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Óliver Laxe’s Sirāt is a hypnotic cinematic journey propelled by electronic pulses and a magnetic soundtrack by Kangding Ray. The film follows a collective adventure where music becomes an agent of attraction, moving between communal euphoria and moments of existential vertigo. Shot with immersive sound design and a patient, sensory camera, it explores desire, identity and the communal power of rhythm. Intense and meditative, Sirāt blends documentary textures and lyrical abstraction to map emotional intensities without conventional narrative anchors.
End the summer by the shore of Western Europe’s largest lake and discover the lake’s twilight life. As dusk falls the reed beds still shelter nesting birds while early migrants arrive. Stroll into the soft evening light to observe underwater meadows and the heightened activity of fish. This immersive outing blends gentle observation and sensory discovery, offering a chance to connect with the lakeshore landscape and its lively nocturnal atmosphere. Suitable for adults.
Performed and choreographed by Lisa Laurent, this solo performance is a choreography of grief. Semi-nude and accompanied only by a small table and a microphone, Laurent gives herself over to inconsolable lamentations: her movements are laboured, as if mired in her own tears, and each attempt to regain composure falters. The piece interrogates vulnerability and the grotesque dimensions of sadness, gradually collapsing the distance between performer and audience to create a space where private fragility can be looked at and shared.
In French.
J-Pat is a likable schlaps in this one-man show that blends humour and lightness. Written by Blaise Granget and Marc Zucchello and directed by Marc Zucchello, the performance features Blaise Granget and Damien Naïmi. Through virtuosic violin, rap and a taste for fine cars, the character oscillates between erudition and pop culture—from Seneca to Frida Kahlo and Frozen—building sharp social observations and personal struggles.
In French.
Organized by the Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR), this traveling project creates a giant book as a meeting space between people who have experienced exile and those who have not. It presents testimonies, images and videos that reveal personal journeys and highlight how solidarity shapes life in Switzerland. The accompanying public programme examines themes of asylum, integration and belonging through exhibitions, music, workshops and culinary events, and invites open exchange to deepen understanding and collective responsibility.
In French.
Led by Simone Aubert’s live music, this circus-music piece features acrobats for whom aerial suspension is second nature. Against an original score, performers defy gravity to weave a precise airborne choreography that balances tension and lyricism. The intimate creation (2026) lasts about 30 minutes and is designed for a family audience, suitable from age 3. The presentation blends musical texture and physical poetry without dialogue.
IASP invites artists to design evenings that bring together flavours and melodies. Neighbors and newcomers are welcome to share simple meals while listening to performances by artists from the organisation’s eclectic programme. The gathering also features a mobile kitchen serving communal dishes. The event encourages relaxed conversations, spontaneous encounters and collective listening—an open, inclusive space where people come together around food, music and friendly exchange.
Óliver Laxe’s Sirāt is a hypnotic cinematic journey propelled by electronic pulses and a magnetic soundtrack by Kangding Ray. The film follows a collective adventure where music becomes an agent of attraction, moving between communal euphoria and moments of existential vertigo. Shot with immersive sound design and a patient, sensory camera, it explores desire, identity and the communal power of rhythm. Intense and meditative, Sirāt blends documentary textures and lyrical abstraction to map emotional intensities without conventional narrative anchors.
End the summer by the shore of Western Europe’s largest lake and discover the lake’s twilight life. As dusk falls the reed beds still shelter nesting birds while early migrants arrive. Stroll into the soft evening light to observe underwater meadows and the heightened activity of fish. This immersive outing blends gentle observation and sensory discovery, offering a chance to connect with the lakeshore landscape and its lively nocturnal atmosphere. Suitable for adults.
Performed and choreographed by Lisa Laurent, this solo performance is a choreography of grief. Semi-nude and accompanied only by a small table and a microphone, Laurent gives herself over to inconsolable lamentations: her movements are laboured, as if mired in her own tears, and each attempt to regain composure falters. The piece interrogates vulnerability and the grotesque dimensions of sadness, gradually collapsing the distance between performer and audience to create a space where private fragility can be looked at and shared.
In French.
J-Pat is a likable schlaps in this one-man show that blends humour and lightness. Written by Blaise Granget and Marc Zucchello and directed by Marc Zucchello, the performance features Blaise Granget and Damien Naïmi. Through virtuosic violin, rap and a taste for fine cars, the character oscillates between erudition and pop culture—from Seneca to Frida Kahlo and Frozen—building sharp social observations and personal struggles.
In French.
Organized by the Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR), this traveling project creates a giant book as a meeting space between people who have experienced exile and those who have not. It presents testimonies, images and videos that reveal personal journeys and highlight how solidarity shapes life in Switzerland. The accompanying public programme examines themes of asylum, integration and belonging through exhibitions, music, workshops and culinary events, and invites open exchange to deepen understanding and collective responsibility.
In French.
Led by Simone Aubert’s live music, this circus-music piece features acrobats for whom aerial suspension is second nature. Against an original score, performers defy gravity to weave a precise airborne choreography that balances tension and lyricism. The intimate creation (2026) lasts about 30 minutes and is designed for a family audience, suitable from age 3. The presentation blends musical texture and physical poetry without dialogue.
IASP invites artists to design evenings that bring together flavours and melodies. Neighbors and newcomers are welcome to share simple meals while listening to performances by artists from the organisation’s eclectic programme. The gathering also features a mobile kitchen serving communal dishes. The event encourages relaxed conversations, spontaneous encounters and collective listening—an open, inclusive space where people come together around food, music and friendly exchange.
Óliver Laxe’s Sirāt is a hypnotic cinematic journey propelled by electronic pulses and a magnetic soundtrack by Kangding Ray. The film follows a collective adventure where music becomes an agent of attraction, moving between communal euphoria and moments of existential vertigo. Shot with immersive sound design and a patient, sensory camera, it explores desire, identity and the communal power of rhythm. Intense and meditative, Sirāt blends documentary textures and lyrical abstraction to map emotional intensities without conventional narrative anchors.
End the summer by the shore of Western Europe’s largest lake and discover the lake’s twilight life. As dusk falls the reed beds still shelter nesting birds while early migrants arrive. Stroll into the soft evening light to observe underwater meadows and the heightened activity of fish. This immersive outing blends gentle observation and sensory discovery, offering a chance to connect with the lakeshore landscape and its lively nocturnal atmosphere. Suitable for adults.
Performed and choreographed by Lisa Laurent, this solo performance is a choreography of grief. Semi-nude and accompanied only by a small table and a microphone, Laurent gives herself over to inconsolable lamentations: her movements are laboured, as if mired in her own tears, and each attempt to regain composure falters. The piece interrogates vulnerability and the grotesque dimensions of sadness, gradually collapsing the distance between performer and audience to create a space where private fragility can be looked at and shared.
In French.
J-Pat is a likable schlaps in this one-man show that blends humour and lightness. Written by Blaise Granget and Marc Zucchello and directed by Marc Zucchello, the performance features Blaise Granget and Damien Naïmi. Through virtuosic violin, rap and a taste for fine cars, the character oscillates between erudition and pop culture—from Seneca to Frida Kahlo and Frozen—building sharp social observations and personal struggles.
In French.
Organized by the Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR), this traveling project creates a giant book as a meeting space between people who have experienced exile and those who have not. It presents testimonies, images and videos that reveal personal journeys and highlight how solidarity shapes life in Switzerland. The accompanying public programme examines themes of asylum, integration and belonging through exhibitions, music, workshops and culinary events, and invites open exchange to deepen understanding and collective responsibility.
In French.
Led by Simone Aubert’s live music, this circus-music piece features acrobats for whom aerial suspension is second nature. Against an original score, performers defy gravity to weave a precise airborne choreography that balances tension and lyricism. The intimate creation (2026) lasts about 30 minutes and is designed for a family audience, suitable from age 3. The presentation blends musical texture and physical poetry without dialogue.
Pankaj Tiwari weaves memory, testimonies and music into The Harvest of Broken Promises, a politically charged performance that questions how agricultural progress reshapes ecosystems and rural life. Combining storytelling, folk song and myth, Tiwari performs a decolonial ecology that foregrounds farmers’ voices and resilient practices. The work blends sensitive dramaturgy with documentary rigor, creating intimate tableaux that move between lament and hope. A 2026 creation supported by the Delegation of Flanders to Geneva.
This hands-on workshop invites participants to design a flag expressing personal connections to water in the Lake Geneva bioregion. Participants are encouraged to draw on memories of rivers, streams or the lake—walks, swims and family gatherings—and to combine drawings, symbols and words. The session examines how personal narratives reveal ecological relationships and encourages reflection on the vulnerability of these places to climate change, fostering creative responses that link emotion, place and environmental awareness.
Performed by Olivier Martin-Salvan, Panique! conjures a hybrid, half-man half-goat figure whose subtle grotesquerie probes idleness, solitude and melancholy. Conceived and staged by Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre, the piece mixes sculptural elements and choreographic impulses: sudden, sometimes ribald outbursts, a reed-like flute motif and brief dance gestures that evoke a primitive, pastoral theatre. The work balances tenderness and comic unease, offering a ritualised, tactile encounter with myth and animality.
In French.
Atelier Grrr leads a hands-on scenography workshop that invites participants to become young scenographers by exploring the forest as a creative stage. The session investigates how we perceive outdoor spaces through all senses and how to design temporary installations that respond to nature. Participants experiment with listening, imagining and collective play, focusing on process and care rather than final outcomes. The workshop encourages playful collaboration and attentive stewardship of natural environments.
Choreographed by Bast Hippocrate, this intimate pas de deux traces tenderness, fusion, dependence and violence in a fragile arc toward reconciliation. Following LoveLettersOrNot (2021), Hippocrate confirms an edge‑of‑skin choreographic voice. Two performers navigate a fragmented soundscape of recorded breaths and pop echoes, drifting between abandon, euphoria and vertigo. Suggesting the experience of chemsex, the piece transforms lived gay intimacy into a physical fable — burning, ambivalent and profoundly shareable.
Led by Simone Aubert’s live music, this circus-music piece features acrobats for whom aerial suspension is second nature. Against an original score, performers defy gravity to weave a precise airborne choreography that balances tension and lyricism. The intimate creation (2026) lasts about 30 minutes and is designed for a family audience, suitable from age 3. The presentation blends musical texture and physical poetry without dialogue.
Filmmaker Claude Barras and a group of artists, scientists and local associations contribute to a programme of lectures and workshops exploring creative responses to environmental challenges.
Sessions examine the links between art and nature, investigating collaborative practices, participatory workshops, guided nature walks, creative labs and exhibitions that reveal ecological themes. Attendees explore practical methods for artistic engagement, environmental awareness, community-driven conservation, and foster interdisciplinary dialogue across research and practice.
In French.
IASP invites artists to design evenings that bring together flavours and melodies. Neighbors and newcomers are welcome to share simple meals while listening to performances by artists from the organisation’s eclectic programme. The gathering also features a mobile kitchen serving communal dishes. The event encourages relaxed conversations, spontaneous encounters and collective listening—an open, inclusive space where people come together around food, music and friendly exchange.
Óliver Laxe’s Sirāt is a hypnotic cinematic journey propelled by electronic pulses and a magnetic soundtrack by Kangding Ray. The film follows a collective adventure where music becomes an agent of attraction, moving between communal euphoria and moments of existential vertigo. Shot with immersive sound design and a patient, sensory camera, it explores desire, identity and the communal power of rhythm. Intense and meditative, Sirāt blends documentary textures and lyrical abstraction to map emotional intensities without conventional narrative anchors.
End the summer by the shore of Western Europe’s largest lake and discover the lake’s twilight life. As dusk falls the reed beds still shelter nesting birds while early migrants arrive. Stroll into the soft evening light to observe underwater meadows and the heightened activity of fish. This immersive outing blends gentle observation and sensory discovery, offering a chance to connect with the lakeshore landscape and its lively nocturnal atmosphere. Suitable for adults.
Performed and choreographed by Lisa Laurent, this solo performance is a choreography of grief. Semi-nude and accompanied only by a small table and a microphone, Laurent gives herself over to inconsolable lamentations: her movements are laboured, as if mired in her own tears, and each attempt to regain composure falters. The piece interrogates vulnerability and the grotesque dimensions of sadness, gradually collapsing the distance between performer and audience to create a space where private fragility can be looked at and shared.
In French.
J-Pat is a likable schlaps in this one-man show that blends humour and lightness. Written by Blaise Granget and Marc Zucchello and directed by Marc Zucchello, the performance features Blaise Granget and Damien Naïmi. Through virtuosic violin, rap and a taste for fine cars, the character oscillates between erudition and pop culture—from Seneca to Frida Kahlo and Frozen—building sharp social observations and personal struggles.
In French.
Organized by the Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR), this traveling project creates a giant book as a meeting space between people who have experienced exile and those who have not. It presents testimonies, images and videos that reveal personal journeys and highlight how solidarity shapes life in Switzerland. The accompanying public programme examines themes of asylum, integration and belonging through exhibitions, music, workshops and culinary events, and invites open exchange to deepen understanding and collective responsibility.
In French.
Led by Simone Aubert’s live music, this circus-music piece features acrobats for whom aerial suspension is second nature. Against an original score, performers defy gravity to weave a precise airborne choreography that balances tension and lyricism. The intimate creation (2026) lasts about 30 minutes and is designed for a family audience, suitable from age 3. The presentation blends musical texture and physical poetry without dialogue.
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