Madeleine Leclair presents a unique sound performance based on recordings from Borneo and other threatened forest environments. She creates a live mix using vinyl records from the International Archives of Popular Music at MEG and her personal collection, highlighting the acoustic richness of these habitats. This performance is a side event to the exhibition “SAUVAGES: behind the scenes of Claude Barras’s film.”
Festival Antigel transforms Geneva into an experimental cultural playground each winter, a three-week laboratory of innovation. Programming mixes renowned and emerging artists across music, performance and visual projects, revealing unexpected sites and blending disciplines. The festival foregrounds diversity and social engagement, bringing together varied audiences through bold curations. Lighting, sound and staging often shape intimate, cinematic atmospheres, while collaborative projects emphasize discovery, collective energy and the thrill of shared, ephemeral encounters.
At La Parfumerie, “VERTIGES” by Catherine Tinivella Aeschimann takes us to the base of the Eiger’s north face, where five tourists follow the climb of mountaineer Ueli Steck. Turning simple observation into an intense immersion, they experience the emotions of Steck and his partner. This piece, a blend of sports commentary and alpine storytelling, delves into our connection with achievement and performance, while also recalling the ghosts of the Eiger’s victims. Directed by Tamara Fischer, this show offers a communal and introspective experience.
In French.
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.
Cosima Weiter performs a staged reading of her autobiographical text Morte et vive, accompanied by musician Laurent Vichard whose live sound punctuates the narration. The piece moves between lyric poetry and intimate testimony, privileging the sonic textures of language and silence. Published by Les éditions Gros Textes, the performance frames memory and voice as communal experience, alternating quiet introspection and rhythmic swells to draw listeners into an embodied, resonant portrait.
In French.
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.
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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