The rock event of this school is the Patti Smith private sphere

Restart in marching band for the live show: the theatre, especially, knows in January-February a "second entry" bloated giving whirling disease. The great classics of the Repertoire are to the party, but mounted by rather iconoclastic directors. Expected so much of the "game of love and chance" of Marivaux revisited by Michel Raskine - January 12 to February 6 "modernising" of texts - the Odeon (01 44 85 40 40), great. Echoing the "thread leg" signed Deschamps at the Comédie-Française, Alain Françon staged four short pieces of Feydeau: "On serving baby", "Fire the mother of Madam", "Leonie is on vacation" and "But did walking you so not all nude", that can be seen in two evenings or integral Saturday, at the Théâtre Marigny (0 892 222 333). The show, created in Strasbourg, is the poster four months in Paris - January 11 to May 7. Two Shakespeare otherwise baulks with the ' brit'touch ", is:"The storm", in physical Declan Donnellan with Russian actors and lyrical version is presented to seals - Gemini (01 46 61 36 67) from January 26 to February 13. "The comedy of errors", less frequently performed the great Will exhibit, is mounted by Dan Jemmett with a French distribution at the Bouffes du Nord (01 46 07 34 50), from January 19 to February 12. Add to this mini-sélection two promising contemporary performances: "Ithaca" of the German Botho Strauss, directed by Jean-Louis Martinelli to des Amandiers in Nanterre (01 46 14 70 00) with Charles Berling, from January 7 to February 12. and "the night just before the forests" of Koltès with Romain Duris, created in Châteauvallon and Valencia last June by Patrice Chéreau and Thierry Thieû Niang, at the Théâtre de l'Atelier (01 46 06 49 24) for 32 performances from January 19.

On the side of classical music, three operas of weight will charm lovers. First "Giulio Cesare" Handel staged by Laurent Pelly, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm with including Natalie Dessay in the Opera Garnier (0 892 899 090), from January 17. Then "the Barber of Seville" by Rossini, under the baton of Jean-Christophe Spinosi (Emilio Sagi staging) at the Châtelet (01 40 28 28 40), from 22 to 28 January. And finally "Werther" by Massenet, staged by the tenor Rolando Villazon and led by Leopold Hager, with Arturo Chacón-Cruz and Karine Deshayes, at the Opera de Lyon (0 826 305-325), from January 24 to February 7. On the side of French song, Julien Clerc offers a show "Symphony" in Paris at the Palais des congrès (01 40 68 22 22), 13-15 January - a mixture of standards and new songs réorchestrés. The rock event of this school, is the "Patti Smith private sphere". It is held at the Cité de la musique (01 44 84 44 84) and the Salle Pleyel (01 42 56 13 13) from 17 to 22 January.

The dance begins the year 2011 almost to small not Two January not February 4 ": and "Suresne City Dance" (01 46 97 98 10), the festival that mixes hip hop and contemporary dance, from 7 to 30 January - with features, the latest creation of Blanca Li "Elektro Kif" (all a products).