Art

Prepare to be surprised (from April 16th through April 25th)

Prepare to be surprised (from April 16th through April 25th)
16 April 2010
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The Alliance Française has been sharing short-film screenings with our community in the Washington area, but seldom have they brought animated films to those creativity-hungry screens. But the time h [...]

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Cinema

Tabarly

Tabarly
2 April 2010
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Since the beginning of time, the relationship between human beings and nature has been a complex one. Whether through construction or exploration, humans have always tried to dominate nature. And natu [...]

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Coups de cœur

Matignon enfin démystifié

Matignon enfin démystifié
9 December 2009
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Quelle bonne surprise fut la mienne en constatant que mes collègues ont programmé parmi nos projections à Letelier Theater un documentaire intitulé L'enfer de Matignon.  L'institution à laquelle [...]

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Dance

A Memory of Paris: At the National Opera Ballet

A Memory of Paris: At the National Opera Ballet
8 February 2010
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One evening in December 2007, I slid into the metro car as I did almost every day. This evening, however, the train was taking me to the Palais Garnier, Paris’s ornate neoclassical opera house. I ha [...]

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Food

An Evening of Cognac

An Evening of Cognac
13 April 2010
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Before the guests arrived, cognac glasses were already delicately set on the table on the first floor of the AllianceFrançaise de Washington. It was a Thursday evening, but the warm air of what had b [...]

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Interviews

A Night of Jazz

A Night of Jazz
24 November 2009
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Three French artists brought a wonderful world of music and video the night of November 6th, filling The Mansion at Strathmore with jazz tunes from the 1930s through the 1950s. Guillaume de Chassy, [...]

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Music

When Emotion Transcends the Language

When Emotion Transcends the Language
13 April 2010
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She is very expressive, and her face itself can tell a story. In the artistic circles of poetry and performance, she is known as Queen Ka. After her presentation "Delirium Verbal / Slam en Musique" at [...]

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Petits monstres

Hip hop lesson made in Lyon

Hip hop lesson made in Lyon
24 November 2009
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Du hip hop, des rires et aucun bobo! L’atelier de hip hop à Randle Highlands Elementary School fut une rencontre inattendue et inoubliable entre trente-six adorables petits monstres et le danse [...]

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Random

Anti-smoking campaign

Anti-smoking campaign
28 February 2010
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The last campaign against the nicotinism in France is already polemic: one sees there young men and young girls, a cigarette with the mouth, with a hand posed on the head, this hand seeming to belong [...]

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Theater

Stories in the Streets of D.C.

Stories in the Streets of D.C.
3 June 2010
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We see people walking on streets all the time. There is hardly anything  unusual about that. But what about a defined procession of people,  sharing nothing in common but a spark of interest in the [...]

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