Saturday 21 November, 20:00

The Orchestra Brings Cinema to Life

Booking Required

The Conservatoire populaire’s symphony orchestra brings the great screen to life with an evening of iconic film music. Advanced students deliver sweeping orchestral performances that balance cinematic power and subtlety, while a local instrumental ensemble opens with fresh, community-rooted interpretations. Expect a richly layered programme that moves between stirring themes and intimate motifs, creating an immersive, theatrical soundworld that celebrates the storytelling force of cinema through music.

Chemin du Bois-des-Arts 62,
1226 Thônex

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Photo Credit: DR

Friday 4 September, 21:00

Yalla Miku

Performances

Théâtre de l'Orangerie

Yalla Miku blends Ethiopian krar tradition with a modified banjo, deep electric bass and experimental electronics to create a dialogue between the Horn of Africa and European experimental scenes. The ensemble’s music moves through trance, electronic pulses and suspended textures, with voices weaving in and out of dense sonic layers. Performers include Samuel Ades Tesfagergsh (krar, voice), Louise Knobil (electric bass, voice), Cyril Bondi (drums, percussion, voice), Emma Souharce (machines, synths, voice) and Cyril Yeterian (Ufo banjo, electric guitar, voice).

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3 – 4 September

Festival de la Bâtie – How Romantic

Performances

La Comédie de Genève

Choreographer Katerina Andreou stages a raw, physical dance work that propels fourteen performers from the Norwegian company Carte Blanche into an endurance-like marathon. Drawing on the dance marathons of the Great Depression, the piece explores desire, fatigue, power and the human need for connection as bodies cling, push and exhaust themselves within a hypnotic pulse. Between collective trance, biting irony and uncontrollable vitality, the choreography stages the tension between chaos and control and our fascination with performance and intimacy.

In English and multilingual (sung parts only).

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4 – 6 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp

Performances

Multiple locations

Geneva’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp offers a nomadic musical odyssey that blends fervent rhythms, sonic experimentation and a spirit of freedom. For nearly twenty years the collective has shaped a distinctive sound: layered voices, interweaving textures and songs that confront the present without succumbing to despair. Carried by an impressive constellation of brass, strings, percussion, marimbas and guitars, more than fifteen musicians create generous, mobile and intensely alive music that moves between communal celebration and joyful escape.

Friday 4 September, 22:00: La Parfumerie
Saturday 5 September, 22:00: Scène Caecilia
Sunday 6 September,22:00: cave12

Additional free performances:

Friday 4 September 18:00: Parc du Château Voltaire
Saturday 5 September 15:00: Parc Battelle – Maison de Quartier des Grands-Hutins
Saturday 5 September 18:00: Esplanade du Lignon
Sunday 6 September 13:00: Promenade Rivoire

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3 – 5 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Sturbzep

Performances

Temple de Saint-Gervais

Directed by Sophie Perez for the Compagnie du Zerep, Sturbzep turns the stage into a machine of collective hallucinations. Drawing on hoaxes, cryptids and literary impostures, the piece mixes haunted-manor atmospheres, neon-free fairground textures and prophetic nightmares. Sophie Lenoir, Stéphane Roger, Erge Yu, Adrien Castillo and Baptiste de Laubier embody a controlled chaos of creatures and smoky visions. Text by Pacôme Thiellement and music by hackedepicciotto shape an uncanny, theatrical odyssey.

In French.

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4 – 5 September

Zanco – 20th Anniversary Show

Performances

Directed by Yuval Dishon, Zanco’s 20th Anniversary Show revisits five emblematic creations in a mobile, immersive promenade. Performers including committee members Vlady Wagner, Micha Hersch and Cyril Lenz animate papier‑mâché ghosts, masks and puppetry, accompanied by music from POL and Guillaume Lagger and sound design by Ivan Verda. The artistic team (Stella Giuliani, Jessica Haener, Olga Andreichikova, Mehdi Duman, Dinu Corminboeuf, Oliver Robertson) reframes memory, language and myth to probe democratic crisis, fear and social fragmentation in a nocturnal, poetic atmosphere.

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2 – 5 September

Les mondes qui nous manquent

Performances

Théâtre de l'Orangerie

Three performers plunge into the ideas of Mark Fisher to question why imagining different futures has become so difficult. On stage, electronic music, rap, projected texts like slogans, militant karaoke and a miniature dancefloor collide. Each performer circulates with an alter ego — a kitsch, radical, excessive version of themselves — as identities slip, overlap and are improvised live. Produced by Superprod in coproduction with La Bâtie and TO!.

In French.

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The Orchestra Brings Cinema to Life