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On Saturday, November 25th, 2023, time will be suspended: for the time of a night, unfold your wings to fly and discover the wonders of the École Normale Supérieure during its traditional nocturnal Gala! The evening will take place in the historic building at 45 rue d'Ulm, adorned of its most sumptuous attire.

The red carpet will be rolled out for everyone, and it won't be easy to choose among the plethora of activities, artistic events, and gatherings to take part in!

To people of all ages, the ENS dance clubs will offer initiations to waltz, rock or other ballroom dances. Numerous concerts, shows and exhibitions will be spread throughout this extraordinary evening, from the dazzling dance show to the professional jazz concert, without forgetting the DJ mixing set and the unpredictable improvisation cabaret.

La Nuit probably has more facets than there are stars to light it, and will amaze you with countless surprises for the five senses that will transcend this endless winter: a great buffet, a choir, a fanfare, exhibitions, tastings,... merry festivities!

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Prices and ticketing

Pre-sales will open on Monday, November 6th at 45 rue d'Ulm, in the main hall from 12:00 to 14:00. An online ticketing service is also open.

COF member Student Other
Entry (pre-sales) 15€ 20€ 35€
With buffet +12€ +12€ +12€

The buffet will be partly vegetarian. Be careful though, buffet entries are limited, so book your ticket quickly !

Student price concerns any person who owns a student card, including students outside the ENS!

Ticket Online ticketing service

Program of the Gala

buffet 🍽️ Buffet 25/11/2023 20:00 25/11/2023 21:30 Pôt A savory and sweet buffet, partly realized by the cooking club of the ENS. It will be followed at 9:15pm by a speech marking the beginning of the party.
foodtruck 🌯 Chez Nicos 25/11/2023 22:00 26/11/2023 3:00 Pôt A crêpe-maker from Rue Mouffetard, Chez Nicos, comes with delicious sweet and savory crepes. Only accepting cash.
theatre 🎭 Theatre: Le Clyt' 25/11/2023 21:30 25/11/2023 23:00 Théâtre Nicole Loraux When Clytemnestre, a woman almost like you and me, starts to dream, the Greek tragedy meets cabaret, the nightmare becomes reality and the woman who is struggling with patriarchy believes becoming queen of her own show: Le Clyt'. Discover the adaptation of the Choreophores of Eschyle by the Libre Artibtre Band in a show mixing play, music, singing and dance.

This is a French theatre play.
nimpro 🥸 N’improtquoi 25/11/2023 23:30 25/11/2023 24:30 Salle Dussane La Nuit is coming: it's for living our imagined cinema. Humour and imagination are clashing on stage, by the chance of meetings and the joy of words.

Come discover our poetic, dramatic or goofy stroeis in plays and brand-new scenes that will reveal themselves only for a Night.

This is a French improv theatre play.
madame-klamm 🎬 Chez Madame Klamm Short Film 26/11/2023 1:00 26/11/2023 1:45 Salle Dussane
fanfare 🎷 L’Ernestophone (brass-band) 25/11/2023 23:15 26/11/2023 0:15 Courô In the middle of the Nuit, the powerful sound of the ENS brassband will echo through the Courô. While the pop instrumentals meddle with brass band rhythms, the last winged visitors take off once more. The faithful Ernests, them, stay to enjoy the show. Behold the brassband-show of the Ernestophone!
banda 🎷 Banda (brass-band) 26/11/2023 0:30 26/11/2023 2:00 Courô The BandarrêtdurgENS, it's a piece of the South-West in Paris, an occasion to discover or rediscover the charms of its particular music, a concentration of jovial conviviality. The banda is a group of happy street music players, practicing wind and percussion instruments.
kfet 🔊 K-Fêt Electro Boum Party 25/11/2023 23:00 26/11/2023 4:00 K-Fêt Join the crows of the Boum in K-Fêt all night long, to be moved to a world where emotions and music become one, where the primitive boom boom fuses with electronic beeats to make you travel through space, in hell and in paradise. Techno, Trance and many genres that unravel from them will be at the party.
jomz-galois 🎻 Jomz 25/11/2023 21:30 25/11/2023 22:15 Amphithéâtre Évariste Galois Folk/Balkanic Music
funk-galois 🎷 Funk ENS 25/11/2023 22:15 25/11/2023 23:00 Amphithéâtre Évariste Galois Funk
mykzyb-galois 🎸 Mykzyb 7 25/11/2023 23:00 25/11/2023 23:45 Amphithéâtre Évariste Galois Rock
harpe-sea 🎼 Duo Sing-Harp 25/11/2023 21:30 25/11/2023 21:40 SEA
rcpp-sea 🎶 RCPP 25/11/2023 21:40 25/11/2023 22:00 SEA Rock
small-talk-sea 🎸 Small Talk 25/11/2023 22:00 25/11/2023 22:45 SEA Rock
gues-what-sea 🎹 Guès What 🎙 25/11/2023 22:45 25/11/2023 23:45 SEA Fusion Jazz
surconflexe-sea 🥁 Sûrconflexe 🎸 25/11/2023 23:45 26/11/2023 01:00 SEA Rock
concert-rap 🎙️ Rap Concert 26/11/2023 1:00 26/11/2023 2:00 SEA Who said that the rap is a marginalized genre in the ENS? For this 2023 edition, La Nuit de l'ENS offers a rap concert from Lerkyo, a rapper from the ENS who many of you already know for his showcases in K-Fêt or in SEA. A polyvalent artist who touches Drill, Trap or evem Boum Bap, Lerkyo will assure you a fiery atmosphere with catchy choruses, kicking verses and a very personal universe. Spare your energy, as you will jump!

For this occasion some other rappers will be exceptionnally invited to feature alongside Lerkyo. Bangers, surprises, exclusive titles are programmed.

Whether you are a rap enthousiast, artistically curious, or simply willing to spend your night with a crazy ambiance, everyone is welcome to the largest hip-hop event of ENS Ulm!!!
boum 🔊 Boum 26/11/2023 2:00 26/11/2023 4:00 SEA What's better than to sway and sing until breaking your voice on the best hits of all time to end this Nuit in beauty? If it is in your plans, then join the Boum in SEA and you will be served Titanium and Everytime We Touch until 4am!
tala 🗣 Tala 25/11/2023 21:30 25/11/2023 22:00 Salle des Actes The choir of the "tala" chaplaincy of the ENS is happy to present its now traditional "concert of the Nuit of the ENS": some fifteen minutes of Gregorian chants and holy a cappella polyphony, putting the Advent liturgy in the spotlight.
choeur 🗣 ENS Choirs Concert 25/11/2023 22:15 25/11/2023 23:15 Salle des Actes The ENS choirs invite you to an a cappella concert where you will be able to listen to the three ensembles that rhythm the musical life of ENS. Planned are: pieces from composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, from the North and elsewhere: Helldén, Rautavaara, Stenhamma, Tormis... The concert will be of various energies and you will have the opportunity to hear the three choirs that make up the association: the Great Choir, the equal voices hearts Choir, as well as the Vocal Ensemble.
spectacle-danse 💃 Danse Show 25/11/2023 21:45 25/11/2023 22:45 Gymnase
r4t 🕺 4-stroke Rock - Initiation 25/11/2023 23:00 26/11/2023 0:00 Celan Four-stroke rock (or four-stroke dance) is a social couple danse, easy to access and quickly gratifying, with a large student community, very well practiced in Paris. Four-stroke rock is a young danse, influenced by contemporean musical evolutions, and is dansed on a wide variety of musical genres: there is something for everyone!

It is the initiation of 4-stroke rock.
soiree-rock 🕺 4-stroke Rock - Party 26/11/2023 0:00 26/11/2023 4:00 Celan Four-stroke rock (or four-stroke dance) is a social couple danse, easy to access and quickly gratifying, with a large student community, very well practiced in Paris. Four-stroke rock is a young danse, influenced by contemporean musical evolutions, and is dansed on a wide variety of musical genres: there is something for everyone!

It is the dance party of 4-stroke rock.
salsa 💃 Salsa 25/11/2023 23:30 26/11/2023 3:00 Gymnase For a touch of sunlight in the heart of the Parisian greyness, nothing better than a well rythmed salsa! The salsa club gives the opportunity to discover and practice Cuban salsa (the most dansed), but also discover Puerto-Rican salsa, bachata, styling... In a light-hearted mood, it is the right time to learn at your rhythm the fundamentals of this dance, and also to gain hip-movements that, without a doubt, will light the dancefloor on fire!
valse 💃 Waltz 25/11/2023 23:30 26/11/2023 4:00 Salle des Actes Barle back from the dance show in the gymnasium, the Waltz club will give an initiation in the somptuous Salle des Actes, 45 minutes to make one's first right turns before jumping in a playlist that ranges from the classics of Strauss and Waldteufel to pop and rap, with a bit of accordion music and some movie scores. No matter your mastery of waltz, lead or follow, let you go and come spin, invite, be invited, watch and dream, surrounded by decors created for the event by art students from the Georges Sand high school.
r6t-init 🕺 Swing Rock (6 strokes) - Initiation 25/11/2023 23:30 26/11/2023 0:30 Salle des Résistants You like jazz, rock'n roll, swing and vintage?

Come discover this happy and rhythmic danse that is swing rock!

It is the initiation to swing rock..
r6t 🕺 Swing Rock (6 strokes) - Party 26/11/2023 0:30 26/11/2023 4:00 Salle des Résistants Come dance to the end of the Nuit on a playlist mixing rock, swing and jazz specifically tailored for the event!

It is the dance to swing rock..
tango 💃 Tango Party 25/11/2023 21:30 25/11/2023 23:30 Salle des Résistants What is tango?
Far from the stereotypes and the prejudiced ideas, the tango is before anything else a meeting, an exchange between two dancers that begin with the re-discovery of a daily move: walking. A cadened walk, with subtil variations, embossed by an imperciptble connection. Hands and feet games, and looks on a dance that has been able to cross time, to absorb atmospheres of different epochs and introduce new tendencies whil keeping the immutability of the bandoneon tempo...

Coming a first time by curiosity,
Once more for the conviviality,
And maybe (who knows?) stay like we do because you will have become passionate!

You now only have to jump into it! Come and join us from 9:30pm in salle des résistants. An initiation will be given by the ENs tango club at 10pm and followed from 10:30pm to 11:30pm by a tango ball with live concert music played by two argentinian guitar players.
ddr ⬆️ Dance Dance Revolution 26/11/2023 0:45 26/11/2023 2:00 Amphithéâtre Évariste Galois But, what is DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)?
It is a dance game played on generally rhyhmic musics, which shows arrows scrolling on rhythm on screen. These arrows match to those on the game mat, that are to be hit at the right time.
karaoke 🎤 Karaoke 26/11/2023 2:00 26/11/2023 4:00 Amphithéâtre Évariste Galois In order to beautifully end the evening, what's better than a wonderful Karaoke to run wild and spend what little voice you have left? Let go of the formality and come sing loud and wrong in a wonderful amphitheatre, on musics chosen by the audience!
stand-photo 📸 Photo Booth 25/11/2023 22:00 26/11/2023 1:00 Monument aux morts
ecocampus 🌱 Ecocampus Exposition and Raffle 25/11/2023 20:00 26/11/2023 4:00 Salle Cavaillès
expo 🖼️ Exposition 25/11/2023 20:00 26/11/2023 4:00 Petit Pôt A triple exposition containing:
- Lego mosaics,
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photos From the lakes and mountains of the Connemara to the contrasted reliefs of the Alps, as well as the coasts of Brittany and Normandy, this exhibition offers three landscape triptics, nine sky views allowing you to admire nature through a unique angle.

- dichroic paintings.
chill 🛋 Relax Time 25/11/2023 20:00 26/11/2023 4:00 Salle Beckett

Practical information

Bars: WARNING: it will only be possible to pay using a system of consumption tickets, of 1€ and 3€ value at the bars. It will be possible to buy these tickets using cash during the evening.

Entry and exit: It will not be possible to enter the Gala after 2AM. Be careful : if you exit the Gala, you will not be allowed to enter again.

Checkroom: A free checkroom will be available at the Pôt all night long and plaids will be at disposal.

Catering: The buffet requires prior registration, with a limited number of seats. A foodtruck will also be present all evening in the libraries' courtyard to sell food. Bringing your own food is not allowed.

Drinks: In the barnum and in the basement of the libraries' building, bars will be selling champagne, wine and fruit juice all night long. Beer and cider will also be available in K-Fêt. It is forbidden to bring your own drinks, whether they contain alcohol or not.

Souvenir photos: A photo booth will be present in the war memorial throughout the evening.

Dresscode: Regarding the tricky issue of clothing, our motto is "be comfortable!" Gala attire is entirely appropriate for the situation: the majority of participants will be wearing suits or evening gowns, and raving about everyone's gorgeous outfits is part of the wonder of the Gala. So this is your chance to get out your best clothes, but the most important thing is to come as you feel like: in evening clothes, in everyday clothes or even disguised. In a word, feel comfortable in your outfit!

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How to come?

Location 45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris

Metro line 7
Place Monge
RER B
Luxembourg
Bus line 24
École Normale Supérieure
Bus line 21 Bus line 27
Feuillantines
Night bus line 14 Night bus line 21 Night bus line 122
Auguste Comte

Contact us

Email responuit[arobase]ens[point]fr

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