Anarchy & Archetypes

Dear friends of Panthéâtre, and of Choreographic Theater,

we would like to draw your attention to and, we hope, encourage your participation in the 2026 Myth and Theater Festival (June 30 to July 12), which will be an exceptional opportunity to take stock of some forty years of Choreographic Theater (CT below): bringing together and discussing ideas, performances, workshops, videos …

The theme of the 2026 Festival will be “ANARCHY and ARCHETYPES – in a Choreographic Theater.” These two concepts have their roots in ἀρχέ (arkhe). ARKHE-types constitute a (polytheistic) typography of primordial figures, particularly mythological ones. An-ARKHE, on the other hand, means “without arkhe”: without a figure of authority, and in particular, for us, in the dramaturgical sense: without an authoritarian author. For a CT, this is a crucial crossroads where an alchemical-type of conjunctio can occur, but just as easily an irascible and bitter ontological opposition, particularly in the Arts.

Read more here: https://pantheatre.com/-/e-MT26/