28 – 31 October

Sami Lea Samira Bernath – Sous les montagnes

Booking Required

Centred on Sami Bernath’s embodied memories, this performance mixes Swiss popular songs, rhythmic gestures and the traditional Löffelä spoon percussion to transform everyday motions into sound. Through repetition, deformation and rhythmic saturation, familiar motifs become permeable, revealing buried and repressed memories beneath the Swiss mountains. The staging is intimate and ritualistic, alternating fragile vocal fragments and percussive textures to probe memory and collective inheritance.

In French.

Place Beatriz-Consuelo,
1206 Genève
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Photo Credit: DR

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