Led by principal conductor and artistic advisor Tugan Sokhiev, this concert pairs powerful orchestral spectacle with intimate cello virtuosity. Michiaki Ueno takes the spotlight in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, while Berlioz’s Carnival Romain and a suite from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (assembled by Sokhiev) frame a programme of sweeping melodic drama and refined detail. The performance balances monumental gestures with lyrical nuance, offering a rich sonic narrative.
Two short plays by Anton Chekhov staged by Tibor Ockenfels and Flavie Tapparel, presented as compact dramatic machines where romantic comedy masks escalating confrontations between desire, affection and material interest. Performances rely on precise physical timing, terse exchanges and a lean, playful design to reveal the simmering violence behind courtship rituals. The three actors — Estelle Bridet, Matteo Prandi and Raphaël Vachoux — inhabit heightened character types that shift between farce and darker comic truth, creating a sharply observed, kinetic evening.
In French.
Choreography and performance by Victoria Dauberville, this dance piece follows a ballerina who literally escapes her music box to discover a new world and, ultimately, herself. Like a doll shaped by strict rules, she abandons prescribed steps and meets other dancers and styles, inventing her own movement. The staging plays with expectation and humour, questioning what it means to dance with others and alone, and opening space for surprise and tenderness.
Matthieu Llodra and Valentin Liechti reunite as a duo to revisit their electronic roots in a set that blends improvised performance with the rhythmic energy of House, Jungle and Broken Beat. Drawing on fifteen years of collaboration, they offer a dance-focused homage to 1990s club culture, where live interplay and spontaneous textures meet propulsive grooves and layered samples. The evening promises an exploratory, club-oriented soundscape that balances nostalgia with improvisational freedom.
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.
Directed by Gabriel Sparti, Menace Chorale follows an amateur town choir drawn into a tightening ideological mechanism under a charismatic new conductor. The piece uses vocal textures and staged rehearsals to contrast luminous harmonies with the unsettling meanings behind their repertoire, sketching a miniature society where desire, ambition and collective pressure calcify into authoritarian dynamics. Through subtle disruptions, layered readings and meticulous sound and lighting textures, the production feels at once funny, eerie and incisively political.
In French.
Double Jeu is a sharp, playful improvisation show built around strategy, split-second choices and mutual misdirection. Each performer receives a secret mission and must weave it discreetly into the action, turning every scene into a live game of influence, bluff and comic escalation. The result is fast, unpredictable theatre where the ensemble’s timing, listening and inventiveness keep the audience guessing until the very last exchange.
In French.
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