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See also

• Facebook BnF Arts du spectacle
• Music
• Collection Auguste Rondel
• Aide à la recherche dans la collection Rondel
• Sélection de fonds entrés depuis 2006 au département des Arts du spectacle

Catalogs

• Catalogue général de la BnF
• Catalogues imprimés

Where to consult the documents ?

• Performing arts department
• Iconography at the Prints and Photographs Department

Ask a librarian

SINDBAD is a free virtual reference service providing document references and factual information. Ask a librarian (SINDBAD)

Performing arts

Stage and street, costumes and masks, mime and puppetry...

• Theater
• Opera
• Dance, ballet
• Mime
• Puppetry and shadow theater
• Circus
• Street theater
• Music-hall, songs, cabaret
• Celebrations

Street theater

From fairground theater to the most recent festivals

Les Orbilys by the Compagnie d'Outre Rue. Festival Eclat à Aurillac, 2006.

© Joël Verhoustraeten.

The Richelieu Library (Site Richelieu) holds books and journals, engravings, programs, and files of press cuttings on street theater.

More specifically, the Performing Arts department holds the following:

• photographs of street theater from 1981 to the present day by Joël Verhoustraeten
• drawings of costumes dreamed up by Jean-Paul Goude, and costumes created for the performance at the Bicentennial of the French Revolution 
• costumes designed and created by Philippe Guillotel for the opening ceremony of the 1994 Olympic Games in Albertville, directed by Philippe Decouflé.
  

Digital resources

Les Signets de la BnF - Théâtre de rue

Friday, June 22, 2012