Saturday 14 November, 19:30

Kurtág

Free

György Kurtág, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music, is celebrated in a programme shaped around short, intensely concentrated forms. Drawing on Bartók and Webern while remaining wholly singular, his poetry of gesture unfolds through pieces for violin, viola and cello. The HEM, long connected to the composer through masterclasses and past projects, extends its Kurtág cycle with works from Signs, games and messages, set in dialogue with music from other eras and a new miniature by Danielle Goldstein.

Place de Neuve 5,
1204 Genève

Photo Credit: DR

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Photo Credit: DR

30 October – 14 November

Sept — Dance and Film

Performances

Théâtre du Grütli

Four performers embody testimonies from different generations in Sept, situated at the crossroads of dance and film. Between intimate confidences and tender tableaux, the piece examines how age shapes us and stages a delicate exploration of what growing older means, revealing a shared humanity. The staging shifts between projected images and live bodies, weaving visual and physical layers to create an experience that is both poetic and unsettling.

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27 October – 15 November

Focus Jeune Création

Performances

La Comédie de Genève

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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5 – 22 November

Poésidonia

Performances

La Parfumerie

A theatrical, musical and visual voyage into the heart of the Mediterranean, Poésidonia brings together forty actors, singers and musicians in a vibrant chorus. Their stories speak of solidarity, exile, hope and resistance, carried by poetry, music and voices from across the world. Around the performance, concerts extend the encounter, while an exhibition of photographs and illustrations adds further visual perspectives.

In French.

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Tuesday 10 November, 19:00

Promenade Obligatoire

Performances

FURTHER AFIELD

Choreographer Anne Nguyen, rooted in breakdance battles and informed by scientific studies, rebuilds hip‑hop vocabulary with a mathematical sensuality. Promenade Obligatoire stages an uninterrupted, ordered march across the performance space that becomes a meditation on life’s meaning and the passage of time. Popping—blocks, isolations and body dissociations—sharpens contrasts between rupture and mimicry. The explosive, precise gestures transform the inexorable walk into a hypnotic, transportive experience that explores repetition, synchronization and the poetry of everyday movement.

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22 September 2026 – 11 May 2027

Dancing tea

Performances

La julienne

An afternoon of live music and easygoing celebration transforms the room into a dance floor. Whether arriving alone or as a couple, audiences are invited into a warm, convivial atmosphere where movement and music meet in an informal setting. The experience is light, social, and welcoming, with the energy of a shared dance gathering and the pleasure of music played live.

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Tuesday 10 November, 19:30

Nessi Gomes & Mike Rauss

Performances

Alhambra

British‑Portuguese singer-songwriter Nessi Gomes and Barcelona‑based Mike Rauss present an evening of intimate, genre-blending song. Gomes weaves traditional Portuguese fado’s emotional depth with a contemporary British sensibility, producing haunting, lushly textured soundscapes and medicine‑singer mysticism; her acclaimed album Diamonds & Demons foregrounds this quiet intensity. Mike Rauss offers playful yet profound troubadour songs where funk, folk, oriental motifs and flamenco guitar meet a warm, grooving voice. Together they create an atmosphere of ritual, longing and raw presence.

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