Latitudes Contemporaines

About

A festival founded in northern France (Hauts de France region) focusing on new forms of live performance where the body is a primary component. Held over three weeks in June across Lille, Loos, Roubaix, and Villeneuve d'Ascq, the festival provides a platform for artistic approaches committed to aesthetic, sensitive, and relational research with audiences. It emphasizes experience, curiosity, trans-discipline, critical diversity, and creativity as an inclusive space for cultural encounters. The festival examines contemporary questions including the definition of art, the body's place in society, identity, and the role of individuals as both spectators and creators. With an international dimension, it encourages intercultural dialogue and collective reflection, addressing social and political interrogations of our time through annual themed programming and mediation projects.