Focus on CommonLAB
From October 22 to 25, 2025, the MC93, in collaboration with the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and the Théâtre L’Échangeur, is organizing a highlight featuring the artists of CommonLAB.
Since 2023, 25 young artists based in Europe who live and explore otherness on a daily basis have been supported in the development of their projects during collective research residencies. Some have been produced or co-produced as part of CommonPROD. This focus is an opportunity to share their stories at different stages of creation.
Alongside the presentation on October 23 at the MC93 of the 8 CommonLAB 2025 artists, 3 (co)produced projects will also be shown: Kabylifornie by Agathe Yamina Meziani for a world premiere, Mother Tongue by Lucía García Pullés and Carré Arrondi by Hang Hang, as well as a work in progress, Mon Odyssée by Jin Xuan Mao, and the PaperPlanes performance by Pankaj Tiwari.
CommonLAB 2025 Stops at Cairo and Bobigny...
After two residencies at Alkantara Lisbon in May and Africologne in June, the artists will meet again from October 8 to 19 in Cairo, as part of the D-CAF festival organized by Orient Productions. They will discover the local art scene, visit Downtown Cairo and Fayoum, participate in practical and research workshops, including 2 days with Egyptian director Laila Soliman, and enjoy individual studio time.
CommonLAB 2025 will end up at the MC93 from October 20 to November 1. In dialogue with dramaturge Youness Anzane, the first week will be devoted to the final presentation on October 23.
During the second week, the artists will take part in a workshop by Adeline Rosenstein and Prince Sadjo Barry and will meet with Jin Xuan Mao and Lucía García Pullés, two artists from CommonLAB 2024.
Some News about the CommonPROD and CommonMOB Projects...
Building on CommonLAB dynamics, CommonPROD proposes to artists various forms of companionship, from residencies to support, co-production or production.
Several supported projects will premiere this Fall:
Kabylifornie by Agathe Yamina Meziani
→ October 22 to 25 at MC93, as part of the Focus
Co-produced by MC93 - Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme financed by the European Union.
A Halles de Schaerbeek production.
Galactic Crush II: Into the Cold by Stephanie Kayal
→ October 7 to 18 at Théâtre de la Vie (Brussels)
→ November 4 and 5 at Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles (Brussels)
→ November 22 and 23 at Alkantara (Lisbon)
Co-produced by Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and Alkantara, as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme financed by the European Union, Théâtre de la Vie (Brussels), Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk), Plateforme Parallèle (Marseille).
A Hiros production, supported by Ettijahat - Independent Culture, Workspacebrussels, Espace Urbain – ISAC.
We at the Nightclub Suffer Together by Diego Bragà
→ November 14 and 15 at Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal)
An Alkantara production, co-produced by afriCOLOGNE, as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme financed by the European Union.
With support of OPART, E.P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon and TalentLAB 2025.
C!S-TEM Error by Nadim Bahsoun
→ November 9 and 10 at Next Art Festival Budascoop, Kortrijk
Co-produced by Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and Riksteatern, as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme funded by
the European Union.
Cadences Créoles Dix Mille Fois Dédoublées by Inés Sybille Vooduness
→ November 14 and 15 at Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal)
An Alkantara production, co-produced by Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and MC93 - Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, as part of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme financed by the European Union.
Two other CommonPROD projects are currently in development: Kongo Chroniques by Azani V. Ebengou, and Mon Odyssée by Jin Xuan Mao that will be shown as a work-in-progress at the MC93 Focus on Saturday 25 October.
By offering mobility grants, CommonMOB contributes to enhance the visibility of iconic performances that question notions of diversity.
Three of the four supported projects will be shown in the Fall.
Silence, ça tourne by Chrystèle Khodr and Nadim Deaibes
Based on the true story of Eva Ståhl, a Swedish nurse and survivor of the massacre at the Palestinian camp of Tel Al Zaatar, Silence, ça tourne is a reflection on the traces left by witnesses to history’s great upheavals.
→ November 18-22 at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles (Brussels)
→ November 26-30 at the MC93 (Bobigny)
umuko by Dorothée Munyaneza
Invoking the umuko, the healing tree, the ancestral tree, the guardian of stories, Dorothée Munyaneza invites four young artists, poets, dancers, musicians, from the Rwandese scene who navigate between the legacy of the past, the precariousness of everyday life, and a future that belongs to them.
→ November 14 and 15 at Culturgest, as part of the Alkantara Festival (Lisbon)
Galactic Crush II: Into the Cold by Stephanie Kayal
With a subtle dark humour, Brussels-based Lebanese artist Stephanie Kayal recounts this interstellar journey towards unknown icy lands, where memories of home and family lead to a possible forgiveness for the world’s failures.
→ November 22 and 23 at Alkantara (Lisbon)
Common Stories has been initiated by the Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, MC93 I Bobigny (France), in partnership with the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles I Brussels (Belgium), Alkantara, Culturgest I Lisbon (Portugal), africologneFESTIVAL I Cologne (Germany), Riksteatern I Stockholm (Sweden), in association with TR Warszawa I Warsaw (Poland) and in 2025 with Orient Productions (Cairo, Egypt) and Les Récréâtrales (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso).