre Pompidou’s Constellation network of partner institutions, through which its spirit radiates across France and around the world, from 2025 until its reopening in 2030.
Dance, theatre, performance, music… all come to life in the venues of major festivals such as the Biennale de la danse in Lyon or the Festival d’Automne in Paris.
Lyon
As part of 21e Biennale de la danse à Lyon
from 6 to 28 September 2025
Eszter Salamon, Gisèle Vienne and Dorothée Munyaneza
Dance
Cité internationale de la gastronomie, Lyon
Le Sucre, Lyon
Les Grandes Locos, Lyon
Théâtre National Populaire, Villeurbanne
Villa Gillet, Lyon
The shared focus of the Centre Pompidou and the Biennale de la Danse on a multidisciplinary approach to dance has led to the creation of a special program centered on three major choreographers of the contemporary scene: Gisèle Vienne, Eszter Salamon, and Dorothée Munyaneza. Their work will be presented in key partner venues of the Biennale, such as Les Grandes Locos, Théâtre National Populaire, and Villa Gillet.
Supported over many years by the Centre Pompidou, these three choreographers will present new creations or re-creations conceived in situ, each exploring intersections between dance and other artistic disciplines: moving images for Eszter Salamon, music for Gisèle Vienne, and literature and poetry for Dorothée Munyaneza. Distinctive and committed, their aesthetics open up new perspectives on essential themes such as our relationship with nature, time, and others.
Eszter Salamon
Landscaping, création 2025
Dance video installation developed with Carte Blanche
6 – 28 September 2025
Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie, Lyon – Grand Hôtel-Dieu
Free entrance
19 – 28 September 2025
Ircam, Paris
MONUMENT 0.10 : The Living Monument
10 and 11 September 2025
Théâtre National Populaire, Villeurbanne
Dorothée Munyaneza
Myriade
Talks, readings, screenings, concerts, performances, DJ sets
25 – 28 September 2025
Villa Gillet
Infos and booking in the agenda
Version(s)
Perfomance
25 – 27 September 2025
Villa Gillet
Lille
© Succession Picasso. Photo : Christian Bahier et Philippe Migeat - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI
As part of "Fiesta", the 7th edition of lille3000
Satie's Parade
in front of Rideau de scène de "Parade" by Pablo Picasso
20 and 21 September 2025
Opéra de Lille
To mark the 2025 European Heritage Days, the Orchestre National de Lille will perform Erik Satie’s Parade in front of the original stage curtain for the 1917 ballet "Parade" by Pablo Picasso, held in the Centre Pompidou collection.
| A concert Lille3000 x Centre Pompidou
Paris
As part of Festival d'Automne à Paris
Noé Soulier and Tarek Atoui
Organon – creation 2025
9 – 12 October 2025
La Ménagerie de verre, 11th arrondissement, Paris
Born from the collaboration between Noé Soulier—choreographer and director of the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers, a regular guest at the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d’Automne—and Tarek Atoui, electroacoustic artist and composer, Organon offers a bold reconfiguration of the relationship between body, space, and sound, performed by six dancers.
| A performance by Festival d'Automne x La Ménagerie de verre x Centre Pompidou
As part of Festival d'Automne à Paris
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Tapajós
10 – 17 December 2025
Ircam, 4th arrondissement, Paris
Continuing her artistic research on endangered river landscapes and the human and non-human life forms that depend on these fragile ecosystems, the new piece by Brazilian artist, performer, and researcher Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Tapajós, was born out of encounters with Munduruku mothers affected by mercury pollution from illegal gold prospecting in the Tapajós River.
In this performance-ritual, the testimonies of the mothers—Munduruku mothers, family mothers, fish mother, forest mother, river mother—and of the river itself are made manifest through analog photographic development—a process that originally involved mercury, the same substance once used to reveal gold in water.
| A performance by Festival d'Automne x Ircam x Centre Pompidou
