Montpellier International Dance Floor

Since its creation in 1981, Montpellier Dance Festival has been one of those very special places where the most famous choregraphers in the world like to meet on a regular basis. Montpellier has already hosted more than 300 dance companies from all the world thanks to this festival, a logical extension of the rich dance season that attracts a more and more numerous public to our city.

Date : End of June – Mid-July

Information - Tickets : 04 67 60 83 60

Address : Hôtel d'Assas, 6, rue Vieille Aiguillerie.

Web site : http://www.montpellierdanse.com

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"PRINTEMPS DES COMEDIENS"

This popular non-specific festival presents unusual theater-, circus- and world culture-related events. Every year, its party-like atmosphere, unusual taste and boundless imagination gets several hundreds viewers to dream...

Date : Mid-June– Beginning of July

Information

Tickets : 04 67 63 66 67

04 67 63 66 66

Address : 857, rue de Saint Priest

Web Site : http://www.printempsdescomediens.com

e-mail printemps@cge-ol.fr

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RADIO FRANCE FESTIVAL

Every summer, in July, Montpellier opens its buildings and gardens to almost one hundred daily concerts : operas, symphonic concerts, chamber music, young soloist recitals, jazz, concerts in the districts and hospitals, France Culture Debates... Music spreads its wings in all kinds of settings : the warm light of the sunset in the Ursulines courtyard, the cicadas in the Pétrarque gardens, the welcome air-conditioning in Pasteur and Einstein halls, the exceptional acoustics in the Corum's Berlioz Opera...

Date : 2nd fortnight of July

Information - Tickets : 04 67 more..

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BOREALIS FESTIVAL

With this festival, France's biggest electronic music meeting, techno music becomes a real art. House, jungle, hardcore, groove…, djs from all the world provide frantic dance for everyone admist out-of-this-world light works.

Date : Begining of August

Informations : 04 67 60 27 60

Réservations Fnac, France Billet Network and specialized shops

Web site : http://www.borealis-festival.com

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"FESTIVAL ATTITUDE"

The festival of European urban cultures : skate-boarding, bicycle acrobatic acts, hip-hop dance, graffiti and contemporary music.

Date : 3rd week of July

Informations – : 04 67 60 43 89

Address : NC

Web site : NC

MONTPELLIER MEDITERRANEAN CINEMA FESTIVAL

Montpellier has become the place where image wizards from all the the Mediterranean area meet every year, to show a more and more numerous public (more than 82,000 viewers in 1998) their works of art from this very ancient cultural area.

Date : End of October - Beginning of November

Informations - réservations : 04 99 13 73 73

Address : 78, avenue du Pirée

Web site : http://www.cinemed.tm.fr

CHRISTIAN CINEMA FESTIVAL

Catholics, together with Protestants, organize an ecumenical Christian Cinema Festival. Because of their special look onto life, the Man, and our Society, Christians feels interested in Cinema as a means of communication. This festival is aimed at making it easier for them to meet other people and to set up a dialogue with those who share the same love for life.

Date : From the end of March to the Beginning of April

Informations - réservations : 04 67 64 14 10

Address : 21, rue des Aiguerelles - Montpellier

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THE INTERNATIONAL GUITAR WEEKS

This event brings together professionals, music schools, the business world, associations, and the general music-loving public of the South of France, together with plenty of guitar-players, string-instrument makers, and other international top-level professionals.

Date : May,11 to May,25.

Informations - réservations : 04 67 66 36 55

Address : 3, rue Collot - Montpellier

e-mail : confluences@altavista.com