Whether you’re a folklore enthusiast, a pop culture fan, or simply eager for artistic discoveries, the Carnival of Nice 2024 promises to be an unforgettable experience for all ages. Immerse yourself in the magic of these exceptional troupes!
Nice Kids Production – Les Ambianceurs
Local
Throughout the period
A bit of fantasy, a lot of energy for a good atmosphere. A cocktail for a master of ceremonies, Gilles Roche, who has been officiating for His Majesty for 10 years, dispenses information, conveys the history of the Carnival; all in an atmosphere that uninhibits the spectator to transform them into an actor of this intergenerational and multicultural celebration. Karaoke dance, or even games related to the theme, allow for transforming the spectators. To assist him in this task, a team of dancers, performers with a specific role, is added: to lead the audience into this momentary madness. This year, Delphine Lemaître (Parade of the 30th anniversary of Disneyland Paris, Mask Singer, Just Dance), will choreograph the 60 entertainers!
Toys People
Serbia
24 & 25/02
Iconic toy characters will captivate everyone at your event. The Toys People are sure to be recognized and appreciated by people of all ages. These giant, child-friendly characters form a true mobile toy installation. The artists delight in mingling with the crowd.
Blue Mirror
Serbia
24 & 25/02
The Blue Mirrors show was created in 2019 as a pantomime combined with dance elements. It’s a unique form of street theater, an interactive roaming show, and excellent entertainment suitable for any occasion. Their entire bodies are covered with hundreds of mirrors from head to toe, creating an astonishing reflective being that directs the world’s light straight onto the spectators! The blue version was introduced in 2019.
Bicycle Band
Netherlands
20 & 21/02
The Bicycle Band is not only a unique phenomenon in the Netherlands but is also present worldwide. Since 1973, the musical group has showcased their performances on stage. The Bicycle Band’s acts can be enjoyed on various occasions such as participating in fashion parades and complete shows with bike parades and parties. It all revolves around the sound of authentic and popular contemporary music. The combination of bikes, good music, and traditional Dutch costumes crafted by the brass band makes for a beautiful export product from the Netherlands.
Stelzen Art
Germany
24, 25, 27 & 28/02
Alice in Wonderland: In a dynamic performance, the story of little Alice and her colorful, fantastical world unfolds. Rabbits, flamingos, caterpillars, and the domineering Queen of Hearts with her court populate the Wonderland setting.
Flowers: In this formation, the beauty of flora and fauna comes together! Flowers and butterflies in the most dazzling colors and shapes.
Folkloric Group Pavullese
Italy
24 & 25/02
Folk dances from the group’s original regions. These dances are performed during the Carnival period, where the dancers, known as “lackeys,” wearing long hats and making bows, enhance the procession of characters and all parades in a more commendable manner.
Miss Glitter – The KOD-kodek
France
24 & 25/02
This company has transformed symbolic characters from the 80s into a street performance. These cheeky characters were commissioned in the 80s by French designer Jean Paul Goude to promote Kodak. They remained on French television for a long time, in Kodak advertisements. Even though Kodak has suffered significantly since the collapse of the Kodak empire, the brand’s prestige still exists among customers and photographers. As part of this glorious past, the KOD-kodek still exudes the carefree aura so typical of those years.
Giant Superheroes
Spain
24 & 25/02
Giant Harry Potter
Spain
27/02
Six 4-meter-high inflatable characters strolling through the streets on the theme of Harry Potter, accompanied by film soundtracks.
Giant Star Wars
Spain
2/03
Six 4-meter-high inflatable characters strolling through the streets on the theme of Star Wars, accompanied by film soundtracks.
Viva la Vida
Italy
2/03
Playful creatures weave dances in the light, bringing smiles, grace, joy, and color to life. A joyful, colorful, and light performance featuring giant colorful balloons reaching 4 meters high, elaborate and colorful costumes with a strong visual impact illuminated at night, and cheerful music used in the performance are the characteristics of the “Viva La Vida!” performance.
Rome America Marching Band
Italy/USA
2/03
A unique marching band inspired by the style and music typical of the Rome America Marching Band. Talented musicians play rock, pop, and famous soundtracks.
TG Marching Band
Italy
2/03
A parade in American style with a repertoire ranging from pop to rock and famous soundtracks.
Disney Parade
France
24, 25 & 27/02
Famous Disney characters loved by adults & children
Arteflammes Company
France
17 & 20/02
The Arteflammes company presents its fantastic bestiary! Fairy and fantastical creatures straight from the pop culture imagination, interpreted by artists to make them more lifelike than ever.
Grandioso Marching Band
Italy
27 & 28/02
Joy, youth, and happiness are what we always include in our shows and presentations. With its unique charm, Grandioso always brings a smile, happiness, and joy to the audience, resulting in numerous audience awards. The Orkiestra Grandioso Radom is the Polish champion in SHOW, MARCHING, and MARCHING PARADE. Grandioso has visited Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Russia, Belarus, Italy, France, Latvia, Spain, Romania, Greece, Denmark, Tunisia, China, and Hong Kong.
Swans
Italy
17/02
These creatures come from ancient, forgotten worlds as messengers of happy dreams, delicate visions, and rediscovered harmony. “Swans” is a performance on stilts and on the ground with mechanical wings created, designed, and built by the company, with a maximum wingspan of 5 meters. The wings open and close mechanically, allowing the performance to take place on narrower roads. The show, with its choreography and lighting effects throughout the journey, will fill the performance venue with nostalgic magic.
Flag Throwers Palio di Asti
Italy
21/02
A.S.T.A. – Group of medieval musicians and flag throwers for the Palio di ASTI (Italy).
Flag Throwers di San Lorenzo
Italy
2/03
The group was founded in 1984 at the initiative of young boys who attended the San Lorenzo church (Duomo) and wanted to participate more actively in the Palio of the Donkey and various events organized by the Borgo di San Lorenzo and the Giostra delle Cento Torri, trying to keep alive the value of past traditions through knowledge, practice, and teaching of the art of the flag. Athletic and musical preparation is constant and professional throughout the year.
Flag Throwers Principi d’Acaja
Italy
17/02
A tightly-knit group of flag throwers and musicians perpetuating the ancient art of flag throwing, promoting its culture in all its traditional, folkloric, and sporting expressions. Members train to participate in historical events, shows, and parades on a national and international level, from the Palio of the villages of Fossano to the most prestigious festivals organized abroad.
Flag Throwers Bandierai degli Uffizi
Italy
28/02
The “Banderai degli Uffizi” are the official flag throwers of Florence and Calcio Storico Fiorentino. As the sole guardians of the Florentine art of the flag, they contribute to spreading Italian culture, tradition, and folklore worldwide, through the maintenance of the most traditional and strict reenactment of “manners and ways,” both stenographic and athletic, of flag manipulation for military purposes from the Renaissance.
Rydultowy Marching Band & Dancers
Poland
24, 25, 27, and 28/02
The orchestra was founded in 1968; all members of the group work in the Rydultowy Coal Mine in the city of Rydultowy, Poland, and play music during their free time. They have been collaborating for years with a talented group of dancers. In 1990, they won the first prize at the International Brass Bands Festival in Rostock, and later, they received the Ministry of Education’s prize twice. They are well-known in Poland, Denmark, France, Italy, Ireland, Croatia, Spain, and Germany.
GuggenMusik “Rigigusler”
Switzerland
17/02
Musical parade.
Majorettes Dream Stars
Poland
20 & 21/02
Musical and dance parade.
Banda les Sans Soucis
France
24, 25 & 27/02
Musical and festive parade.
Flag Throwers Sbandieratori di Arezzo
Italy
24/02
Promenade.
Vive – Yera Teatro
Spain
17/02
Yera Teatro presents a street performance, offering something as simple as it is unusual. “Live” and live with us. Don’t watch us from the screen of your mobile phone but directly in our eyes. Through their actions, the characters seek proximity, the here and now. They show that it is necessary to undertake a journey that, driven by the wind of the arts, takes us to ports where humans become emotionally independent of technology. Step out to find yourself, live yourself, listen to yourself, and be surprised by the infinite gifts our senses offer. Every moment, every pause is an invitation to mutual and collective pleasure between the audience and actors. Lighting and music are essential elements of this project, as a significant part of the dramaturgy relies on them while creating powerful sensory effects.
Psychodelia – Troula Animacion
Spain
24 & 25/02
Music and colors flood the streets, spirals, circles, and indeterminate shapes confuse our thoughts. One can only let go in the tumult, the party, and the networks of psychodelia. A colorful show with slightly crazy, psychedelic characters.
Ballet Ana Botella
Spain
Reinas 21 & 24/02, Dos Culturas 20, 24, 25 & 27/02
Parade of 20 dancers with a musical float. Two costumes planned for this edition.
Contre-temps – Cie Danka
France
2/03
“DANKA ON TOUR” Russian singer from the 70s, Eurovision finalist. A pop star with disproportionate proportions goes on tour in search of a new audience. A mobile and luminous machinery. Dancers move around a mobile studio in motion. The soaring of a trapeze artist on a mobile and autonomous apparatus that spins on its axis and rises nine meters high, hovering over the audience like a bird out of its cage.
Les graines de lumière
France
27 & 28/02
Seeds of light dance and amuse the audience. It’s a true cavalcade in the colors of the rainbow that transports us to another universe. They change color in a synchronized manner and perform scenes in both parades and fixed positions. A sound and illuminated float with a giant ball accompanies them.
Showband RSF
France
17/02
The RSF formation brings together 40 passionate musicians from Saint Fulgent (near Nantes). The president’s word: “Dynamism, musical quality, rigor, but also conviviality are the values that we wish to convey in each of our performances.”
Le Ballerine
Spain
17, 20 & 21/02
From which wonderful ballet have these dancers withdrawn? When the ballerinas perform their pirouettes, their magnificent colorful skirts move spectacularly. Clouds of tulle undulate and twirl in a synchronized or opposing manner to the sound of music. It’s not easy to maintain balance on pointe, but with the complex choreography, it will result in great success!
La Dame e la Serva
Spain
17, 20 & 21/02
Make way for the ladies of the upper class. These women love to be admired for their beautiful billowing skirts. But they really want you to bow to them because they disdain the ordinary people. Their poor servant experiences it every day. It seems they find pleasure in humiliating her and call her to perform the most trivial tasks. Does the maid really endure this treatment?
Mikado
France
17/02
The Mikado people or the breath of the living. This tribe, inhabiting a distant galaxy, decides one day to come celebrate with the Earthlings the great celebration of spring. Here are the goddesses of the wind, the genies of fire, the water nymphs, princesses and princes of the stars, and the divine luminous ones. This whole world sets itself in motion and beauty, adorned in sumptuous costumes of flamboyant colors, descending from ships floating in the sky. They dance to the sound of brass trumpets and celestial tambourines, move in formation, advance majestically, spreading joy, color, and wonder in the eyes of the spectators.
Dragon, les mondes oubliés
France
17 & 20/02
As children, we dreamed of imaginary worlds. Worlds populated by strange creatures, legendary monsters: fauns, warriors, magicians, or knights. Dragons! And then, because time starts to pass, because childhood becomes distant, we forgot. With the Dragon, see your dreams reborn… See this fantastic creature appear in cities & dive with it into the universe of our forgotten worlds.
Origin, le gorille
France
27/02
“Origin,” to the sound of drums, on a primitive & wild rhythm, the gorilla advances in the urban jungle. Powerful & mysterious, it observes with curiosity the crowd around it and makes its way through buildings and humans, afflicted to discover this world of concrete & the frivolity of man bent over his phone. Origin brings you back to the essentials, to your primal instinct, free from technology and pretense, on an enchanting beat paced by percussionists.
Aquatica & les Aquavélos
France
2/03
At the bottom of the oceans, there are universes whose existence we do not suspect. Universes populated by mysterious creatures. Strange shapes! Unexpected colors! Dive with us into a bright & fantastic world. Listen to the sweet music of silence & see these graceful mermaids in their iridescent bubble, see these flying jellyfish with long dancing trains. See these elegant fish. Dive with us into Aquatica & discover the world of the abyss!
Ô Loup
France
20 & 24/02
“Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Maybe you, it’s not us? See how, elsewhere, we keep going. Tra la la la! (Na)!” Everyone gathers around him to celebrate his friendliness in good camaraderie. Animated by the desire to surprise the everyday and reveal its poetry, the company Archibald Caramantran plays in open spaces to meet the audience and offer them a theater of images that is both sensitive and absurd, marvelous and oversized.
Petite Fleur
France
21/02
Like her big sister Alice, Petite Fleur has a lot of imagination. Her daydreams take her to an extraordinary world. She strolls on a bed of petunias, amid colorful and graceful, mischievous and luminous flowers. Then, she befriends a family of giant white rabbits. No killjoys here, Petite Fleur will not grow up! She seems made for this world!
Effet Fleur – Cie Lilou
France
21 & 24/02
FLOWER EFFECTS “A flowery show to awaken your senses.” Messengers of meaning, each of the five flowers takes you, for a moment, into an evocation of their universe, full of poetry, whimsy, and wonder.
Mirror Crew – Pop Art Reality
24 & 25/02
Les bonbecks – Cie Ostara
France
27 & 28/02 & 2/03
“Les bonbecs” are characters straight out of the imagination on the theme of desserts. Their costumes are all adorned with hyper-realistic ice creams, pastries, candies, and other sweets. A delightful, colorful, and gourmet parade with a sweet repertoire to be enjoyed without moderation.
Féérie de princesses
France
20, 21 & 24/02
Féérie de Princesses is a family show inspired by the tales and animated films of our childhood. The swirling parade of fairy-tale dresses will take you into an enchanted world to the rhythm of the audience’s familiar songs.
Negritas Puloy
Local
21, 24, 28/02 & 2/03
Like most Carnivals, Barranquilla Carnival in Colombia is of popular inspiration. Thus, the Negritas Puloy, recently appeared in the Barranquilla Carnival parades, are inspired by the image of an advertisement for a well-known detergent at the time, in the 1970s, whose logo represented a black woman with a voluminous afro hairstyle, dressed in a red dress with white polka dots. Negritas because they are Black, and Puloy, a contraction of the expression pull-oil (remove grease), the name of the detergent used in domestic work. The black lycra costume corresponds to the color of their skin, and the umbrellas symbolize the detergent moulatresses, sensuality to which the Negritas identify. The Negritas are accompanied by the Marimondas, an emblematic character of the Carnival, which varies each year depending on trends or influences of the moment.
Pop Stars
Local
17 & 20/02
Kalice Spectacles offers you a celestial theme for a metallic and sparkling parade… A stellar holographic creation that will take you to another world filled with space fantasies… Laser & Holography from the Pop years.
Power Flowers
Local
28/02 & 2/03
Flower women born from the expression “Summer of love” in 1967… wearing flowers as a sign of non-violence, the flowers dance to the captivating rhythms of the Pop years.
Les Gros
France
17, 20 & 21/02
Les GROS, halfway between orange and pumpkin, dragonfly and sumo, seem straight out of a comic book. Everything about them exudes roundness, kindness, and joviality. Mischievous and voluptuous, contemplative and curious, Les Gros stroll through the streets and explore the landscape with a blissful smile on their lips. They see poetry in everything and have a strange addiction to kisses! Embodied by 10 seasoned actors in choral work, the playful clowns invade the city to meet the public and sometimes disperse to better reunite under an explosion of confetti. Their action is playful and magical! “Kisses, Kisses, Kisses… KISSESSSS!”
Batucada Michael Jackson
Local
17/02
The show features the king of Pop music in different aspects but mainly pays tribute to Michael Jackson, who honored Brazil by filming his music video “they don’t care about us” in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador de Bahia.
Princesses Disney – La Belle & la Bête
21 & 28/02 & 2/03
The show features Disney princesses, with the lead being the “Beauty and the Beast” couple, but the show also refers to the Queens and Princesses of Carnival.
Le Réveillon des Souris
France
27 & 28/02 & 2/03
Pop Art
Local
28/02 & 2/03
Dance parade Andy Warhol-style.
Corps & Danse
Local
Mexico Lindo
21 & 24/02
Costumes style 17e siècle
28/02 & 2/03
Immerse yourself in the world of POP CULTURE and admire our various carnival groups inspired by this beloved culture! Our artists, dressed in breathtaking costumes, will make the audience at the Nice Carnival vibrate with their rhythm, joy, and exotic choreographies! A team of professional artists to ensure an artistic performance worthy of the greatest carnivals in the world, in our beautiful city of Nice!
Exotica Danse – Conte de fées
Local
17, 21 & 27/02 & 2/03
Exotica Dance presents its princesses in crown dresses accompanied by their princes. A real fairy tale!
Association Let it Sine – Pop Art
Local
17, 20 & 27/02 & 2/03
The Let It Shine company pays tribute to Andy Warhol by celebrating Pop Art. Costumes in flashy colors, extravagant and flirtatious women.
Association Swing’n’Show – La Dance de la Pop Culture
Local
17, 20 & 27/02 & 2/03
Association Riviera Artist – Les Fantastiques
Local
17/02 & 2/03
“The Fantastiques” from Riviera Artist will enchant young and old alike. Extravagant costumes, high-level artists, staging by choreographer Yvana Verbecq will make the audience dance at the Nice Carnival 2024!
Troupe de Cosplayers – GEC PACA
Local & France
Le 17/02
Parade of the 501st Legion French Garrison.
LSC – Light Saber Cie
Local
Le 17/02
La Ciamada Nissarda
Local
17 & 25/02
Nice la Belle
Local
24 & 25/02
Promenade of traditional Nice carnival characters (maurous, cantinières, pantaï, polichinelle, arlequin…) with typical instruments in cougourdons, accompanied by a cart in the colors of Nice with sound.
Lou Caïreu Nissart
Local
25/02 & 2/03
Harmonie fanfare la Jeunesse Niçoise
Local
20 & 25/02
Fanfare Echo de la Chaumière
Local
25 & 27/02
