Foreword

Whether each edition of the Festival d'Avignon is different from the other, founded on a certain diversity of viewpoints, notably due to the personality of the associate artists, contemporary creation re-mains at the core of its programming, with its risk-taking and the confidence it places in directors, choreographers and performers. Most of the artists creates works especially for Avignon and its public, which is the most intense way of questioning today's aesthetics. This "risk-taking" remains Avignon's richness, creating for the spectators, whoever they are, singular excitement as much for a revisited classic as for a new text, as much for contemporary choreography as for a visual installation experience. The Avignon Festival offers the public the pleasure of discovery combined with thinking, turning the city into a forum from which an atmosphere of engagement in its time emerges and turning the theater into a space that favors dialogue and debates, sometimes passionate, with the artists and the public.

For the 66th edition, Hortense Archambault and Vincent Baudriller have chosen the director Simon McBurney as associate artist.