
Dedicated to ceramics and glass, the Musée Ariana is situated in a majestic 19th-century building within a 4-hectare park near the United Nations. In addition to its permanent collection, the museum regularly curates temporary exhibitions, frequently featuring the work of contemporary artists. Musee Ariana provides guided tours and organizes workshops for children.
Cross Rhymez brings together a dozen MCs, beatmakers, beatboxers and dancers in a collective, participatory show created during a series of residencies uniting Swiss artists and contemporary artists from the Arabophone scene. The performance blends improvised vocal exchanges, layered beats and physical movement to explore cultural dialogue, cross‑rhythms and community voice. Intimate and energetic, the piece invites audience interaction and celebrates collaborative creation across languages and musical traditions.
Choreographed by Léo Lérus, Gounouj in situ is an intimate, physical dance for four performers that evokes fragile, living landscapes. Rooted in gwoka rhythms and inspired by the creole concept of bousyè, the work blends traditional and contemporary vocabularies to explore vulnerability, transformation and resistance. Bodies shift between human and amphibious states across a sensory soundscape of bird song and marine breath, transforming the stage into a moving ecosystem and proposing a fragile possibility of new balance.
Performed by François Mardirossian, this eight‑hour nocturnal recital explores the minimalism tradition through repetitions and subtle variation. The programme moves between works by Philip Glass, Moondog, Erik Satie, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, John Cage and other composers, creating an immersive, meditative and physical soundscape that invites listeners to drift in and out. A prelude DJ set by Camille Rhonat opens the evening, framing the transition from ambient textures to focused piano minimalism.
An intimate aerial encounter, Une rencontre suspendue brings together hair suspension, acrobatic play, guitar harmonies and a textured singing voice. Conceived by the collective Association VOILÀ VOILÀ, this short creation features aerial acrobat Lili Parson Piguet and musician Jeanne Pâris. The piece mixes fragile physicality and musical intimacy to trace a delicate complicity between movement and sound, where everyday materials become instruments of tension and tenderness. Presented as a compact, sensory performance within the festival context.
How do you tell fifty years of a festival in a single song? The BPM Collective takes on that challenge with a participatory musical celebration for La Bâtie’s jubilee. The trio Catherine Büchi, Léa Pohlhammer and Pierre Mifsud, with composer Andrés Garcia, transform collected memories into a homegrown anthem. Everyone is invited to sing, dance and weave together five decades of discoveries, emotions and memorable moments in a joyful, communal karaoke-choir.
Festival de la Bâtie – Blanc Manioc x Furie Sound System brings together the Franco‑Brazilian collective Furie Sound System and the pan‑African electronic label Blanc Manioc for a celebratory finale. With special guests DJ Baddest and Senegalese artist Mara Seck, the performance blends electronic production with African traditions and tropical rhythms, moving through techno, house, reggae, amapiano, batida, baile funk and electro‑sabar. The set foregrounds rhythmic dialogue, cross‑cultural textures and communal energy.
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