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26 – 28 February

Hosted by the Fédération d’Improvisation Genevoise, IMPROFOLIES gathers two visiting troupes from Belgium and France for three nights of improvisation themed around the Roaring Twenties. Each evening presents a distinct format — Destin sur Mesure, Le Gala des Vedettes and Le Grand Cabaret — blending comedy, musical pastiche and theatrical spectacle. Performers rely on quick wit, collective invention and audience choices; tokens and a spinning wheel introduce playful competition and unpredictable climaxes.

In French.

Thursday 26 February, 19:00

Performed by Nile Koetting, this live performance arises from Jade Meili Barget’s ‘First impressions’ residency and examines the fragile mechanics of perception and encounter. Using measured gestures, spatial rhythms and attentive listening, Koetting sculpts a contemplative atmosphere where bodily detail and silence carry emotional weight. The piece invites close attention to timing, texture and the poetics of presence, producing intimate tension and quiet revelation.

24 – 26 February

This holiday workshop invites children to explore Baroque music through the myth of Castor and Pollux and the opera of the same name. A musician from the Grand Théâtre de Genève will introduce participants to the viola da gamba, a key Baroque instrument, offering a hands-on, musical, and storytelling experience. The workshop is presented in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Bibliothèque de la Cité.

In French. Kids ages 8 to 12.

23 – 27 February

Pascal Laajili, lighting designer renowned for his collaborations with Valérie Lesort, Christian Hecq and the Philippe Genty company, leads this technical laboratory. The workshop investigates how light interacts with the puppet’s shifting scale, its multiple layers of reality and unique dramaturgy. Through collective experiments, participants explore lighting strategies that treat light as a play partner capable of revealing, transforming or making the object disappear. The format is workshop-focused and intended for professional practitioners.

In French.

26 February – 1 March

Directed by Francesca Bruni from a text by Adriano Bennicelli, Quattro is an Italian comedy that traces the tangled affections of four friends reuniting after fifteen years. The five-member cast — Caterina Boitani, Francesca Bruni, Antimo Natale, Marco di Teodoro and Simone Buffa — navigates a delicate balance of joy and melancholy through playful confessions, comic missteps and sudden revelations. The staging favors intimate realism and rhythmic dialogue, revealing the absurdities and fragilities of love and friendship with warmth and keen emotional precision.

In Italian, with English and French surtitles.

26 & 28 February

Tarab is a physical and sensory immersion into contemporary musical and poetic cultures of Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. Created by company Shōnen with musician Rayess Bek and choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, the collective, immersive piece brings together eight dancers from Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon, mixing social dances (dabkeh, taa’kib), contemporary gestures and live music. The performance evokes a trance-like celebration where voice, music and movement generate intense emotion. The work pays tribute to artists from Gaza and stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

26 – 28 February

Hosted by the Fédération d’Improvisation Genevoise, IMPROFOLIES gathers two visiting troupes from Belgium and France for three nights of improvisation themed around the Roaring Twenties. Each evening presents a distinct format — Destin sur Mesure, Le Gala des Vedettes and Le Grand Cabaret — blending comedy, musical pastiche and theatrical spectacle. Performers rely on quick wit, collective invention and audience choices; tokens and a spinning wheel introduce playful competition and unpredictable climaxes.

In French.

Thursday 26 February, 19:00

Performed by Nile Koetting, this live performance arises from Jade Meili Barget’s ‘First impressions’ residency and examines the fragile mechanics of perception and encounter. Using measured gestures, spatial rhythms and attentive listening, Koetting sculpts a contemplative atmosphere where bodily detail and silence carry emotional weight. The piece invites close attention to timing, texture and the poetics of presence, producing intimate tension and quiet revelation.

24 – 26 February

This holiday workshop invites children to explore Baroque music through the myth of Castor and Pollux and the opera of the same name. A musician from the Grand Théâtre de Genève will introduce participants to the viola da gamba, a key Baroque instrument, offering a hands-on, musical, and storytelling experience. The workshop is presented in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Bibliothèque de la Cité.

In French. Kids ages 8 to 12.

23 – 27 February

Pascal Laajili, lighting designer renowned for his collaborations with Valérie Lesort, Christian Hecq and the Philippe Genty company, leads this technical laboratory. The workshop investigates how light interacts with the puppet’s shifting scale, its multiple layers of reality and unique dramaturgy. Through collective experiments, participants explore lighting strategies that treat light as a play partner capable of revealing, transforming or making the object disappear. The format is workshop-focused and intended for professional practitioners.

In French.

26 February – 1 March

Directed by Francesca Bruni from a text by Adriano Bennicelli, Quattro is an Italian comedy that traces the tangled affections of four friends reuniting after fifteen years. The five-member cast — Caterina Boitani, Francesca Bruni, Antimo Natale, Marco di Teodoro and Simone Buffa — navigates a delicate balance of joy and melancholy through playful confessions, comic missteps and sudden revelations. The staging favors intimate realism and rhythmic dialogue, revealing the absurdities and fragilities of love and friendship with warmth and keen emotional precision.

In Italian, with English and French surtitles.

26 & 28 February

Tarab is a physical and sensory immersion into contemporary musical and poetic cultures of Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. Created by company Shōnen with musician Rayess Bek and choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, the collective, immersive piece brings together eight dancers from Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon, mixing social dances (dabkeh, taa’kib), contemporary gestures and live music. The performance evokes a trance-like celebration where voice, music and movement generate intense emotion. The work pays tribute to artists from Gaza and stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

26 – 28 February

Hosted by the Fédération d’Improvisation Genevoise, IMPROFOLIES gathers two visiting troupes from Belgium and France for three nights of improvisation themed around the Roaring Twenties. Each evening presents a distinct format — Destin sur Mesure, Le Gala des Vedettes and Le Grand Cabaret — blending comedy, musical pastiche and theatrical spectacle. Performers rely on quick wit, collective invention and audience choices; tokens and a spinning wheel introduce playful competition and unpredictable climaxes.

In French.

Thursday 26 February, 19:00

Performed by Nile Koetting, this live performance arises from Jade Meili Barget’s ‘First impressions’ residency and examines the fragile mechanics of perception and encounter. Using measured gestures, spatial rhythms and attentive listening, Koetting sculpts a contemplative atmosphere where bodily detail and silence carry emotional weight. The piece invites close attention to timing, texture and the poetics of presence, producing intimate tension and quiet revelation.

24 – 26 February

This holiday workshop invites children to explore Baroque music through the myth of Castor and Pollux and the opera of the same name. A musician from the Grand Théâtre de Genève will introduce participants to the viola da gamba, a key Baroque instrument, offering a hands-on, musical, and storytelling experience. The workshop is presented in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Bibliothèque de la Cité.

In French. Kids ages 8 to 12.

23 – 27 February

Pascal Laajili, lighting designer renowned for his collaborations with Valérie Lesort, Christian Hecq and the Philippe Genty company, leads this technical laboratory. The workshop investigates how light interacts with the puppet’s shifting scale, its multiple layers of reality and unique dramaturgy. Through collective experiments, participants explore lighting strategies that treat light as a play partner capable of revealing, transforming or making the object disappear. The format is workshop-focused and intended for professional practitioners.

In French.

26 February – 1 March

Directed by Francesca Bruni from a text by Adriano Bennicelli, Quattro is an Italian comedy that traces the tangled affections of four friends reuniting after fifteen years. The five-member cast — Caterina Boitani, Francesca Bruni, Antimo Natale, Marco di Teodoro and Simone Buffa — navigates a delicate balance of joy and melancholy through playful confessions, comic missteps and sudden revelations. The staging favors intimate realism and rhythmic dialogue, revealing the absurdities and fragilities of love and friendship with warmth and keen emotional precision.

In Italian, with English and French surtitles.

26 & 28 February

Tarab is a physical and sensory immersion into contemporary musical and poetic cultures of Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. Created by company Shōnen with musician Rayess Bek and choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, the collective, immersive piece brings together eight dancers from Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon, mixing social dances (dabkeh, taa’kib), contemporary gestures and live music. The performance evokes a trance-like celebration where voice, music and movement generate intense emotion. The work pays tribute to artists from Gaza and stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

26 & 28 February

Tarab is a physical and sensory immersion into contemporary musical and poetic cultures of Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. Created by company Shōnen with musician Rayess Bek and choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, the collective, immersive piece brings together eight dancers from Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon, mixing social dances (dabkeh, taa’kib), contemporary gestures and live music. The performance evokes a trance-like celebration where voice, music and movement generate intense emotion. The work pays tribute to artists from Gaza and stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

26 – 28 February

Hosted by the Fédération d’Improvisation Genevoise, IMPROFOLIES gathers two visiting troupes from Belgium and France for three nights of improvisation themed around the Roaring Twenties. Each evening presents a distinct format — Destin sur Mesure, Le Gala des Vedettes and Le Grand Cabaret — blending comedy, musical pastiche and theatrical spectacle. Performers rely on quick wit, collective invention and audience choices; tokens and a spinning wheel introduce playful competition and unpredictable climaxes.

In French.

25 – 28 February

Choreographic performance by Israel Galván and Mohamed El Khatib, Israel & Mohamed confronts religious heritage and family history through visceral dance-theatre. Drawing on Galván’s upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness and El Khatib’s roots in a devout Muslim family, the two performers negotiate identity, ritual and artistic freedom. Conceived and performed by Mohamed El Khatib and Israel Galván, the creative team includes Fred Hocké (scenography), Pedro León (sound), Zacharie Dutertre (video) and Micol Notarianni (costumes). Produced by Zirlib and IGalván Company.

In French.

Saturday 28 February, 21:00

Led by pianist Gabriel Zufferey, the quartet explores jazz as a living, intergenerational conversation. Drawing on spontaneity and ancestral avant-gardes, the music moves between luminous improvisation and intimate interplay: Domi Chansorn’s drums propel rhythmic waves while Alex Allflatt’s bass and Killian Perret-Gentil’s guitar weave harmonic threads. The repertoire favors reappropriation of collective languages, yielding moments of warmth, tension and release that invite attentive listening and communal resonance.

26 February – 1 March

Directed by Francesca Bruni from a text by Adriano Bennicelli, Quattro is an Italian comedy that traces the tangled affections of four friends reuniting after fifteen years. The five-member cast — Caterina Boitani, Francesca Bruni, Antimo Natale, Marco di Teodoro and Simone Buffa — navigates a delicate balance of joy and melancholy through playful confessions, comic missteps and sudden revelations. The staging favors intimate realism and rhythmic dialogue, revealing the absurdities and fragilities of love and friendship with warmth and keen emotional precision.

In Italian, with English and French surtitles.

Saturday 28 February 2026, 20:00

Sébastien Tellier, the eccentric icon of the electro-pop scene, is set to perform at the Alhambra as part of the Antigel Festival. Famous for hits like “La ritournelle” and “Divine”, Tellier returns with an exciting new album, “Kiss The Beast”, signaling a move back to pop after his experimental ventures.

26 – 28 February

Hosted by the Fédération d’Improvisation Genevoise, IMPROFOLIES gathers two visiting troupes from Belgium and France for three nights of improvisation themed around the Roaring Twenties. Each evening presents a distinct format — Destin sur Mesure, Le Gala des Vedettes and Le Grand Cabaret — blending comedy, musical pastiche and theatrical spectacle. Performers rely on quick wit, collective invention and audience choices; tokens and a spinning wheel introduce playful competition and unpredictable climaxes.

In French.

Thursday 26 February, 19:00

Performed by Nile Koetting, this live performance arises from Jade Meili Barget’s ‘First impressions’ residency and examines the fragile mechanics of perception and encounter. Using measured gestures, spatial rhythms and attentive listening, Koetting sculpts a contemplative atmosphere where bodily detail and silence carry emotional weight. The piece invites close attention to timing, texture and the poetics of presence, producing intimate tension and quiet revelation.

24 – 26 February

This holiday workshop invites children to explore Baroque music through the myth of Castor and Pollux and the opera of the same name. A musician from the Grand Théâtre de Genève will introduce participants to the viola da gamba, a key Baroque instrument, offering a hands-on, musical, and storytelling experience. The workshop is presented in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Bibliothèque de la Cité.

In French. Kids ages 8 to 12.

23 – 27 February

Pascal Laajili, lighting designer renowned for his collaborations with Valérie Lesort, Christian Hecq and the Philippe Genty company, leads this technical laboratory. The workshop investigates how light interacts with the puppet’s shifting scale, its multiple layers of reality and unique dramaturgy. Through collective experiments, participants explore lighting strategies that treat light as a play partner capable of revealing, transforming or making the object disappear. The format is workshop-focused and intended for professional practitioners.

In French.

26 February – 1 March

Directed by Francesca Bruni from a text by Adriano Bennicelli, Quattro is an Italian comedy that traces the tangled affections of four friends reuniting after fifteen years. The five-member cast — Caterina Boitani, Francesca Bruni, Antimo Natale, Marco di Teodoro and Simone Buffa — navigates a delicate balance of joy and melancholy through playful confessions, comic missteps and sudden revelations. The staging favors intimate realism and rhythmic dialogue, revealing the absurdities and fragilities of love and friendship with warmth and keen emotional precision.

In Italian, with English and French surtitles.

26 & 28 February

Tarab is a physical and sensory immersion into contemporary musical and poetic cultures of Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. Created by company Shōnen with musician Rayess Bek and choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, the collective, immersive piece brings together eight dancers from Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon, mixing social dances (dabkeh, taa’kib), contemporary gestures and live music. The performance evokes a trance-like celebration where voice, music and movement generate intense emotion. The work pays tribute to artists from Gaza and stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

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Cool fact: The e-MEG app serves as a digital twin of the permanent exhibition, providing an audio guide and detailed descriptions along with photographs of all displayed objects.

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Cool fact: The MAMCO is the epicenter of the “Nuit des Bains”, held three times a year.  During this event, the district around the museum is transformed into a large gallery and attracts thousands of art lovers and sightseers each night.

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Cool fact: On the first Sunday of each month, the Ariana Museum opens its temporary exhibitions to the public.

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