After WATCH in 2022, and FLOUZ in 2023

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The last element of the Paradox Palace tryptic will be KRUSH, the third creation at the Théâtre du
Châtelet and PARADOX STADIUM, a free festival.
It will group all the participants and speakers in the Paradox Palace rhizome – prisoners and former
prisoners, Ephad residents, people from the Paris Samusocial (Welfare Services), 7 year old pupils and
APHP (French Social Security) patients.
Authors, illustrators, lawyers, prison wardens, doctors, nurses, economists, social workers, actors,
acrobats, musicians, sportsmen and women...
Not forgetting the virtuoso pianist Shani Diluka and electro creator Matias Aguayo.

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Production: Paradox Palace

Coproduced with the Théâtre du Châtelet.

 

Krush

The link and relationship between romantic and family crushes and

krashes will be tested. A musical creation amidst J.S. Bach’s fugues

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Creation, writting and directing Olivier Fredj

Assisted de NN

Lighting design, Nathalie Perrier

Set design, Thomas Lauret

With the assistance of Frédéric Llinares for the costumes

Musical coordination, Shani Diluka

Electronic music, Matias Aguayo

Arrangements, Abel Saint Bris

Shani Diluka, piano

Matias Aguayo, electro mix

NN, percussion

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Emma Foucher-Créteau, Jacques Mazeran, Fanny Sintes,

Edouard Gameiro, Nadir Chebila

Prison inmates and former Paradox Palace inmates.

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The Paradox Stadium

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An artistic festive festival on life’s trials.
A ‘live’ radio station on the Place du Châtelet for two days

to present panel discussions, sports events, slams, concerts,

conferences, and debates...The culmination of three years of

Paradox Palace, with its texts, music, innovations, and

encounters.

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With the collaboration of the National Jazz Orchestra

Conceived, written and directed by Olivier Fredj

Artistic coordination and presentation, Nicolas Lafitte

Artistic collaboration, Arthur Hauvette

Technical coordination, Elsa Lilamand

The National Jazz Orchestra

Shani Diluka, piano

Matias Aguayo, electro mix

8 former prisoners, residents of the Huguette Valsecchi

Ehpad, residents of the Samusocial Popincourt – Les

Alphabètes, musicians from Watch, the gymnastics club

En Avant ! of Paris…

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Direction of writing workshops:

Sylvie Ballul, Yann Apperry, Judith Perrignon, Donatien Châteigner, Célia Houdart et Loïc Froissart.

 

 

For almost twelve centuries, the Olympic Games represented sports events, but also social and cultural
events, the most important event in the Ancient Greek calendar.

 The classic foundations of Greek
Democracy has always been an inspiration, namely the ideas of Pericles, presenting the arts and sports events as annual gatherings where citizens did their democratic duty.

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My desire to create the events that make this gathering possible finds its roots in this conception, this way of rediscovering and reinforcing this civic and democratic feeling.

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are an ideal opportunity to associate the Arts and the Olympic Games
once again.

Allowing neither respite nor compromise, we must try to unite our different origins and traditions to aim
at the shared experience of a really civilized society, Getting to know our origins and returning to the
foundations of our society imply vital knowledge that we must share to understand the present and build the future.

It is this desire that drives me to create this project, In the same way the five Olympic rings
represent the meeting of the five continents, the aim of this creation would be to get professional
actors and representatives of everyday society to reflect, discuss, and debate on the subjects of education, health, culture, justice, and solidarity, all this during the whole of the Games.

 

Just as the stadium is the place where sports events take place and are celebrated during the Games, the stage would be the place for reflection, for a plural society, the place for relationships. It would be an open space for all.