Created by ARTE and Ferme du Buisson. In Europe from August 26 to December 14, 2007. In Montreal from February 19 to March 1, 2008. Project financed with a contribution from the European Commission.

TEMPS D’IMAGES, A EUROPEAN FESTIVAL

A festival created by ARTE and by La Ferme du Buisson.
European? Most certainly. But with audacity and conviction.
The decision by ARTE and La Ferme du Buisson to dedicate a festival for works that are at the crossroads of stage art and images in movement has led foreign producers and programmers to take part in the initiative. With the encouragement of the organisers, participants have fully endorsed the Festival’s theme in order to design their own personal programme.
The outcome of a concerted effort where there is no place for the notion of exclusivity, the TEMPS D’IMAGES festival has emerged as an instrument that is integrally on the side of the artists. Festival organisers have established an international network of solidarity, creating venues to showcase works of all kinds, each contributing with their share of experience, ideas, artistic discoveries and cultural bearing.
The Festival’s full European programme is available at http://www.tempsdimages.org

The Founders

ARTE
When a European television is interested in living arts, it imagines TEMPS D’IMAGES.
The cultural channel ARTE opens its studios to image creators offering them the unprecedented possibility to meet and implement their art. The cultural events team of ARTE has been encouraging artists to meet with the public, stimulating them to produce hybrid objects together with figures coming from other creative horizons, and taking them all over Europe. Now in its sixth year, and currently involving ten countries, TEMPS D’IMAGES is a true success story, thanks to which ARTE is no longer confined to the small screen.

LA FERME DU BUISSON, Scène nationale de Marne-La-Vallée (Noisiel, France)
From October 12 to 21, 2007
A former 19^th century industrial site, La Ferme du Buisson has become a venue for the production and diffusion of art. Thanks to the multiplicity and variety of the spaces (and to the way they can be transformed), it is the ideal venue for the development of all the forms of contemporary art, from image to stage arts. The season at La Ferme du Buisson includes weekends, special nights, TEMPS D’IMAGES - all events that provide the occasion for audiences to admire the work of resident or associated artists.

The European co-organisers

NEW THEATRE INSTITUTE OF LATVIA (Riga, Latvia)
From September 22 to 29, 2007
A dynamic institute open to the new frontiers of art, especially active in the field of contemporary theatre, dance and circus, the New Theatre Institute of Latvia sustains both renowned and emerging artists, while encouraging international cooperation projects. NTIL organises every year “Homo Novus”, an international contemporary art festival, as well as the “Homo Alibi” festival.

LES HALLES (Brussels, Belgium)
From September 27 to October 10, 2007
By promoting an interdisciplinary project, Les Halles has cut for itself a niche in Brussels’ creative setting: contemporary circus, dance, avant-garde theatre, music, literary and political meetings alternate with each other in the course of its hectic season.

ROMAEUROPA FESTIVAL (Rome, Italy)
From November 7 to December 15, 2007
International show dedicated to contemporary artistic creation, Romaeuropa Festival proposes every year performances in Rome’s landmark spots.

DUPLACENA (Lisbon, Portugal)
From October 30 to November 18, 2007
Duplacena, an audiovisual and arts production company, has widened, with Temps d’images, its area of interest, thanks also to the active cooperation with some of Lisbon’s cultural centres.

TANZHAUS NRW (Düsseldorf, Germany)
From October 30 to November 11, 2007
Located in a former tram depot in Düsseldorf, Tanzhaus NRW is a space dedicated to contemporary dance, offering a wide range of performances as well as professional and amateur courses while standing out as an internationally renowned producer.

LE TRAFÓ (Budapest, Hungary)
From October 9 to November 24, 2007
A venue for artistic performance, the Trafó targets the abolition of frontiers between the arts and between countries, offering artists a wide range of opportunities for experimentation and innovation, stimulating in spectators a proactive stance.”

European partners

CSW ZAMEK UJAZDOWSKI, (Warsaw, Poland)
Mid-November to mid-December 2007 - dates to be defined
The Ujazdowski castle welcomes all the expressions of contemporary art. Its artistic offering is strictly connected to its architecture.

KULTUURIKATEL, (Tallinn, Estonia)
From August 26 to September 26
An open space for creative experience, Kultuurikatel is located in a former industrial complex halfway between Tallinn’s historic centre and the port. It gathers in a committee some forty eminent Estonian artistic personalities and some thirty cultural partners.

Non-European partners

USINE C, (Montreal, Canada)
From February 19 to March 1, 2007
An abandoned industrial area featuring a modular architecture, it is a venue for interdisciplinary and international creativity.