Music to Turn our Heads Around
They did it again: they made everybody dance. With a sold-out show, Make the Girl Dance made its hip appearance at the Napoleon Bistro Lounge last February. On the basement level where this French DJ duo played, their creative sound waves made all girls – and boys – dance and have fun à la française....
La Belle Affaire
It was an afternoon of misty rain, and something unusual was happening at Kalorama Park. A small, wooden stage was being set up, and behind it rest a black, rectangular box where fun props were being laid. Discretely under a tree, Aurélien Kairo and Abderzak Houmi were going over their routine, wearing their warm-up outfits....
Sailing on Words
“If you had the possibility, imagine all the things you could change in your life”… these are the lyrics to one of the songs performed by Mathieu Barcella at the Alliance Française de Washington last April. Barcella and his guitar were framed by a window view of the sky at dusk, and in front of...
“Everyone should be able to be Catherine Deneuve”
Who would you be if you could become someone else? And why would you want to change who you are? These were some of the initial rhetorical questions that inspired Pierre Notte to produce the drama “Moi Aussi, Je Suis Catherine Deneuve” (Me Too, I am Catherine Deneuve). For two consecutive days in April, this...
