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Festival : Culture and tradition
Dance, Historical, Identity, Music
Dance, Historical, Identity, Music
Presentation
Artistic reunion in the heart of Ajaccio
From 23 to 25 October, Ajaccio will be vibrating to the rhythm of Ritrovu, the festival that highlights the energy and creativity of the island's music scene.
Between the Grand Café Napoléon, the Espace Diamant and the Office de Tourisme du Pays d'Ajaccio, the city becomes an artistic crossroads where music, song, dance and local productions come together. Young talent and established artists share the stage, weaving together moments of complicity and emotion.
Each show becomes an exchange, each performance a celebration of Corsican cultural identity.
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PROGRAMME
Thursday 23rd October
Dinner and show
Grand café Napoléon
Enjoy a sensory experience where gastronomy and music come together.
Each local dish, sublimated by sommelier Raphaël Pierre Bianchetti, dialogues with carefully selected wines. The music, orchestrated by Bertrand Cervera, responds to the flavours to create a perfect harmony.
An unforgettable voyage of the senses.
Friday 24th October
Corsican Dance and Song
Espace Diamant
The evening opens with the spellbinding dance of the Voci d'Isula choreographic project, created by Manon Baldi, a modern jazz dance teacher at the Conservatoire de Musique, Danse et Art Dramatique de Corse Henri Tomasi.
In four scenes, the piece pays tribute to emblematic female figures: Saveria Peri and the women of the land, pillars of memory and transmission; Colomba, literary heroine of honour and vengeance; Danielle Casanova, rebellious resistance fighter; and Patrizia Gattaceca, poet and singer, bearer of hope and contemporary creation.
The stage then welcomes the group L'Alcudina, from the Alta Rocca and Sartenais regions, accompanied by promising young voices of Corsican song, in a moment of intense sharing where tradition and new inspiration meet.
Saturday 25th October
Conference
OIT Pays d'Ajaccio
Sociologist Jean Louis Fabiani will be giving a talk on "The history and evolution of Corsican identity".
What features characterise contemporary Corsican society? What events have shaped it? Jean-Louis Fabiani's analysis is based on a historical foundation, analysing the consequences of the transformations and movements that Corsican society has undergone over the past 50 years.
Whether it's the upheavals in agriculture and the rural world, the development of tourism, the vagaries of demography, the emergence and establishment of the political and cultural demands of the autonomists or economic delinquency, the sociologist from Venaco will analyse how Corsican society has been shaped by these major developments and will attempt to envisage future scenarios for our island.
Jean-Louis Fabiani is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Central European University in Budapest and retired Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is a member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies and the Academia Europaea. He is the author of several books, including Pierre Bourdieu, un structuralisme héroïque, Clint Eastwood, Sociologie de la Corse, a new edition of which will be published in 2026, and a book devoted to Coluche.
Thursday 23rd October
Dinner and show
Grand café Napoléon
Enjoy a sensory experience where gastronomy and music come together.
Each local dish, sublimated by sommelier Raphaël Pierre Bianchetti, dialogues with carefully selected wines. The music, orchestrated by Bertrand Cervera, responds to the flavours to create a perfect harmony.
An unforgettable voyage of the senses.
Friday 24th October
Corsican Dance and Song
Espace Diamant
The evening opens with the spellbinding dance of the Voci d'Isula choreographic project, created by Manon Baldi, a modern jazz dance teacher at the Conservatoire de Musique, Danse et Art Dramatique de Corse Henri Tomasi.
In four scenes, the piece pays tribute to emblematic female figures: Saveria Peri and the women of the land, pillars of memory and transmission; Colomba, literary heroine of honour and vengeance; Danielle Casanova, rebellious resistance fighter; and Patrizia Gattaceca, poet and singer, bearer of hope and contemporary creation.
The stage then welcomes the group L'Alcudina, from the Alta Rocca and Sartenais regions, accompanied by promising young voices of Corsican song, in a moment of intense sharing where tradition and new inspiration meet.
Saturday 25th October
Conference
OIT Pays d'Ajaccio
Sociologist Jean Louis Fabiani will be giving a talk on "The history and evolution of Corsican identity".
What features characterise contemporary Corsican society? What events have shaped it? Jean-Louis Fabiani's analysis is based on a historical foundation, analysing the consequences of the transformations and movements that Corsican society has undergone over the past 50 years.
Whether it's the upheavals in agriculture and the rural world, the development of tourism, the vagaries of demography, the emergence and establishment of the political and cultural demands of the autonomists or economic delinquency, the sociologist from Venaco will analyse how Corsican society has been shaped by these major developments and will attempt to envisage future scenarios for our island.
Jean-Louis Fabiani is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Central European University in Budapest and retired Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is a member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies and the Academia Europaea. He is the author of several books, including Pierre Bourdieu, un structuralisme héroïque, Clint Eastwood, Sociologie de la Corse, a new edition of which will be published in 2026, and a book devoted to Coluche.
