Thursday 4 March, 18:30

Magic Carousel · Mosaic Season

Led by marimbist and composer Eric Sammut, Magic Carousel presents a rhythmic journey through jazz, groove, and Gypsy and Latin inflections. The program, featured in the Mosaic Season, pairs the percussion faculty with invited students and ensembles, including sonic contributions from the Vertixe Sonora Ensemble. Works such as Mirages, Crawl, Walk, Run and Magic Carousel transform mallets and drums into lyrical and percussive voices, shaping an immersive, pulsating sound world that alternates intimacy and explosive energy.

Rue François d'Ivernois 7,
Geneva

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Photo Credit: Conservatoire populaire

6 – 7 November

Coming Soon — Soraya Leila Emery

Performances

L'Abri

Choreographed by Soraya Leila Emery, Coming Soon reimagines Ingres’s La Grande Odalisque through a playful, subversive lens. A single performer shifts between tableaux—seductive, mischievous, defiant—using grotesque exaggeration and theatrical excess to unsettle the orientalist gaze. Sparse objects, bold gestures and a keen sense of timing create alternating moments of intimacy and farce, opening space for new narratives of desire and agency. Created in collaboration with Emergentia and local partners, the work feels simultaneously imminent and elusive.

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6 – 7 November

Mackenzy Bergile – Autothérapie

Performances

Pavillon ADC

Autothérapie is a solo dance work that unfolds as a choreographic form of introspection. Fragmented sessions weave geography of memory, trauma and cultural references to explore Haiti, personal history and intergenerational memory. The piece favors intimate, physical staging and concentrated dramaturgy, inviting viewers into an embodied investigation of identity, inherited narratives and resilience. Rawness and poetic movement alternate, producing a dense emotional atmosphere that lingers beyond the performance.

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30 October – 8 November

GIFF Nights

Performances

Salle communale de Plainpalais

Dive into the heart of GIFF NIGHTS, the unmissable nighttime event where the Geneva International Film Festival fuses cinema, digital creation, and electronic music. Set against a spectacular backdrop brought to life by audiovisual performances and vibrant DJ sets, these extraordinary evenings transform the space into a unique, immersive, and festive experience—the perfect setting to gather, dance, and celebrate contemporary culture long into the night.

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3 – 22 November

Retour au pays / Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Performances

Théâtre des Amis

Directed by Marie-José Malis, Retour au pays revisits Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s letters through a spare, lucid staging. Performers Alexandra Tiedemann and Juan Crespillo inhabit the returning merchant’s disorientation, while Aurélia Ansermet provides live music and sound. Bernard Héritier’s scenography and Jessy Ducatillon’s lighting shape moments of visual surprise, most poignantly a Van Gogh encounter that restores belief in the world. The piece refuses facile answers, offering theatrical lucidity and an austere emotional clarity.

In French.

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17 September – 18 December

Manon Bril – 300 000 ans

Performances

Théâtre de la Madeleine

Created by Manon Bril and Etienne Lautrette and directed by Théo Comby Lemaitre, this hybrid lecture-performance blends scholarly rigour with theatrical wit. Historian Manon Bril guides the audience through surprising episodes of human history, overturning assumptions with a sharp, offbeat humour and playful staging. The show mixes clear popular-science explanation, theatrical images and comic timing to reveal that nothing has “always been like this”.

In French.

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Friday 6 November, 18:15

Tagada Jones + Darcy + Bob’s Not Dead

Performances

Alhambra

Part of Recluses Fest #10, this high-energy bill brings together Tagada Jones, Darcy and Bob’s Not Dead for an intense evening of punk and rock. Each band offers raw riffs, driving rhythms and urgent vocals, moving between anthemic choruses and fast, uncompromising grooves. Expect a compact, visceral set-up where community spirit and DIY ethos meet seasoned stagecraft, showcasing both local vitality and headline force.

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Magic Carousel · Mosaic Season