Situated in a recently constructed space above the new Gare des Eaux-Vives, La Comédie de Genève is a distinguished theatrical institution housing two theaters equipped with high-quality technical facilities. It hosts a wide range of performances, from classical to contemporary works, and is not limited to theater alone, often featuring dance, conferences, workshops, and collaborations with festivals.
Conceived as a performed celebration, this participatory dance event invites audiences to learn two short, accessible choreographies led by Géraldine Chollet, Alice and Baptiste. The convivial atmosphere builds into a collective sharing led by a hundred companion dancers and animated by DJ MÂNAA. Presented by the Compagnie Melta, the project showcases Passedanse and contemporary choreographic creation, blending improvisation, community energy and staged composition to create an inclusive festive performance experience.
Wajdi Mouawad presents a visceral, poetic traversal of the nine courses he taught at the Collège de France. Combining lecture and performance, he examines his intimate, bodily relationship to writing through language, silence and shadow. The experience unfolds in three distinct parts, each standing on its own, and invites attentive listening and reflection on creative practice and the craft of narration.
2 May at 10:00, 14:30 and 19:00
In French.
Created and performed by Julian Vogel and written and staged by Roman Müller and Julian Vogel, Ceramic Circus is a solo circus piece conceived like a musical composition. On a circular stage Vogel pedals and skates around a swinging ceramic sphere, layering the crash of plates, drum rolls and rhythmic loops. The staging balances virtuosity and fragility, where feats and deliberate clumsiness create a tense, poetic atmosphere.
Focus Circus presents a concentrated programme of contemporary circus works that examine virtuosity, hybrid artistic forms and evolving stage writing. Five pieces by international creators — including Julian Vogel’s Ceramic Circus, Katharsy’s Le Ring staged by Alice Laloy, Lili Parson Piguet’s provisional piece, a new proposition by Camille Boitel & Sève Bernard (compagnie L’Immédiat), and Marion Duval’s Retour — mix acrobatics, music, visual arts and performance. The focus also accompanies the creation Smallest Things by Marc Oosterhoff following a residency exit. The programme favours daring physicality and inventive scenography.
Alice Laloy crafts a dystopian world where two champions compete using mechanical avatars in challenges inspired by everyday life. Blending video games, visual arts, circus, and puppetry, the show features virtuoso performers—acrobats, singers, contortionists, and dancers—who captivate and unsettle the audience. The work questions contemporary power dynamics and our capacity for revolt and change.
In French.
Lili Parson Piguet presents a solo circus performance blending cyr wheel, capilotraction and acrobatic monologue. Parson Piguet is the creator and performer, with dramaturgy by Adina Secretan and creative support from Basile Herrmann Philippe. Lighting is by Tiki, sound by Gaspard Perdrisat and costumes by Marie Romanens. The piece moves between tenderness and mischief, leading the audience through a poetic drift where fiction and reality meet.
In French.
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