Date: September 13, 2013 - January 12, 2014

Website: http://www.festival-automne.com/?lng=en

The Festival d’Automne à Paris (Paris Autumn Festival) is a festival of contemporary arts, embracing and combining different art forms – theatre, music, dance, the visual arts and film. The 42nd Edition runs 13 September 2013 – 12 January 2014.

The Festival presents works that stand as references, involving approaches of an experimental nature by, inter alia, commissioning artists to create original works. Every year, from September to December, the Festival features over forty events attracting a total audience of more than 100 000.

This year’s international programme has a particularly strong focus on Japan and South Africa, as well as artists from Europe, Latin America and North America.

From Japan, the Festival d’Automne à Paris presents:

• Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Accelerated Buddha is showing at the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent (10 October – 26 January)
• Toshiko Okada performances ‘Ground and Floor‘ at the Pompidou Centre (9-12 October) and Current Location (14-19 October)
• Sugimoto Bunraku Sonezaki Shinjû performances at the Théâtre de la Ville (10-19 October)

Also on the programme:

• Eternal Dress, a performance with Tilda Swinton, conceived by Olivier Saillard, Director of Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, at the Paris Fashion Museum 20-24 Nov

Paris Autumn Festival – FULL Season Programme