To Life - Ode à la vie

To Life

To life - by Stefanie Gartmann

"To Life", de Stefanie Gartmann

"To Life" Stefanie Gartmann

"To Life" - di Stefanie Gartmann

Lene lives in a remote fjord in Iceland. For more than thirty-five years, she has been creating art with organic animal material: skins, horse hair, bones. "When a skin is tanned and ready” Lene explains, “I can feel a little bit of the life coming back”.

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<p>Lene lives in a remote fjord in Iceland. For more than thirty-five years, she has been creating art with organic animal material: skins, horse hair, bones. "When a skin is tanned and ready” Lene explains, “I can feel a little bit of the life coming back”.</p>

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Girls that live in a block of social housing flats tell of how their mothers struggled to survive

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All her life Madame C made tailored suits...

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In Lebanon, Syrian refugee children think of their camp as a giant playground

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More than 10 million people in the world are behind bars with half of the world's prison population in Russian, Chinese or American jails. 

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The most romantic of Mozart’s operas, conducted by Raphaël Pichon, with soprano Sabine Devieilhe.

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The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland. Once German East Prussia, it is now home to 1 million Russian citizens. What is life like in this small territory now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began?

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The most popular of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and staged by Romeo Castellucci. A very special production, which promises to stir up the audience at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

A message from director Romeo Castellucci:
The action you are about to witness has the particular misfortune of containing images that, charged with violence, seem to be the cruel likeness of our near reality.
I imagined this work over a year ago.
No one could have foreseen this painful overlapping of art and reality, which today seems like an atrocious prophecy.
How to support today the unconscious exactness of these images on the stage?
But what to do in the face of the irretrievable that theatre represents?
It is essential to accept the pain produced by this concordance, in the light that Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection can represent.
Romeo Castellucci
July 2022
Recorded 13 July in Aix-en-Provence with the Orchestre de Paris and the Choir of the Orchestre de Paris.

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French electro duo the Blaze are in demand for their melancholic-euphoric sound, trademark dream-like music videos and seriously engaging live performances.

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Llivia, Between France and Spain

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