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Matteo Michelini presents 78 daily journals created at Thomas Hirschhorn’s Simone Weil Pavilion, tracing an ongoing exchange between writing, artistic practice and lived experience. Readings from Denkraum, his intimate notebook published alongside the journals, are paired with a live sound creation by Androo. The project reflects on the slow accumulation of daily forms, where text becomes both document and artistic gesture. It also frames publishing itself as a site of creation, memory and preservation.
Traktor presents an intimate evening with a lean trio: Brooks Giger (double bass), Anthony Dietrich Buclin (trombone) and Dominic Egli (drums). The set foregrounds close musical conversation, contrasting lyrical lines with rhythmic immediacy and open textures. The musicians navigate between composed motifs and spontaneous interaction, creating moments of tension and release in a concentrated, exploratory format. The performance is presented with the support of a local association offering the performance space free of charge.
Conservator Nathalie Strasser guides a focused tour of select works on paper from the Jean Bonna collection, assembled over more than thirty years. The presentation traces drawing across techniques and supports — from preparatory sketches and prints to pastels and watercolours — revealing shifts in material practice and visual language across nearly five centuries. Emphasis is placed on technique, materiality and historic context to deepen understanding of the medium’s formal and conceptual evolution.
In French.
FURTHER AFIELD
Step into a playful, circular world where two actresses transform a child’s bedroom into a stage of discovery. Through a choreography of bodies and sounds, they animate toys and invite little ones to enter dreamlike universes full of surprises, gentle poetry and sensory adventures. This luminous, mischievous creation celebrates the joy of experimenting and the beginnings of self through play.
In French. Kids ages 0-3.
Quinceañeras is a durational performance created and performed by Colombian artists Estefanía and Luisa, who examine the ambivalence of the quinceañera ritual. Combining movement, symbolic staging and intimate scenography, the piece interrogates colonial legacies and the boundaries of gendered rites of passage. Through choreography and poetic gestures they transform ritual into acts of resistance and self-affirmation, proposing new modes of feminine representation and collective memory within contemporary performance.
Adapted freely from Maryse Condé and Emily Brontë, this theatrical adaptation follows Razyé and Cathy across three generations in a post-emancipation Guadeloupe. Directed by Anne Monfort, the production probes themes of racism, passion, pride, social violence, vengeance and fatalism through a visceral, rhythmic staging. The ensemble uses sparse, evocative design and intense physical interplay to reveal how inherited trauma shapes desire and retribution.
In French.
Emergentia 2027 brings together the next generation of choreographers from Geneva and beyond in a two‑week festival of new performance and research. Conceived and produced by three Geneva organizations, the program juxtaposes site-specific creations, international residencies, open studios revealing works-in-progress, and embodied workshops and conversations. Performances feature artists such as Isam Abad Montalvo, Sami Lea Samira Bernath, Oscar M. Damianaki, Efthimios Moschopoulos and Soraya Leila Emery, alongside collaborative projects and emerging voices.
With PavillonADC & TU-Théâtre de L’Usine.
Matteo Michelini presents 78 daily journals created at Thomas Hirschhorn’s Simone Weil Pavilion, tracing an ongoing exchange between writing, artistic practice and lived experience. Readings from Denkraum, his intimate notebook published alongside the journals, are paired with a live sound creation by Androo. The project reflects on the slow accumulation of daily forms, where text becomes both document and artistic gesture. It also frames publishing itself as a site of creation, memory and preservation.
Traktor presents an intimate evening with a lean trio: Brooks Giger (double bass), Anthony Dietrich Buclin (trombone) and Dominic Egli (drums). The set foregrounds close musical conversation, contrasting lyrical lines with rhythmic immediacy and open textures. The musicians navigate between composed motifs and spontaneous interaction, creating moments of tension and release in a concentrated, exploratory format. The performance is presented with the support of a local association offering the performance space free of charge.
Conservator Nathalie Strasser guides a focused tour of select works on paper from the Jean Bonna collection, assembled over more than thirty years. The presentation traces drawing across techniques and supports — from preparatory sketches and prints to pastels and watercolours — revealing shifts in material practice and visual language across nearly five centuries. Emphasis is placed on technique, materiality and historic context to deepen understanding of the medium’s formal and conceptual evolution.
In French.
FURTHER AFIELD
Step into a playful, circular world where two actresses transform a child’s bedroom into a stage of discovery. Through a choreography of bodies and sounds, they animate toys and invite little ones to enter dreamlike universes full of surprises, gentle poetry and sensory adventures. This luminous, mischievous creation celebrates the joy of experimenting and the beginnings of self through play.
In French. Kids ages 0-3.
Quinceañeras is a durational performance created and performed by Colombian artists Estefanía and Luisa, who examine the ambivalence of the quinceañera ritual. Combining movement, symbolic staging and intimate scenography, the piece interrogates colonial legacies and the boundaries of gendered rites of passage. Through choreography and poetic gestures they transform ritual into acts of resistance and self-affirmation, proposing new modes of feminine representation and collective memory within contemporary performance.
Adapted freely from Maryse Condé and Emily Brontë, this theatrical adaptation follows Razyé and Cathy across three generations in a post-emancipation Guadeloupe. Directed by Anne Monfort, the production probes themes of racism, passion, pride, social violence, vengeance and fatalism through a visceral, rhythmic staging. The ensemble uses sparse, evocative design and intense physical interplay to reveal how inherited trauma shapes desire and retribution.
In French.
Emergentia 2027 brings together the next generation of choreographers from Geneva and beyond in a two‑week festival of new performance and research. Conceived and produced by three Geneva organizations, the program juxtaposes site-specific creations, international residencies, open studios revealing works-in-progress, and embodied workshops and conversations. Performances feature artists such as Isam Abad Montalvo, Sami Lea Samira Bernath, Oscar M. Damianaki, Efthimios Moschopoulos and Soraya Leila Emery, alongside collaborative projects and emerging voices.
With PavillonADC & TU-Théâtre de L’Usine.
Matteo Michelini presents 78 daily journals created at Thomas Hirschhorn’s Simone Weil Pavilion, tracing an ongoing exchange between writing, artistic practice and lived experience. Readings from Denkraum, his intimate notebook published alongside the journals, are paired with a live sound creation by Androo. The project reflects on the slow accumulation of daily forms, where text becomes both document and artistic gesture. It also frames publishing itself as a site of creation, memory and preservation.
Traktor presents an intimate evening with a lean trio: Brooks Giger (double bass), Anthony Dietrich Buclin (trombone) and Dominic Egli (drums). The set foregrounds close musical conversation, contrasting lyrical lines with rhythmic immediacy and open textures. The musicians navigate between composed motifs and spontaneous interaction, creating moments of tension and release in a concentrated, exploratory format. The performance is presented with the support of a local association offering the performance space free of charge.
Conservator Nathalie Strasser guides a focused tour of select works on paper from the Jean Bonna collection, assembled over more than thirty years. The presentation traces drawing across techniques and supports — from preparatory sketches and prints to pastels and watercolours — revealing shifts in material practice and visual language across nearly five centuries. Emphasis is placed on technique, materiality and historic context to deepen understanding of the medium’s formal and conceptual evolution.
In French.
FURTHER AFIELD
Step into a playful, circular world where two actresses transform a child’s bedroom into a stage of discovery. Through a choreography of bodies and sounds, they animate toys and invite little ones to enter dreamlike universes full of surprises, gentle poetry and sensory adventures. This luminous, mischievous creation celebrates the joy of experimenting and the beginnings of self through play.
In French. Kids ages 0-3.
Quinceañeras is a durational performance created and performed by Colombian artists Estefanía and Luisa, who examine the ambivalence of the quinceañera ritual. Combining movement, symbolic staging and intimate scenography, the piece interrogates colonial legacies and the boundaries of gendered rites of passage. Through choreography and poetic gestures they transform ritual into acts of resistance and self-affirmation, proposing new modes of feminine representation and collective memory within contemporary performance.
Adapted freely from Maryse Condé and Emily Brontë, this theatrical adaptation follows Razyé and Cathy across three generations in a post-emancipation Guadeloupe. Directed by Anne Monfort, the production probes themes of racism, passion, pride, social violence, vengeance and fatalism through a visceral, rhythmic staging. The ensemble uses sparse, evocative design and intense physical interplay to reveal how inherited trauma shapes desire and retribution.
In French.
Calema’s brothers bring a warm blend of soulful vocals, pop melodies and Afro‑Portuguese rhythms. Their music balances intimate ballads and uplifting anthems, driven by close harmonies and rhythmic guitar patterns. Expect a performance that moves between tender emotion and contagious energy, highlighted by nuanced arrangements and heartfelt delivery. The duo’s commanding stage presence invites close listening and joyful participation, offering an evocative journey through love, identity and rhythmic tradition.
Kino is an intimate, atmospheric independent film that traces the fragile intersections between memory and desire. Through lingering compositions, grainy textures and a measured, contemplative pace, the narrative follows a small ensemble as they negotiate loss, longing and quiet acts of repair. The film favours observational performances and visual storytelling, inviting the viewer into moments of emotional ambiguity and sensory detail rather than explicit resolution.
In French.
Sunday, June is a Hispano-Swiss band shaping warm, nostalgic psych-pop through vaporous layers, shimmering guitars and melodies that settle with gentle persistence. Their album Sun Glitter and Other Reflections received critical praise and led to tours across Switzerland, France and Spain. Their second album, recorded at Chapel Studios with producer Andy Savours, is forthcoming. On stage the group blends intimate textures and luminous hooks to create an enveloping, melancholic yet luminous atmosphere.
Choreographed by Soraya Leila Emery, Coming Soon reimagines Ingres’s La Grande Odalisque through a playful, subversive lens. A single performer shifts between tableaux—seductive, mischievous, defiant—using grotesque exaggeration and theatrical excess to unsettle the orientalist gaze. Sparse objects, bold gestures and a keen sense of timing create alternating moments of intimacy and farce, opening space for new narratives of desire and agency. Created in collaboration with Emergentia and local partners, the work feels simultaneously imminent and elusive.
Presented within the Emerentia festival, this evening gathers three original short dance pieces by Shereya, Joce and Uma. Inspired by literary short stories, the program uses compact narrative forms to probe storytelling through movement, confronting the codes and bodies of institutional contemporary dance. Each 30-minute piece shifts tone and atmosphere, alternating intimate gestures and bold choreographic risk to explore memory, desire and afterlives of the party. The work favours concentrated dramaturgy and physical immediacy.
For its eighth edition, Le Fumigène brings together two contrasting improvisation formats shaped by student talent and quick-fire invention. On Friday, a high-energy match pits the LuDi Île-de-France against Laituge, with an unpredictable referee turning every scene into a playful challenge. On Saturday, Deus Ex Machina shifts into long-form storytelling, where improvisers build a full world from a staging concept imposed by the game master. It is an inventive, collaborative celebration of theatrical spontaneity and ensemble risk-taking.
In French.
Directed by Jean Bellorini in collaboration with Yang Hua Theatre, this staging reimagines Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince with the title character portrayed by a Chinese actor. The production blends French and Mandarin dialogue with live music by singers from China’s independent scene. Actors François Deblock and Marc Plas perform alongside a cast that shifts between a childlike prince, an ancient reciter of poems and fantastical cosmic inhabitants. The staging mixes song, poetry and intimate theatricality, exploring friendship and human connection.
In French and Mandarin.
Emergentia 2027 brings together the next generation of choreographers from Geneva and beyond in a two‑week festival of new performance and research. Conceived and produced by three Geneva organizations, the program juxtaposes site-specific creations, international residencies, open studios revealing works-in-progress, and embodied workshops and conversations. Performances feature artists such as Isam Abad Montalvo, Sami Lea Samira Bernath, Oscar M. Damianaki, Efthimios Moschopoulos and Soraya Leila Emery, alongside collaborative projects and emerging voices.
With PavillonADC & TU-Théâtre de L’Usine.
Matteo Michelini presents 78 daily journals created at Thomas Hirschhorn’s Simone Weil Pavilion, tracing an ongoing exchange between writing, artistic practice and lived experience. Readings from Denkraum, his intimate notebook published alongside the journals, are paired with a live sound creation by Androo. The project reflects on the slow accumulation of daily forms, where text becomes both document and artistic gesture. It also frames publishing itself as a site of creation, memory and preservation.
Traktor presents an intimate evening with a lean trio: Brooks Giger (double bass), Anthony Dietrich Buclin (trombone) and Dominic Egli (drums). The set foregrounds close musical conversation, contrasting lyrical lines with rhythmic immediacy and open textures. The musicians navigate between composed motifs and spontaneous interaction, creating moments of tension and release in a concentrated, exploratory format. The performance is presented with the support of a local association offering the performance space free of charge.
Conservator Nathalie Strasser guides a focused tour of select works on paper from the Jean Bonna collection, assembled over more than thirty years. The presentation traces drawing across techniques and supports — from preparatory sketches and prints to pastels and watercolours — revealing shifts in material practice and visual language across nearly five centuries. Emphasis is placed on technique, materiality and historic context to deepen understanding of the medium’s formal and conceptual evolution.
In French.
FURTHER AFIELD
Step into a playful, circular world where two actresses transform a child’s bedroom into a stage of discovery. Through a choreography of bodies and sounds, they animate toys and invite little ones to enter dreamlike universes full of surprises, gentle poetry and sensory adventures. This luminous, mischievous creation celebrates the joy of experimenting and the beginnings of self through play.
In French. Kids ages 0-3.
Quinceañeras is a durational performance created and performed by Colombian artists Estefanía and Luisa, who examine the ambivalence of the quinceañera ritual. Combining movement, symbolic staging and intimate scenography, the piece interrogates colonial legacies and the boundaries of gendered rites of passage. Through choreography and poetic gestures they transform ritual into acts of resistance and self-affirmation, proposing new modes of feminine representation and collective memory within contemporary performance.
Adapted freely from Maryse Condé and Emily Brontë, this theatrical adaptation follows Razyé and Cathy across three generations in a post-emancipation Guadeloupe. Directed by Anne Monfort, the production probes themes of racism, passion, pride, social violence, vengeance and fatalism through a visceral, rhythmic staging. The ensemble uses sparse, evocative design and intense physical interplay to reveal how inherited trauma shapes desire and retribution.
In French.
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