The Jogging Festival makes art chase after the sporting gesture

Du 21 to 24 May 2026., the Temple Square Jogging, the unclassifiable festival where art sweats and sport thinks, is back with its conceptual sneakers for its sixth edition. Here, there are no timed performances, but rather bodies in contact, unconventional gestures, a stage that offers a critical cardio workout.

In this hybrid programming, some rendez-vous are essential. First HIT OUT Parini Secondo x Bienoise: jump rope as percussion, breath as the engine, a piece poised between endurance and poetry. Also not to be missed, Coin Operated Jonas&Lander's strange rodeo on mechanical horses where the audience becomes the unpredictable trigger of chaos.

On the dance side, Pretty Things Catherine Gaudet's work mesmerizes with its metronomic precision, while Duchesses François Chaignaud and Marie-Caroline Hominal's work transforms the hula hoop into an almost shamanic ritual. More direct, R. OSA Silvia Gribaudi's work dynamites body norms with humor and power.

Finally, it's impossible to ignore Pool Party Marine Colard's playful, deviant aquatic fantasy, or the final roller dance, a grand collective release to close this arty marathon. Between performances, an exhibition dedicated to emerging artists, and participatory workshops, the Jogging festival confirms that in Paris, thinking about the body remains a discipline in its own right.

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