“Bowling Club Fantasy” by Julie Bugnard and Isumi Grichting at Maison Saint-Gervais takes you into a bowling club setting where a meeting between a music industry mogul and an artist unfolds in unexpected ways. The regulars’ conversations, film dialogues on the TV, and bar sounds spark parallel narratives, creating a tapestry of everyday life. The creators, inspired by American objective poetry, independent cinema, and lo-fi music, delve into the coexistence of different worlds.
In French.
The OSR collaborates with HEAD for a unique symphonic concert, featuring projections of artwork created by students from the HEAD Bachelor Illustration program. Conducted by Philippe Béran, the program includes works by Hans Zimmer, Sandrine Rudaz, and Modest Mussorgsky (orchestrated by Maurice Ravel). This event offers an innovative fusion of music and visual arts, creating a fresh, dynamic experience that brings together seasoned talent and youthful creativity.
Led by tenor and soprano saxophonist Simon Spiess, Helio traces a dreamlike journey through atmospheres, rhythms and shifting energies. Two generations of players—Simon Spiess, Malcolm Braff (piano), Bänz Oester (double bass) and Samuel Dühsler (drums)—blend original compositions with jazz-rooted improvisation, interweaving rhythmic motifs and sensitive harmonies. The ensemble’s sound balances innovation and timelessness, crafting intimate textures and expansive surges that invite focused listening and sustained emotional resonance.
Led by Franco‑Algerian trumpeter Shems Bendali, this quintet blends Maghreb and Middle Eastern motifs with contemporary jazz, unfolding a retro‑futuristic soundworld drawn from science fiction and graphic novels. The ensemble—Shems Bendali (trumpet), Arthur Donnot (saxophone), Andrew Audiger (piano & keys), Yves Marcotte (double bass) and Nathan Vandenbulcke (drums)—crafts evocative, contemplative soundscapes where memory, imagination and heritage converge. Acoustic textures meet modern timbres, creating intimate, cinematic atmospheres that invite reflection.
Nathalie Karibian and Fabrice Lelong bring the opera Nour to La Parfumerie. Nour, a symbol of Armenia, poetically delves into universal themes of displacement, identity, and love through a conversation between a grandfather and his granddaughter, touching on the Armenian diaspora. Created to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian genocide, this opera highlights human resilience. The musical direction is led by Fruzsina Szuromi, with staging by Michèle Cart and choreography by Béatrice Nauffray. The performance is supported by the Maîtrise du Conservatoire populaire and the Ensemble instrumental d’Opéra-Théâtre.
In French.
Directed by Bastien Blanchard, CANICULE is a first play that turns a scorching domestic scene into a comedic yet unsettling probe of consumerist happiness. Actors Nadim Ahmed, Estelle Benaïch, Danae Dario and Angelo Dell’Aquila shift between light banter and mounting unease as a repairman exposes fissures in a marriage. Cornélius Spaeter’s scenography, Marc Heinmendinger’s lighting and Ljubica Markovic’s costumes frame moments of heat, claustrophobia and ironic intimacy, touching on climate change and overconsumption with dry wit and emotional precision.
In French.
Winter of Caecilia gathers seven local theatre productions that revisit contemporary and classic forms through monologue and solo performance. Artists such as Nastassja Tanner, Ahmed Belbachir, Roland Vouilloz and Vincent Jacquet offer intimate, visceral interpretations, while texts by playwrights like Fabrice Melquiot are brought to life under directors including Jean‑Yves Ruf. The programme mixes poetic, comic and physically charged pieces that privilege sensory staging and emotional immediacy, inviting audiences into distinct, singular theatrical universes.
In French.
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