Directed by Aurélia Lüscher, Au Grand Passage stages a tender and questioning dialogue with her paternal grandmother and the spectral traces that linger among the living. Combining documentary inquiry and poetic dramaturgy, Lüscher conjures the voices of those who engage with the beyond amid a wax and mist décor that blurs visible and invisible. Drawing on readings like Magali Molinié and Vinciane Despret, the piece explores what cannot be resolved, using theatre’s spectral dimension to imagine passage between forms.

In French.

Samar Haddad King’s Shabaab blends dance, theatre and puppetry to trace the intimate bond between two Palestinian friends, Mohamed and Mahmoud. Through movement, dialogue and a haunting puppet by Sipho Ngxola, the piece reconstructs memories, imagined futures and the silences carved by colonial violence. The choreography explores youth, tenderness and forms of resistance, creating a fragile space where friendship becomes a means of survival and poetic witness.

In English and Arabic with French surtitles.

Five bodies in a landscape of ash prepare for what they do not yet know. Guided by cephalopod imagery, the performers move between intention and intuition, thought and sensation. This optimistic piece probes our anxieties while championing collective resilience and childish wonder. The choreography blends precise ensemble composition with impulsive, instinctive gestures, creating intimate, atmospheric tableaux. Lighting and sound sculpt a fragile, shifting world that invites viewers into a shared experience of uncertainty and hope.

In French.

Directed by Gabriel Alvarez, this revival brings back two landmark pieces from his company’s repertoire for the 40th anniversary of Studio d’Action Théâtrale. It pays tribute to Valère Novarina, animating the sonic, visual, semantic and rhythmic material of his language. The performance unfolds as a poetic origin tale that simultaneously suggests the birth of things and the approach of an ending, privileging vocality, dense textual textures and theatrical rupture.

In French.

Told as a solo performance, this piece follows a woman as she remembers the films that shaped her life and blurs the line between cinema and memory. Through references to science-fiction sagas and cinematic archetypes — the woman-soldier, the survivor, the reluctant mother — the show probes identity, fear of change and the ways stories migrate from screen to skin. Sparse staging and intimate narration create a haunting, introspective atmosphere.

In French.

Directed by Gabriel Álvarez, Le Repas revives two flagship pieces from his company’s repertoire for the 40th anniversary of Studio d’Action Théâtrale and pays homage to playwright Valère Novarina. A cosmogonic feast staged with the audience at table, the performance devours the world through ritual, poetry and corporeal presence. It examines human voracity, collective memory and the fate of what we ingest, offering a sensorial, intimate and occasionally brutal theatrical journey.

In French.