Nina Cachelin is a Geneva comedian and improviser presenting her first stand-up show. With warm irony she explores themes of success, career and the pressure to achieve. Through candid anecdotes and improvised moments she transforms everyday doubts into sharp, relatable observations. The performance balances confessional storytelling and spontaneous comic play, offering a lively, intimate experience that showcases her timing, presence and keen eye for social satire.
In French.
La Clique is a creative residency presenting four emerging stand-up artists whose distinct voices and comic styles interact in a tightly staged showcase. The season brings ensemble work, solo turns and improvised exchanges, mixing sharp observation, absurdist sketches and personal storytelling. The atmosphere is intimate, unpredictable and collaborative, highlighting the dynamics between performers and audience while exploring contemporary humour in multiple registers.
In French.
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.
Conceived by conductor Marie Célérier, Symphon’Hip-Hop brings the Geneva Chamber Orchestra together with Timar, Aamo, Dakeez, Mibsy and Kamil Osmanov to forge a bold dialogue between classical textures and hip‑hop, soul and R&B. Orchestral timbres intertwine with beat-driven vocal lines, while a dance battle sets a kinetic frame for the evening. Curated with Planète Rouge, the project balances improvisation and composed structures, creating an exhilarating, urban‑classical soundworld that foregrounds rhythm and collective energy.
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.
Formed in 1988 on Long Island, Suffocation helped define brutal death metal with relentless riffs, complex rhythms and guttural vocals. On this tour they share the bill with Ingested, Undeath and Eternal, creating a night of extreme heaviness and technical ferocity. Expect densely layered compositions, crushing breakdowns and high-energy performances that emphasise precision and intensity. The programme highlights both legacy material and newer, uncompromising tracks that showcase the genre’s raw power.
Focus Jeune Création brings together a new generation of Romand artists over two weeks, presenting five bold and hybrid performances that blur theatre, performance and live art. The program explores emergent writing and stage practices— from plateau-based text to pieces rooted in the real—offering layered, often indisciplinary approaches that question formats and invent languages for a transforming world. Accompanying meetings and discussions extend the works and open insight into creative processes.
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