Le bal littéraire du Festival

This year, join us at the Académie du Climat for a collective story around ecological issues and the living world.

Conceived by Fabrice Melquiot and Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, the Bal littéraire is a must-attend fixture of the Paris en toutes lettres festival. The principle: a handful of authors gather the day before, at dawn, around a litre of coffee and a playlist of their favourite hits, to invent a story together, often a funny one! On the evening of the ball, the audience members-turned-dancers are invited to discover this brand-new story and to dance wildly to every hit.

The Bal littéraire is presented in partnership with the Académie du Climat

LITERARY BALL TEAM, FABRICE MELQUIOT CREATION WORKSHOP:

Marc-Antoine Cyr, a kid from the Americas, chose France to spend his adult life. He carries in his pocket a diploma in dramatic writing from the National Theatre School of Canada, and on the tip of his tongue a few traces of accent. His career as a writer has taken him from Montreal to Rome, from Strasbourg to Quimper, from Marseille to Grenoble, from Beirut to Mexico City, and from Lyon to London. He teaches dramaturgy at the École du Nord and at the Ensatt, and has co-directed the Jamais Lu Paris festival at Théâtre Ouvert since 2015. In 2027 he will publish his first novel, Trois charpentes, with Notabilia.

Emmanuelle Destremau, aka Ruppert Pupkin, sings electropop ballads, sculpts a fragile rock sound, and swings between mockery and passion. She has released three albums and an EP, and composes for theatre and film. Beneath this second skin as a singer lies Emmanuelle Destremau, actress, director and screenwriter, notably of the series Extra-Lucide, available on OCS. She also creates shows that blend music, video and theatre. She has written around thirty plays for the stage, several of which have been published. She has also published the account Border Ghosts, carnet de route dans les territoires palestiniens.

Julien Guyomard is an author and director, and co-founder of the company Scena Nostra. He writes and directs, among others, Naissance, Syndrome U, Brèves du futur, Les Méritants and Y a plus qu'à…