Tuesday 27 October, 19:30

As We Are — Joséphine / Bantu

Booking Required

Choreographed and performed by Germaine Acogny and Gregory Maqoma, this evening pairs a powerful solo invocation of Joséphine Baker with Bantu, a response piece created with artists from Vuyani Dance Theatre and the École des Sables. The program interrogates memory, exile and inherited identity through raw physicality, layered gestures and stark theatrical lighting. Intimate and wide-ranging, the two works converse on reappropriation and resilience, shifting between solo intensity and communal choreography.

Avenue de l'Ain 60

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Photo Credit: DR

Thursday 8 October, 20:00

Fatoumata Diawara

Performances

Salle Communale d'Onex

Fatoumata Diawara blends traditional Malian Wassoulou music with contemporary electronic and pop textures on her new album Massa. Her intense voice and hypnotic energy carry songs that explore origins, national history and personal memory, addressing themes of family, motherhood and resilience while advocating for women’s rights and peace. The single Djanne fuses ancestral rhythms with modern production, and Diawara’s performance invites a vibrant, danceable journey that celebrates identity and remembrance.

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8 – 10 October

Le Repas

Performances

Théâtre du Grütli

Directed by Gabriel Álvarez, Le Repas revives two flagship pieces from his company’s repertoire for the 40th anniversary of Studio d’Action Théâtrale and pays homage to playwright Valère Novarina. A cosmogonic feast staged with the audience at table, the performance devours the world through ritual, poetry and corporeal presence. It examines human voracity, collective memory and the fate of what we ingest, offering a sensorial, intimate and occasionally brutal theatrical journey.

In French.

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27 August – 18 October

Scène Vagabonde Festival 2026

Performances

Théâtre Cæcilia

Scène Vagabonde’s seventh edition brings a compact program of contemporary theatre and music, presenting three contrasting stage works — “Par le bout du nez”, “Quadrille” and “Prima facie” — alongside a concert by Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp as part of La Bâtie-Festival de Genève. Across intimate stagings the festival favors inventive direction, close ensemble interplay and a balance of wit and intensity, offering encounters that privilege physical presence, tonal variety and rigorous dramaturgy.

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6 – 8 October

María del Mar Suárez – La Chachi / Los inescalables Alpes, buscando a Currito

Performances

Choreographed and performed by Andalusian artist María del Mar Suárez, known as La Chachi, this hybrid flamenco piece blends reverence and deconstruction of tradition with a punk expressivity. Two musicians and a singer form a driving, looping soundscape that slowly reveals La Chachi’s silhouette as she advances, her movements coiling and breaking like the music’s escalating cycles. Visceral and hypnotic, the work explores the effort to overcome the seemingly insurmountable, building tense intimacy and ritualized ascent.

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Thursday 8 October, 19:00

Bacchanales

Performances

Domaine du Château de Collex

Two bands take the stage: The Band, channeling raw 1960s–70s rock, and Latin Lovers, offering swing and Latin-infused repertoire. The programme alternates driving electric grooves and warm, danceable rhythms, with musicians trading solos and close harmonies. The sound design favors immediacy and intimacy, letting textures and dynamics shape the evening. It creates a convivial, nocturnal atmosphere where nostalgia meets rhythmic exuberance and live interplay becomes the event’s emotional core.

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8 October – 14 November

Toutes les femmes sont des aliens

Performances

Théâtre du Grütli

Told as a solo performance, this piece follows a woman as she remembers the films that shaped her life and blurs the line between cinema and memory. Through references to science-fiction sagas and cinematic archetypes — the woman-soldier, the survivor, the reluctant mother — the show probes identity, fear of change and the ways stories migrate from screen to skin. Sparse staging and intimate narration create a haunting, introspective atmosphere.

In French.

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As We Are — Joséphine / Bantu