Théâtre du Galpon is an independent performing-arts house in Petit-Lancy, Geneva. It presents contemporary theatre and dance productions, hosts artist residencies, workshops and training, and supports company creation and experimentation. The venue includes rehearsal and gallery spaces, fostering local artistic development and serving as a platform for innovative stage work within Geneva’s cultural scene.
Choreographed by Bast Hippocrate, this intimate pas de deux traces tenderness, fusion, dependence and violence in a fragile arc toward reconciliation. Following LoveLettersOrNot (2021), Hippocrate confirms an edge‑of‑skin choreographic voice. Two performers navigate a fragmented soundscape of recorded breaths and pop echoes, drifting between abandon, euphoria and vertigo. Suggesting the experience of chemsex, the piece transforms lived gay intimacy into a physical fable — burning, ambivalent and profoundly shareable.
Guided by the song of whales, Teatro de Lo Inestable crafts a polyphonic narrative around the tragic drift of 25 passengers aboard a cayuco seeking a better world. Inspired by a true story, the piece intertwines poetry and politics through dense text and a physical audiovisual set, where object manipulation and sound create an intimate, haunting atmosphere. The company’s ensemble work emphasizes collective memory and the human cost of migration.
In Spanish.
Directed by Nathalie Cuenet and written by Valérie Poirier, Dire adieu is performed by Compagnie Volodia. The piece stages fragmented conversations between a daughter and her mother, probing a quest for recognition and the fragile possibility of reconciliation. Its form recalls the codes of Greek tragedy, using heightened language and concentrated staging to explore memory, silence and unresolved grief. The ensemble creates a tense, intimate atmosphere that makes emotional rupture palpable.
In French.
Novarina’s text is staged as a pulsating, jubilant language for seated singers: an archipelago of acts and unresolved gestures. Cascades of duos, liturgies of the circus, laments, spoken landscapes and fragmentary songs assemble into a corrosive poetic satire that probes the sonic, visual, semantic and rhythmic virtualities of speech. The piece interrogates political discourse, the press and the social image of man while privileging theatrical sound and corporeal invention. Produced by Studio d’Action Théâtrale as part of its 40th anniversary.
In French.
Based on René Daumal and directed by Gabriel Alvarez, La Grande Beuverie is a merciless satire and mystical fable that probes intoxication, confusion and human folly. The six-person ensemble (Karim Abdelaziz, Clara Brancorsini, Soufiane Guerraoui, Margot Le Coultre, Madeleine Piguet Raykov and Justine Ruchat) performs a jubilant, poetic language framed by Sylvain Fournier’s music and songs. The staging combines dark humour and ritual intensity to offer a sharp reflection on contemporary society and collective delusion.
In French.
Directed by Olivier Sidore, Le Fonctionnement des choses proposes a sensory, poetic theatre experience built on texts by Zhuangzi. Seven short pieces—between fable, dialogue and poetic material—are woven into a staging that crosses disciplines, combining voice, movement and an original musical landscape by Chris Abrahams. The work explores perception, the everyday and our relation to the world through slow rhythms and intimate soundscapes, favouring reflection over exposition.
In French.
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