Chaillot Augmenté x Rencontres TMNlab Performing Art and digital environments

Artists, professionals from the performing arts, research and tech sectors will be gathered to explore immersive spaces and technological environments – from XR to AI, from transmedia writing to artificial living arts – as so many possibilities for creation. Two days to explore and accompany these new forms, from technology to meeting the public, from financing to new production processes.

Booking

9:30→10 am - Welcoming coffee

10 → 10:30 am - Introduction 

Rachid Ouramdane, president-director, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse 
Marion Franquet, president, TMNlab, secretary general, Scène Nationale Carré-Colonne 

10 am - Opening : the (retro)futuristic performing arts 
Franck Bauchard, Digital Policy Coordinator at the DGCA, Ministry of Culture

10:30 am - Illusion of opportunity : does the immersive economy redefine creation ?
Alexander Whitley, choreographer (UK) and Julien Dubuc, artist, INVIVO collective
Clémence Debaig, choreographer and Creative Technologist (France / UK) 

animation : Myriam Achard, Head of new media partnerships & PR, PHI (Québec) 

12 pm - Programming hybrid artworks : tools, networks and identification 
Marie Pia Bureau, director, ONDA 
Séverine Bouisset, director, Les Gémeaux, Scène Nationale 
Julie Sanerot, director, Maison des Arts de Créteil 

animation : Mathieu Vabre, artistic director, CHRONIQUES, co-president, Hacnum 

1 pm - Lunch in the Foyer de la Danse by Bande de cheffes (book your meal with your ticket!) 

2:30 pm - Subjective panorama 
Anne Le Gall, co-founder and chief delegate, and Clément Coustenoble, head of Community, TMNlab 
Focus 404 : when bugs arise 
Chrystèle Bazin, journalist 

3 pm - Artistic potentialities of technologies : words of artist between immersive sound and AI exploration
Natacha Paquignon, choreographer 
Anders Hasmo, playwright, and/or Peer Perez Øian, stage director (Norway) - subject to approval 
Mathieu Chamagne, musician, composer, musicien, compositeur, developer 
Marco Donnarumma, multimedia and sound artist, performer (Germany) 

animation : Chrystèle Bazin, journalist 

4:15 pm - Artistic potentialities of technologies : words of artist around the XR
Joséphine Derobe, writer, artist and movie director 
Isis Fahmy, stage director and playwright, and Benoît Renaudin, designer, musician and performer (Switzerland) 
Singing Chen, movie director (Taipei) 
Frédéric Deslias, stage director, composer, digital and multi-faceted artist 

animation : Chrystèle Bazin, journalist 

5:15 pm - Focus : international creation dynamics
Singing Chen, filmmaker (Taiwan)
Myriam Achard, Head of New Media Partnerships & PR, PHI (Quebec)

5.40 pm – Closing remarks
Rosita Boisseau, French journalist and dance critic, Le Monde

6:30 pm - Chaillot Rencontre Dance and Artificial Intelligence

These sessions (two per day) will take place in the Foyer de la Danse, in groups of around fifteen people, and are subject to prior registration. You will receive a form to register and submit your questions in advance (see the registration link at the top of the page).

Tuesday 12pm – 1pm – Institut Français
What are the prospects and what international support is available for creation in the digital environment within the performing arts?
with Olivier Delpoux, Hannah Bellicha, Nadia Bouissehak, Digital and Audiovisual Creation Department, Institut Français

Tuesday 2.30pm – 3.30pm – ONDA
What support is available for creation, distribution and promotion of works in the digital environment within the performing arts?
with Anne Routin, ONDA

9→10 am - Welcoming coffee 

10 am→ Introduction 
Pierre Lungheretti, delegate director and general administrator, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse 
Anne Le Gall, co-founder and chief delegate, TMNlab 

10.10 am→ Opening remarks : working in the present with the tools of the future
Sarah Ellis, Director of Innovation, Royal Shakespeare Company

10.30 am→ Beyond innovation: towards an ecology of transformation
Clément Thibault, Director of Visual and Digital Arts, Le Cube Garges, cultural innovation hub in Garges-lès-Gonesse
Lisa Mara Ahrens, Creative Production Performance & Digital Culture, HAU (Germany) 

animation : Carla Meller, international relations manager, Academy for Theatre and Digitality (Germany) 

11:45 am→1 pm - Focus : Hellfest x ARTE x Fortnite  
Maud Clavier, innovation director, Zorba, XR and Metavers productions expert 

Publics : How digital environments reshape our relationship to performing arts 
Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator, researcher and consultant in cultural innovation and digital strategies 
Rachid Ouramdane, president-director, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse 
Nicolas Ligeon, co-director of the Théâtre de l'Élysée, co-founder and coordinator of the Sous les Néons collective

animation : Anne Le Gall, co-founder and chief delegate, TMNlab 

1 pm - Lunch in the Foyer de la Danse by Bande de cheffes (book your meal with your ticket!) 

2:30→3 pm - Focus : C.A.L.I.P.S.O, from laboratory to ecosystem 
Presentation and challenges of Culture immersive et métavers – France 2030 project 

3 pm - In which spaces to research arts and how to connect them ?
Jonathan Thonon, assistant to the general management – head of development and international relations, Théâtre de Liège (Belgium) 
Gilles Jobin, dancer and choreographer (Switzerland) 
Emanuela Righi, productor, Novaya 

animation : Line Abramatic, founder, Gengiskhan, president, Mesden Valley 

4h15 pm - Focus : Navigating a changing ecosystem while preserving art 
Marie du Chastel, curator, artistic director, KIKK (Belgium) 
Line Abramatic, founder of Gengiskhan and chair of Mesden Valley

4h40pm - Performing arts and digital environments : what synergies do we need ? Mapping, diagnosis and perspectives – Interactive and concluding session

Mapping, analysis and outlook – Panel discussion with:
Cécile Berthoumieux, Director of ZINC, and Mathieu Vabre, Artistic Director of CHRONIQUES and Co-President of HACNUM
Géraldine Farage, Director of the PIXEL cluster, which oversees the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region’s resource centre for creation in digital environments
Marie Point, President of PXN and Director of Dark Eurphoria
Orianne Vilmer, co-founder and Managing Director of La Fabrique de la Danse, which has launched a ‘dance and technology’ incubator with the Centre des Arts d’Enghein-les-Bains
Loïc Rabache, Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of Marmande, responsible for planning a regional hub for the Cultural and Creative Industries – Performing Arts and Digital Arts in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne)
Cyrielle Garson, Senior Lecturer, University of Avignon
Marie-Pia Bureau, Director of ONDA

animation : Anne Le Gall, co-founder and chief delegate, and Clément Coustenoble, head of community, TMNlab 

6pm - Closing cocktail

Dance & AR demonstration with Danc'R

These sessions (two per day) will take place in the Foyer de la Danse, in groups of around fifteen people, and are subject to prior registration. You will receive a form to register and submit your questions in advance (see the registration link at the top of the page).

Wednesday 12pm – 1pm – Incubators
Focus on the Le Vivier x L’Incubateur danse et technologies programme (La Fabrique de la Danse x the CDA)
with Géraldine Farage, Pôle Pixel, Lucie Mariotto, La Fabrique de la Danse and Driss Nicolle, Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains

Wednesday 3pm – 4pm – Hacnum x PXN
Funding creation in the digital environment within the performing arts: networks and support
with Céline Berthoumieux, Hacnum, and Marie Point, PXN

Discover a selection of VR works with Unframed Collection on Tuesday 5 May from 1pm to 6pm and Wednesday 6 May from 11.30am to 5.30pm

DANCE, DANCE, DANCE - MATISSE
Choreography and motion capture featuring dancer Sarah Silverblatt-Buser.
Selected for the 2025 Venice Film Festival. World premiere at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

INSIDER-OUTSIDER
An immersive musical work created by composer and musician Philippe Cohen Solal.
World premiere presented as part of the Art Brut exhibition at the Grand Palais in 2025 and selected for SXSW 2026.

LESS THAN 5GR OF SAFFRON
A magnificent VR experience created by Iranian artist Négar Motevalymeidanshah, recounting the assassination of her father by the Revolutionary Guards. Very effective use of the Quill software.

FERENJ
The work explores the concepts of home and identity through the eyes of a mixed-race, Ethiopian-American woman who grew up amidst cultural dissonance. Use of point cloud technology.

These four experiences last less than 15 minutes.
Alexandre Roux has set up a kiosk-style space of this kind so that visitors can choose the work(s) they wish to try out.
https://vimeo.com/894925087/0a4787729e

Screening of Singing Chen’s film
In partnership with the Taiwanese Cultural Centre in Paris

Screening of the virtual reality film *The Clouds Are Two Thousand Metres Up* by Taiwanese director Singing Chen

Running time : 62 min

Booking on the spot, subject to availability (very limited seating)

Tuesday 5 : 10a.m., 11.15am, 12.30pm, 2.15pm, 3.30pm, 4.45pm, 6p.m., 7.15pm15
Wednesday 6 : 10a.m., 11.15am, 12.30pm, 2.15pm, 3.30pm, 4.45pm