Annie Erno’s The Event at the Theater, Anne Rearick’s paintings, a stroll through the Villa Medici… Our 5 cultural must-sees

Anne Rearick, documentary photographer

Born in Idaho in 1960, this photographer belongs to the great tradition of American documentary photography, which works with long-term subjects and deepens its relationship with people and places over time. In the United States, South African townships, the French Basque Country, Perch, and even Kazakhstan, Anne Rearick’s photographs celebrate the mundanity of the worlds in which she is immersed. Working in film in black and white, he produces his own extensions and has owned the Vu’ agency since 1993. His new exhibition at the Galerie Clémentine de la Feronnière shows portraits such as Renaissance Madonnas, agricultural scenes such as Miletus compositions or landscapes. from American cinema. When reality becomes a symbol.

Until March 9 galleryclementinedelaferonniere.fr

“The Event,” by Annie Ernot at the Theater de l’Atelier

After Audrey Dewan, whose film The event (2021), adapted from Annie Erno’s novel of the same name, won the Golden Lion at the 78th Venice Film Festival, Marianna Baslerin’s turn for this autobiographical story. The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature is 60 years old, with a backdrop of several decades, three significant months of his life in 1963-1964. A story about the lonely journey of a young woman who has to hide her pregnancy and desperately searches for an angel maker, at a time when abortion was banned in France. At a time when the fundamental right to voluntary termination of pregnancy is being reviewed in many countries, Marianne Basler gives voice to this text, also guiding it. Necessary and sad.

The eventFrom February 13 to March 27, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 19:00, theatre-atelier.com

Ben Duke Ballet Ramber. 20 majestic dancers at the Tâtre de la Ville

The Rambert Ballet, which claims to be a British national company, invites artists such as Ben Duke. The choreographer, developing a dance theater, revises the classics with British humor. We find Goat, a tribute to Nina Simone, dedicated to the artist and her living relationship with the public. Then we’ll find out cerberus, A new collaboration between Ben Duke and Rambert Ballet, a tragicomedy inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, lovers separated by the Styx. Descending into hell danced by twenty noble dancers.

Ben Duke Ballet RambertFrom February 14 to 20, 2024, theatredelaville-paris.com

Beatrice Di Tenda joins the Paris National Opera

Bellini’s opera, created in La Fenice in 1833, entered the repertoire of the Paris National Opera. True story, Beatrice Di Tenda was a wealthy woman who found herself at the head of an army and wealth after the death of her first husband. As a second marriage, in 1412, she married the Duke of Milan, 20 years her junior, who accused her of adultery. Being tortured, they decapitate him. Director Peter Sellars, who is working on an Italian opera for the first time, indicts it against barbarism and dictatorship. American soprano Tamara Wilson is highly emotional in a deliberately timeless setting.

Beatrice Di Tenda, until March 7, 2024, operadeparis.fr

The Holy Stones of Rome, a guide that traverses the city in different ways

We know the Villa Medici, its history, its legendary director, Balthus, its famous residents, starting with Ingres. Recently, writer Mathieu Lyndon in his bookand Hervelino, told the memory of the two years spent in Rome with Hervé Guibert. Another work that has just been published. Holy stones of Rome or 20 walks from the Villa Medici. Writer Pierre Adrien and photographer Thierry Buet set out, each on their own, to seek out the stones of Rome, where every ruin seems sacred. The result: a poetic and above all lively walk.

Saint Peter of Rome, Pierre Adrian, Thierry Bouët, editionsjonglez.com