NeufNeuf Festival

A new chapter begins. NEUFNEUF is transforming and growing: by taking over the RING – scène périphérique, NEUFNEUF gives shape to a place of support, residency, dissemination, and thereby of research and creation.

It brings together the shared philosophies cherished by both original entities, countering the closure of a cultural space and setting in motion a positive spiral within a strained cultural and political ecosystem.

Openness and emancipation, Le Lieu, an essential venue in the Toulouse metropolis dedicated to the making of the performing arts, now turns resolutely toward movement and dance, while embracing theatre, music, circus, and performance. It envisions choreography as an artistic spectrum capable of welcoming transdisciplinarity and, in doing so, serving multidisciplinarity.

Thus, this new edition of the festival is imbued with resistance and activism, asserting itself through constant dialogue and the sharing of fundamental values, essential to our ecosystem and beneficial to our society.

This year, I invite you to shift your gaze, to move within your perceptions by questioning your practices and habits, in order to welcome the unique artistic proposals that make up this 16th edition.

Let us remain mobilized and committed to dance and the performing arts.
Have a wonderful festival,
Samuel Mathieu