Parallèle
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Based in Marseille, Parallèle is a production and programming platform for dance, theater, visual arts, and performance, dedicated to a rising generation of local, national, and international artists. Parallèle supports artistic projects in development, accompanies artists in their evolving careers, and fosters the renewal of forms and languages.

Festival Parallèle, developed in partnership with several local cultural spaces and one of our annual highlights, shares these forms with an ever-growing and highly-attentive audience. At the heart of the festival are the artists and projects supported by our platform. Featuring dance, theater, performance, and visual arts, this international, multi- and trans-disciplinary event is a boon for their visibility, revealing the aesthetic prowess and sharp intelligence of today’s emerging artists.
Each year, Festival Parallèle attracts a number of international programmers. It acts as an incubator, a space of qualitative visibility for artists. Its impact becomes increasingly clear year after year, as we watch these artists go on to share their work in some of France and Europe’s most influential spaces.

Making art accessible to people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds is central to our ethos. Festival Parallèle programming also includes art classes for children, critical thinking and visual workshops for teens and young adults, as well as immersive projects for young arts professionals. Headquartered at Coco Velten, a shared space in Marseille’s Belsunce neighborhood, Parallèle organizes its events — from artist talks to ateliers — with the help of our neighbors and other locals.

Parallèle is a part of several informal networks and co-op projects around the world: Be My Guest, international network for emerging practices; More Than This, and Festivals of the Future, both supported by the European Union.

Direction and programming
Lou Colombani

Administration
Pauline Mairone

Production
Claudia Petagna

Communication, press
Julie Maraillac

Administration and communication assistant
Carla Vasquez

Production assistant
Nadiejda Hachami

Festival coordination
Frans Robert

Pierre Itzkovitch
Coordination of professional meetings (mission)

General management
Guillaume Parmentelas

Ticketing
Chloé Delacroix

Video and photo reportage
Margaux Vendassi

Graphic design
Manon Bruet, Spassky Fischer and Mara Wohlfahrt

Development
F451

Translation and interpreting
Anna Cummings

Association Office
President
Sophie Lemaire
Vice President
Solange Dondi
Treasurer
Béatrice Simonet
Assistant Treasurer
Sophie Clot
Secretary
Jean Daniel

Board of directors
Aurélie Berthaut
Alexandre Field
Maxime Kottmann
Sarah Olaya
Sebastien Pons

Parallèle seeks to provide a space of discovery, fun, and shared participation; we stand for respect, inclusivity, equality, diversity, and openness. If benevolent behavior may appear to be a product of common sense or good will — not abandoning a person in need; favoring listening and dialogue over animosity — experience demonstrates that this is not always the case. The festival, in collaboration with its partners and participating artists, is dedicated to providing a safe space for everyone. Statements or attitudes considered to be sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, or otherwise discriminatory will not be tolerated within the Festival space.

Parallèle thus commits to:

  • Placing humanity at the heart of our artistic and cultural initiatives;
  • Supporting a plurality of artistic forms as the foundation of our cultural actions: we do not seek to judge, condition, or restrain creative freedoms or means of expression that our artists wish to explore and which ground them in the power of their creativity;
  • Protecting existing artistic forms and promoting the emergence of new ones;
  • Guaranteeing the fundamental right to cultural diversity and the right of all groups to define themselves as being anchored in a given culture;
  • Guaranteeing the right to choose and embody one’s culture as a founding tenet of a given group’s freedom of expression — groups that we wholeheartedly invite to participate in our events;
  • Creating easy or facilitated access for those who wish to attend or participate in our events;
  • Enforcing an ethos of participative democracy by taking into account dynamics that facilitate the integration of the initiatives and investments of all concerned parties;
  • Affirming the central role of social connection in the organization of a festival;
  • Preserving the environment and natural resources, as well as shared cultural resources, with an eye to future generations.

Festival Parallèle and our team have instituted concrete measures to ensure adherence to these guidelines:

  • The Festival is dedicated to sustainable ecological practices at all levels of its organization: team transportation, food services that center waste-reduction, local production, and sustainable agriculture; reducing our meat consumption, using recyclable table settings, and making recycling available wherever we work;
  • We have drafted a charter of engagement to ensure the respect of rights and freedoms, and the elimination of psychological, physical, and sexual violence and harassment, and discrimination more widely;
  • This charter will be added to our partnership contracts with the spaces and structures that welcome our events, as well as to our contracts with invited artists and their teams, thus ensuring a collaborative effort to work in respect of the law at all levels of our organization;
  • A memo regarding the responsibility of all of producers to ensure the respect of the law in the work environment will be annexed to this charter;
  • We invite all attendees, regardless of their function at the event, to look after oneself and others, and to accompany individuals in need to a safe space and notify the festival team;
  • Two Parallel team members, wearing fluorescent arm-bands, will be available throughout the festival to help, orient, and listen to any individual in need, with respect for their confidentiality. We encourage all attendees to remain attentive to themselves and others, and to notify the aforementioned team members of anyone who seems unwell or otherwise in need of assistance, as well as any individual(s) displaying discriminatory or hostile behavior.
The partners of Festival Parallèle are:
Thursday 19
January
2023
18:00
Tamar Hirschfeld
Grillée
Thursday 19
January
2023
18:30
Antoine Dochniak, Caroline Thiery, Corentin Darre, Damien Cattinari, Elodie Rougeaux-Leaux, Kazuo Marsden & Anastasia Simonin, Sarah Le Treut, Theophylle Dcx, Zoé Ledoux
La Relève 5, In Memory of My Feelings
Friday 20
January
2023
18:00
Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Anne-Sophie Turion
Hiku
Saturday 21
January
2023
16:00
Baptiste Verrey, Kazuo Marsden & Anastasia Simonin, Theophylle Dcx
La Relève 5, In Memory of My Feelings
Saturday 21
January
2023
18:00
Baptiste Verrey, Bronte Scott, Emma Riviera, Kazuo Marsden & Anastasia Simonin, Marcelle Germaine, Paloma Rouillier, Thilda Craquelin
La Relève 5, In Memory of My Feelings
Saturday 21
January
2023
20:00
Ann Mysochka
Dj set
Wednesday 25
January
2023
19:00
Rémi Bragard
Save Our Souls
Thursday 26
January
2023
18:30
Manifesto XXI, Calixto Neto
Meeting
Friday 27
January
2023
19:00
Samir Laghouati-Rashwan
On vous voit
Friday 27
January
2023
20:00
Joseph Perez, Juliette George et Clément Douala
Cérémonie d’ouverture
Friday 27
January
2023
21:00
Calixto Neto, Luiz de Abreu
O Samba do Crioulo Doido
Friday 27
January
2023
22:00
Zulu, Tsip
Dj set
Saturday 28
January
2023
14:00, 16:00, 18:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
Saturday 28
January
2023
20:00
Liam Warren, Hugo Mir-Valette
b r e a t h i n g
Saturday 28
January
2023
21:00
Dalila Belaza
Au coeur
Sunday 29
January
2023
17:00
BamBam Frost
Yes
Wednesday 01
February
2023
16:00, 18:00, 20:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
Wednesday 01
February
2023
19:00
Marion Zurbach, Giulia Angrisani
Les Promises
Wednesday 01
February
2023
20:30
Isabelle Prim
Je serai quand même bientôt tout à fait mort enfin
Wednesday 01
February
2023
20:30
Mousco, Association Ramina
Dj set
Thursday 02
February
2023
20:00
Anne Lise Le Gac, Loto Retina
La Caresse du Coma ft. YOLO
Friday 03
February
2023
16:00, 18:00, 20:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
Friday 03
February
2023
18:30
Alain Gomis
Rewind and play
Friday 03
February
2023
20:00
More information to come
Dj set
Friday 03
February
2023
20:00
Cynthia Lefebvre
Bones Scores
Friday 03
February
2023
20:00
Elena Biserna, Loreto Troncoso Martínez
Pour commencer, ne me contredis pas ! Chapitre 1 Le silence ou le cri
Saturday 04
February
2023
11:00, 14:00, 16:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
Saturday 04
February
2023
14:00
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Dying on Stage
Saturday 04
February
2023
20:00
Betty Tchomanga, Dalila Belaza et Louise Ernandez, Grégoire Schaller, Calixto Neto
Films de danse
Saturday 04
February
2023
21:00
Katerina Andreou
Mourn Baby Mourn
Saturday 04
February
2023
22:30
RONI
Dj set
Thursday 19 January 2023
18:00
Tamar Hirschfeld
Grillée
18:30
Antoine Dochniak, Caroline Thiery, Corentin Darre, Damien Cattinari, Elodie Rougeaux-Leaux, Kazuo Marsden & Anastasia Simonin, Sarah Le Treut, Theophylle Dcx, Zoé Ledoux
La Relève 5, In Memory of My Feelings
Friday 20 January 2023
18:00
Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Anne-Sophie Turion
Hiku
Saturday 21 January 2023
16:00
Baptiste Verrey, Kazuo Marsden & Anastasia Simonin, Theophylle Dcx
La Relève 5, In Memory of My Feelings
18:00
Baptiste Verrey, Bronte Scott, Emma Riviera, Kazuo Marsden & Anastasia Simonin, Marcelle Germaine, Paloma Rouillier, Thilda Craquelin
La Relève 5, In Memory of My Feelings
20:00
Ann Mysochka
Dj set
Wednesday 25 January 2023
19:00
Rémi Bragard
Save Our Souls
Thursday 26 January 2023
18:30
Manifesto XXI, Calixto Neto
Meeting
Friday 27 January 2023
19:00
Samir Laghouati-Rashwan
On vous voit
20:00
Joseph Perez, Juliette George et Clément Douala
Cérémonie d’ouverture
21:00
Calixto Neto, Luiz de Abreu
O Samba do Crioulo Doido
22:00
Zulu, Tsip
Dj set
Saturday 28 January 2023
14:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
16:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
18:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
20:00
Liam Warren, Hugo Mir-Valette
b r e a t h i n g
21:00
Dalila Belaza
Au coeur
Sunday 29 January 2023
17:00
BamBam Frost
Yes
Wednesday 01 February 2023
16:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
18:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
19:00
Marion Zurbach, Giulia Angrisani
Les Promises
20:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
20:30
Mousco, Association Ramina
Dj set
20:30
Isabelle Prim
Je serai quand même bientôt tout à fait mort enfin
Thursday 02 February 2023
20:00
Anne Lise Le Gac, Loto Retina
La Caresse du Coma ft. YOLO
Friday 03 February 2023
16:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
18:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
18:30
Alain Gomis
Rewind and play
20:00
Cynthia Lefebvre
Bones Scores
20:00
Elena Biserna, Loreto Troncoso Martínez
Pour commencer, ne me contredis pas ! Chapitre 1 Le silence ou le cri
20:00
More information to come
Dj set
20:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
Saturday 04 February 2023
11:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
14:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
14:00
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Dying on Stage
16:00
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Decazeville — la montagne qui brûle
20:00
Betty Tchomanga, Dalila Belaza et Louise Ernandez, Grégoire Schaller, Calixto Neto
Films de danse
21:00
Katerina Andreou
Mourn Baby Mourn
22:30
RONI
Dj set