
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.
Choreographed by María del Mar Suárez (La Chachi), this hybrid flamenco pieces tradition and punk sensibility into a raw, personal language. On stage two musicians and a singer shape a live soundscape that frames La Chachi’s emergence: a dim light reveals her silhouette as she advances and begins an ascension. Her motions coil and break in looping cycles as the music intensifies. Visceral and hypnotic, the performance immerses spectators in concentrated rhythms and fierce corporeal poetry.
Centred on Sami Bernath’s embodied memories, this performance mixes Swiss popular songs, rhythmic gestures and the traditional Löffelä spoon percussion to transform everyday motions into sound. Through repetition, deformation and rhythmic saturation, familiar motifs become permeable, revealing buried and repressed memories beneath the Swiss mountains. The staging is intimate and ritualistic, alternating fragile vocal fragments and percussive textures to probe memory and collective inheritance.
In French.
Quinceañeras is a durational performance created and performed by Colombian artists Estefanía and Luisa, who examine the ambivalence of the quinceañera ritual. Combining movement, symbolic staging and intimate scenography, the piece interrogates colonial legacies and the boundaries of gendered rites of passage. Through choreography and poetic gestures they transform ritual into acts of resistance and self-affirmation, proposing new modes of feminine representation and collective memory within contemporary performance.
Autothérapie is a solo dance work that unfolds as a choreographic form of introspection. Fragmented sessions weave geography of memory, trauma and cultural references to explore Haiti, personal history and intergenerational memory. The piece favors intimate, physical staging and concentrated dramaturgy, inviting viewers into an embodied investigation of identity, inherited narratives and resilience. Rawness and poetic movement alternate, producing a dense emotional atmosphere that lingers beyond the performance.
Join the ADC community for a warm celebration of its 40th anniversary. Everyone is invited to share in an evening of performances, music, cake and small surprises. Come as you are, curious and enthusiastic, to connect with artists, neighbours and fellow participants. The event is a chance to celebrate collective history, exchange stories and enjoy informal encounters that highlight our shared creative spirit.
Enter a playful world where a child’s toys suddenly grow huge and come to life. Three oversized dolls, made from stitched fabric discs, wobble and tumble around a monumental broken rocking-horse head. Soft and disjointed, they invent curious ways to move and interact while one doll seems to follow its own path. Between sculptural objects, choreography and visual theatre, the piece joyfully evokes the sensations and imagination of childhood.
In French. Kids ages 3 and up.
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