【French May Arts Festival 2026】
Korea's Top Jazz Diva Youn Sun Nah Hits Hong Kong
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Korea’s top jazz diva Youn Sun Nah, recipient of the Officier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture, captivates audiences with a uniquely versatile voice that draws listeners into a state of pure immersion. Born into a musical family in Korea and trained in France, she moves effortlessly across jazz, chanson, rock, and classical styles. Her interpretations of Björk and Nina Simone classics carry a distinctive resonance, revealing both the quiet resilience and the explosive energy of contemporary Korean culture.
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Her artistry has earned her numerous honours, including the Echo Jazz Prize and the Jazz à Juan Révélations award, recognising her remarkable contribution to the global jazz landscape. This May, she will perform in Hong Kong with Bojan Z, France’s celebrated Balkan jazz pianist—an encounter where East meets West on a French‑styled stage.
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【Youn Sun Nah feat. Bojan Z 】
01.05.2026（Fri）8pm
Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
$580, $480, $380, $250
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Alliance Cosmique
Immersive, Poetic, Impactful Experience
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Alliance Cosmique is a breathtaking sensory journey that bridges the infinitely small and the infinitely vast. It invites audiences to pause, reconnect, and rediscover the hidden wonders within everyday life. French multidisciplinary artist Symbiose joins IUNI, an ensemble celebrated for weaving classical and electronic sound, to a gateway into an immersive inner journey. Through daring imagery, resonant music, and human‑centred digital technologies, their collaboration becomes a gentle passageway back to the open hythms of the natural world.
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30&31.05.2026（Sat-Sun）2:30pm & 5pm
Black Box Theatre, Tai Po Civic Centre
$250
Programme Details
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The Sutherland Test
Cross the Line Into VR Reality
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French artist Adelin Schweitzer teams up with Hong Kong’s Artocrite Theater to throw you into a wild experiment. Only 16 lucky humans per show get strapped into the BUD (Black Up Display) headset. Suddenly, you are not just watching. You are inside a twisted parallel world where your eyes, ears, and even your body start playing tricks on you. As things get weirder, you will realize this is not just tech. It is a mind-bending trip about perception, control, and truth. Basically, VR meets theatre and you are the lab rat.
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22-25.05.2026（Fri - Mon ）8pm
23-25.06.2026（Sat - Mon ）2pm & 5pm
Room N2, Cattle Depot Artist Villagee
$330
Programme Details
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Yekwon Sunwoo & Quatuor Elmire
East Meets West: A Virtuosic Dialogue
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Yekwon Sunwoo, the first Korean pianist to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, is renowned for his controlled yet highly stable interpretations. At the French May Arts Festival, he will present his award-winning piece, Ravel's La Valse, and join the Quatuor Elmire to perform Franck's Piano Quintet. The Paris-based Quatuor Elmire will play Debussy's String Quartet, as well as Beethoven's "Razumovsky Quartets" from their debut album, adding a French touch to this challenging repertoire.
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12.05.2026（Tue）8pm
Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall
$520, $480
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VOÛTE
An exploration of inner storms and calm after the tempest
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A breathtaking performance by CNAC, France’s National Center for Circus Arts. A French collective blending music and visual art into transformative performances. It explores conflict—internal, within a company, a society, a world. Inspiration comes from the richness of interactions with oneself and others, from the beauty of flaws, the violence of repressed or expressed emotions, those that imprison in silence, those spoken hesitantly, those that overflow until they feel unmanageable. An aesthetic of purity: an invitation to contemplate bodies that resist, struggle, debate, wait, support, and carry. An exploration of inner storms and calm after the tempest.
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8-17.05.2026（Fri - Sun）6pm - 8pm
Parade Ground, Tai Kwun
Free admission
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*No performance on 11 May 2026
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This year’s French May performing arts programmes span classical music, jazz, contemporary dance, circus, theatre, and so forth. From immersive theatre experiences combining art and technology to a deep musical dialogue between jazz singer and pianist; from contemporary dance that pushes the limits of the human body to captivating circus performances, the programme offers a diverse range of styles to suit different audience tastes.
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