The Avignon Festival was founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, the Avignon Festival is one of the most important contemporary live performances. Avignon, in July, becomes a city theater that transforms the architectural heritage of the city in different places of representation. We find there magnificent and amazing shows.
Welcoming different tourists and locals, theater lovers. The Festival succeeds in bringing together a popular audience with international creation, turning the city into an open-air forum where festival-goers talk about the shows and share their experiences as spectators. For one month, everyone can have access to a contemporary and lively culture.
The festival is composed of shows, but also of readings, exhibitions, films and debates. Every evening at the Festival, there are one or more “premieres”, which make Avignon a real place of creations and adventures, for the artists as well as for the audience.
These are not the only activities offered, there are a lot of street artists such as painters, dancers, magicians, indeed anyone who would like to share their talent with the world in a good mood.
The people of Avignon go with their families, with friends, it’s an evening stroll and for some families it’s a tradition. Generally people go for the traditional aspect of the theaters, shows etc… which some are paying and others free but other people prefer to go to the rue de la République because for them it’s the real festival. they come to watch magicians, clowns, dancers, statue men, humorists, painters, cartoonists. … in this street there are also actors of shows and theaters that distribute their flayers and make their publicity to come to their shows and theaters of different dates. For example, last year the heritage of Avignon was illuminated by Helios festival on 8 different places every evening at 21 H to 23h30 of the evening. there were magical and artistic illuminations on different themes. Artistic works were also exposed.
How is art expressed in the Festival of Avignon ?
What is the Street Art ?
How to define street art?
Street art is a contemporary artistic movement that includes all forms of art made in the street or in public places. In French, it is called “art de rue” or “art urbain”.
The street art during the festival of avignon is characterized by different artists who make art in the street.
There are different forms of street art: there are artists who make caricatures and thus transform their talent into business, many tourists come to be drawn
Others make beautiful paintings with spray paint that attract many people because at the beginning it looks like nothing but at the end we notice a beautiful landscape.
After having made these prestation s the artists sell the works to the tourists and the speculators who wish to buy them .
There are also artists who disguise themselves as statues and pose for hours without moving a finger and move only when passers-by give money.
What is Street Dance ?
The Street dance in Avignon are several groups of people who show and share their passion during the festival of Avignon. There are different types of dance some do street dance, a set of dances mainly from the United States.
And others who do dance by adding acrobatics , this is one of the shows that pleases enormously to the spectators, there is always a huge crowd around the artists. These groups of artists are composed of people of different origins and people of different ages. There is a lot of diversity!
There are also performances of contemporary and classical dance in conservatories, these are paying, addressing both adults and children, posing the choreographic act as a contemporary language asserted.
Theater in Avignon :
The theater is one of the most important activities pendats the festival of avignon because it is this ctivité which is at the origin of the festival of avignon. many tourists come from several places ud world and of the four corners of france they organize their week of vacations compared to the theater which are proposed. there is enormousment of type of theater comedy, classic like “the doctor in spite of him” or “scapin”, of the drama, tragedy…
Street performances :
These are shows made by artists; it can be magicians who make their turn, jugglers. These artists amaze the children as well as the adults and are much appreciated during the festival by making them participate in the show.
