Léa Pohlhammer brings Orlando to life in a monologue adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s renowned novel. This performance weaves storytelling, music, and direct audience engagement to delve into themes of interpretative freedom, identity, and femininity. Featuring a minimalist set and lighting inspired by William Turner, it challenges social norms and explores our relationship with gender, employing quotes from the novel, humor, and personal anecdotes.
In French.
Written by Elisa Shua Dusapin and directed by Ludovic Chazaud, Le vieil incendie delicately explores the fragile bond between two sisters separated by time, silence, and absence. Fifteen years after their estrangement, they reunite in the family home destined for demolition, where childhood memories and buried wounds resurface. Blending words, gestures, and silence, this poetic and sensory play reveals what still connects us — to loved ones, to places, and to shared memory.
In French.
Anne Paceo, a gifted composer and drummer, kicks off the Spectacles Onésiens season with her new album, Atlantis. Inspired by oceans and seas, this musical tale promises a poetic and moving journey filled with serenity and dreams. Supported by the Migros Pour-cent culturel Genève, this performance is a highlight of the JazzContreBand festival.
The 28th edition of the Chopin Festival in Geneva invites you to indulge in the tender, passionate, and noble music of Chopin. Exceptional performers and outstanding chamber musicians will bring his masterpieces to life in the city’s concert halls.
Choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana brings together four performers with diasporic roots to explore themes of identity, connection, and individuality through dance and song. Titled Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna (Malagasy for comparison, transmission, rivalry), the piece celebrates shared cultural expression. It is accompanied by the podcast Rouge cratère, a personal and political reflection on Madagascar, colonization, and the embodied experience of diaspora.
In “L’Aquarium,” Calaferte delves into the monotony and routine of a couple after many years together. Set during a fall evening, this comedy highlights how former passionate partners become unable to surprise each other, trapped in their daily lives much like fish swimming in circles in an aquarium. The humor emerges from everyday situations, skillfully captured by the author.
In French.
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