6 – 7 November

Coming Soon — Soraya Leila Emery

Booking Required

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.

Place de la Madeleine 1,
1204 Genève
Photo Credit: Binta Kopp
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Photo Credit: Binta Kopp

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