The PALAIS DE TOKYO / and polimniA, with the backing of LITTLE MARC
JACOBS present
BABYDISCO/
A proposal from I COULD NEVER BE A DANCER —
25 SEP 08 –
04 JAN 09 —
BABYDISCO is project by I COULD NEVER BE A DANCER (Carine Charaire and Olivier Casamayou - conception and artistic
direction), in collaboration with Guillaume Sorge (music), Florence Doléac (object design) and Yi Zhou (video). First produced by the Villa Noailles (Hyères) in 2004, BABYDISCO is a nightclub for 3–7-year-olds. Set up in the midst of the Palais de
Tokyo's exhibition areas, it welcomes children for memorable dance sessions on
Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at every hour on the hour. On the program:
Playlists by Guillaume Sorge, original DJ sets, Colette Baby Dance Class,
workshops with reputed choreographers, artists and musicians...
FROM SEPTEMBER 2008 TO JANUARY 2009
Babydisco is a playful introduction to club land : children take possession of a
reduced-scale entirely rebuilt disco, where nightclub clichés meet a childlike
universe in an outsize plush jewellery box. In the scheduled one-hour long
sessions, groups of 12 to 15 children take control of this completely free space,
to which parents have no access, apart from a discreet glance through the door at
the beginning of the session.
This space is also an initiation to different forms of contemporary culture (design,
video, dance and music...), and can be read in different ways i.e. from the parents'
or the children's point of view. The children immediately perceive it as a ludic
environment while their parents are presented with a familiar cultural reference
reinvented by their children.
— Info
— PRESS
Dolorès Gonzalez
Tel : +33 1 47 23 52 00
presse@palaisdetokyo.com
— PALAIS DE TOKYO /
13, avenue du Président Wilson
F - 75116 Paris
Tel : +33 1 4723 5401 & +33 1 4723 3886
Fax: + 33 1 4720 1531
www.palaisdetokyo.com
Open Wednesdays, Saturdays
and Sundays. Advance booking necessary.
— Contact polimniA :
Hélène ORJEBIN : h.orjebin@polimnia.fr
Tél : +33 1 45 40 48 36
