Born in the black ghetto of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, and married at the age of 13, young Joséphine arrived in France and became the icon of Paris in the Roaring Twenties. A dazzling artist with extraordinary dancing and singing talents, she was the precursor of hip hop. She joined the resistance. In this show, we meet her partners (Sydney Bechet, Jean Gabin), her lovers (Paul Colin, Pépito), her husbands (Willie Baker, Jo Bouillon) and the heroes who, like her, would not hesitate to put their lives in danger to save Jews and thwart Nazi plans. She campaigned all her life against racial segregation, joining Martin Luther King, adopting 12 children of all origins and creating her rainbow tribe.

Theater: La Nouvelle Eve, Paris, France.

The Circus Phénix of Paris presents a Cuban show with 50 acrobats, dancers & musicians who perform 12 colourful scenes, giving a hybrid identity to this creation between a musical & a genuine circus show (without animals). Rigor & technicality inspired sometimes from Russians & Chinese are sublimated by the tropical joy of life irradiating these performances.

This theatrical and musical "oratorio" is a show aiming at overcoming prejudices and sterotypes about the USA, with songs and slams, based on historical texts (Chritophe Colomb, Walt Whitman, Charles Reznikoff), new ones by David Lescot and by Mike Ladd and work-songs.

Direction: David Lescot

Musical direction: Benoît Delbecq
Theater: Bouffes du Nord

This musical pays a tribute to Billie Holiday with her twenty most beautiful songs. If Duke Ellington and Artie Shaw let her sing blues and love, Billy Holiday is also known for fighting against segregation and alcohol.
Théâtre Rive Gauche Paris

Between reality and fiction, Soy de Cuba is a musical telling the
true story of Rembert Egues, legend of Cuban music and Jenny Sotolongo, singer protegee of Fidel Castro, idol of an entire people and the invented story of Ayala, young country girl who discovers the capital of dance and the love of her life, with dancers, singers and live music on stage (salsa, rumba, mambo
and reggaeton).

La Cigalle, Paris