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.
- Join us at the end of May at IRCAM for the new edition of its Mani-Feste festival
and throughout the year in its recently restored venue, the EsPro, for one-off performances. - As a central partner of the Constellation, the Grand Palais in Paris is hosting the major retrospective dedicated to Mohamed El Khatib.
- 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.
ManiFeste-2025
Spring Festival in Paris
23 May – 28 June 2025
Music
Ircam, Paris 4th
and various venues in Paris and the Île-de-France*
In this new edition, the annual festival organized by IRCAM expands both its ambitions and its scope. At its core, as always: musical creation and live performance, science and innovation, multimedia, and multi-authored works, now presented across a network of partner venues.
Blanca Li and Edith Canat de Chizy at IRCAM, Heiner Goebbels at La Villette, Xenakis and today’s electronic music at Centquatre-Paris, Joan Miró and Hèctor Parra at the Cité de la Musique, Luciano Berio and Diana Soh at Radio France, Niki de Saint Phalle and the sounds of the Cyclop at the Grand Palais… The program also includes tributes to Xenakis’ Polytope of Cluny, created 50 years ago, and to the legacy of transmission so central to Pierre Boulez, founder of IRCAM, born 100 years ago.
*Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris, Grande Halle de La Villette, Le Centquatre, Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Maison des Sciences Humaines et sociales Paris Nord, T2G-Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Château de Versailles
Mohamed El Khatib
Le grand palais de ma mère
13 – 29 de junio de 2025
Thater | Exhibition
Grand Palais, 8th arrondissement, Paris
Author, director, filmmaker and visual artist, Mohamed El Khatib (born 1980) delves into the personal to reach the universal. By bringing the voices of the unseen and unheard to the stage—into the heart of institutional culture—he transforms theatre into a space for healing, and creation into an aesthetic and political act.
« Le grand palais de ma mère » presents a retrospective of his work in an original format:
- An exhibition trail, open during the day;
- Five of his most iconic performances, presented in the evening: Finir en beauté (2014), STADIUM (2017), Boule à neige (2020), Soirées 504 (2023), La vie secrète des vieux (2024).
| A program by GrandPalaisRmn x Centre Pompidou
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
© 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
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
