Since 2016 the duo Tribade delivers sharp, feminist rap that confronts heteropatriarchy and capitalism. After a breakthrough debut (2019) and the confrontational album Dyke (2022), their 2024 release La Tregua marks clear artistic growth. They forge a raw sound blending Afrobeat, flamenco and breakbeat, pairing pointed lyrics with propulsive rhythms. On stage the pair’s confrontational attitude and vocal intensity create an explosive, cathartic atmosphere that merges protest and celebration.
Portrait is a creation by Alexandre Simon and Cosima Weiter that delves into the city through the lens of its diverse inhabitants. Combining text, acting, film sequences, and music, “Portrait” unveils a multicultural and unique Geneva. Pierre Maillet brings to life the testimonies collected by Cosima Weiter, supported by a trio of musicians under the direction of Vincent Bertholet. Filmed sequences by Alexandre Simon add depth to the staging, providing an artistic and anthropological view of the city.
In French.
Written by Julie Gilbert and directed by Lou Ciszewski, Quoiqu’il arrive. Respire. follows Joana, shaken after seeing a play about a young activist in which one of her pupils performs. Performed by Margot Le Coultre, the piece questions women’s will and capacity to fight—physically and metaphorically—and how to claim and hold space without being assigned a role. Presented in a portable, ‘portative’ form commissioned by the producing company, the staging favors close-up gestures, raw textures and a quietly collective imagination that unsettles certainties.
In French.
An original text by Virginie Despentes is brought to life by a dancer, an actor, a percussionist, and a singer. This performance delves into contemporary themes of anger, violence, and disillusionment with a fiery clarity, dark humor, and a desperate tenderness, urging for a revolution of compassion.
In French.
Baby Volcano presents a hybrid concert-performance that blends visceral rhythms, immersive imagery and a bold manifesto. The new creation fuses reggaeton, baile funk, volcanic noise and layered chant into a luminous, physical refuge where celebration becomes an act of survival and sharing. Monumental, textile-based scenography reacts to sound, shaping bodies and light into an organic landscape. The piece explores collective emotion through music, movement and theatrical writing. Creation 2026; coproduction.
United Strings of Europe revisit fairy-tale and folk soundscapes in a programme built around Stravinsky’s Divertimento from the ballet Le baiser de la fée. The ensemble is joined by violinist and conductor Julian Azkoul in a programme ranging from Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst and Bartók’s Romanian Dances to Telemann’s Gulliver travels, Atterberg’s Adagio amoroso and Grieg’s Holberg Suite. Expect vivid textures, rhythmic vitality and lyrical soloism in a chamber-orchestral evening.
Written by Penda Diouf and staged by Evelyne Castellino, LA GRANDE OURSE is an ecofeminist fable that traces a mother’s descent after a minor incident becomes criminalized. Combining video, choreographed movement and choral voices, the piece weaves police violence, racism and sexism into a hallucinatory, dystopian world where omnipresent surveillance watches every gesture. As the heroine reconnects with ancestral nature by transforming into a bear, the production evokes animal survival instinct, collective gossip and the fragile line between humanity and wildness, offering a visceral, poetic reflection on power and resistance.
In French.
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