Radioscopie by Michèle Noiret

For more than 20 years the VIA International Festival has been breaking down artistic and geographical boundaries, in Mons and Maubeuge

The festival has established itself in Europe as a unique meetingplace where performing arts and new technologies converge and where international theatres, transboundary professionals and audiences meet each other.
In 2015, New Cinemas will be the central theme of the festival... Indeed, the 7th Art will appear in and out everywhere, in all art forms and shapes. Film will be a source of inspiration; new surfaces will be covered by projections, in interdisciplinary ways. It will open up new dimensions which the arts are incorporating more and more into movie techniques in their creative processes. In light of this trend, the 2015 edition of VIA will offer twice as many creations as usual – Children of Nowhere, the second part of Ghost Road, the theatrical road-movie of Fabrice Murgia; the dance-thriller, Radioscopies, by Michèle Noiret; the slam/mapping movie by Jean-Michel Van den Eeyden, Amnesia, about digital memories and identity, a special exhibition about this theme; and an amazing 3D movies festival for the whole family.

The European Capital of Culture is also the opportunity for the Festival to take on some new challenges, as for example with Café Europa, which will be inaugurated during the Festival. We should also mention the two digital and interactive shows by the TPO company - Bleu and Babayaga -, planned during the family weekend at the Maison Folie.

Radioscopie - Par Michèle Noiret

The starting point was an interview. The Belgian author Conrad Detrez was invited to talk to Jacques Chancel on the radio programme Radioscopie and spoke about the French-speaking Belgian identity. This was the cue for the choreographer Michèle Noiret to invent a choreographic thriller, Sommes-nous toujours de quelque part ? in which we are whisked away into parallel universes, poised between theatre, dance and cinema.

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