Located in the heart of Geneva, the Pavillon ADC or Pavillon de la Danse, is the city’s first center solely dedicated to dance creations and performances. With a network of cultural partnerships, the ADC engages diverse audiences, fosters innovative approaches to live art, and encourages communal artistic exploration.
Follow a silhouette as they move through waves of strong feeling while a pianist plays calm, steady music. Gradually childhood memories surface, spoken in gentle gestures and small movements. Kids will watch shifts in rhythm, listen to low piano tones, and feel the hush and warmth of the scene. This quiet duet invites curiosity about how feelings grow and settle, encouraging listening, reflection, and gentle imagination.
Choreographed by Trajal Harrell and performed by the Zürich Dance Ensemble, Caen Amour blurs the line between dance and runway, mixing representation with sharp cultural commentary. The piece draws on the late-19th-century hoochie-coochie and orientalist spectacle, reworking those flamboyant gestures into a transcultural odyssey. Costumes, music and lighting interplay to sculpt a theatrical, sensual atmosphere where movement, pageantry and critique collide, inviting reflection on performance, identity and spectacle.
Choreographer Chiara Bersani invites the audience into the undergrowth of an imagined forest, performed in duo with dancer Elena Sgarbossa and a group of workshop participants. The piece stages bodies limited by disability to probe movement, survival and collective care. Inspired by confinement and the inequalities revealed by the pandemic, it turns the stage into an ecosystem — a vibrating floor, layered soundscape and a shared spatial attention — where small gestures, bodily memory and vulnerability become transformative forces and the basis for a newly imagined community.
Emma Saba and Jeanne Pâris revive the lyric repertoire in a subversive, celebratory performance. Playing with time and inheritance, Saba reworks early arias into electric fragments, laughter and amplified sighs. The piece interrogates the politics of the voice as opera sheds its white pageant to become raw material, desire, anger and tenderness. Part performance, part concert, Jalousie des tempêtes stages a ritual of dismantling and rejoicing, where vocal technique meets bodily intensity and theatrical invention.
Choreographed by Jolie Ngemi, Mbok’Elengi transforms the stage into a street: five dancers reimagine Congolese dances, notably the exuberant sebene style. The piece blends contemporary movement and Congolese roots, building cultural bridges through ritual, celebration and resistance. Scenography and lighting shape an ecstatic group party that oscillates between revolt and dream, inviting physical joy and collective catharsis. The performance is non-verbal and driven by rhythm, gesture and communal energy.
Baby Volcano presents a hybrid concert-performance that blends visceral rhythms, immersive imagery and a bold manifesto. The new creation fuses reggaeton, baile funk, volcanic noise and layered chant into a luminous, physical refuge where celebration becomes an act of survival and sharing. Monumental, textile-based scenography reacts to sound, shaping bodies and light into an organic landscape. The piece explores collective emotion through music, movement and theatrical writing. Creation 2026; coproduction.
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