Screening: Les Indes Galantes / Gallant Indies

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Radical performance of baroque opera "Gallant Indies" in French with English subtitles. Refreshments will be served.
Student helpers: Ezra Usmani, Gita Gandeslman, Nico Garmendia, Anuarite Gikonyo, and Rosemarie Sison

About the Film

By bringing together urban dance—krump, hip hop, break, voguing, etc.—and opera singing, Bintou Dembélé and Clément Cogitore reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes/Gallant Indies. From rehearsals to public performances, it is a human adventure and a meeting of political realities that we follow: can a new generation of artists storm the Bastille today?

Supported by Cultural Studies and Languages, Albertine Cinémathèque, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine, with support from the CNC / Centre National du Cinema, and SACEM / Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain.