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.

Directed by Célie Pauthe and adapted from Mathieu Belezi’s novel, C’était notre terre is a five‑performer theatre piece that stages the collapse of a family in northern Algeria during the war of independence. Kamel Khélif’s paintings infuse the mise en scène, confronting the violent logics of colonial rule. The ensemble navigates memory, rupture and generational trauma through a choral narrative performed in French and Kabyle, with French surtitles.

Radio Live – La Relève presents a cross-disciplinary performance-installation that sketches the portrait of an engaged young generation. In a scenographic installation blending radio atmospheres and documentary, the piece investigates memory and shifting identities through a hybrid interplay of sound, image and spontaneous speech. Participants from Bosnia, Syria, Ukraine, Rwanda, India and France share testimonies; performers alternate (Martin France, Amir Hassan, Yannick Kamanzi, Oksana Leuta, Hala Rajab, Sumeet Samos, Ines Tanovic). The staging is intimate and investigative in tone.

In French.