5 – 7 June

Cabaret en chantier

Performances

Booking Required

Cabaret en chantier is a laboratory for short puppet creations that treats making a puppet show like walking a tightrope while juggling. Balanced between text and image, between real and imaginary, between the animated and the inanimate, it demands writing, building and precise manipulation; every gesture and detail can tip the whole. This edition highlights emerging artists—students and career-changers—who receive institutional support to explore and reinvent puppet arts, presenting their first creations.

In French.

Rue Rodo 3,
1205 Genève

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30 April – 10 May

Nu vite

Performances

Théâtre le Galpon

Co-created by Pascal Gravat and Julien Mages for Compagnie Revolver, “Nu Vite” (Naked Quickly) is a choreo-biography in which a dancer and an author probe time, ageing and the urgent need to seize each instant. The work blends intimate movement and written testimony, set to music by Pierce Warnecke with sound design by Clive Jenkins and lighting by Alessandra Domingues. The 75‑minute performance explores memory, bodily change and the delicate rhythm between presence and loss.

In French. Adults only (17+).

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1 – 10 May

Amour(s)

Performances

Théâtre le douze dix-huit

Amour(s) is a production by Compagnie lesArts that delves into the various dimensions of love through testimonies, stories, and writings. Directed by Tony Romaniello, this collaborative creation combines documentary theater with performances by Laurent Baier, Christian Baumann, and Stella Giuliani. The set design is by Célia Zanghi, with lighting design and management by Yannis Marti.

In French.

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8 – 9 May

Interstices – Festival du Centre des Cultures

Lectures & Workshops Performances

HEM Dufour

Interstices gathers music, conversation and cross-cultural exchange, exploring interculturality through concerts, workshops, conferences and roundtables. Featuring a special guest trio from Rajasthan led by Asin Khan Langa — Aga Khan Music Awards 2022 laureate — the programme moves between intimate acoustic textures and energetic dance rhythms. Collaborative panels with cultural partners investigate music’s role amid contemporary tensions. The overall staging favors attentive listening, layered sonorities and moments of reflection that invite immersion and emotional resonance.

In French.

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9 – 10 May

Philémon et Baucis

Performances

Centre des Arts

Kim Crofts stages a contemporary puppet-opera adaptation of Haydn and Ovid, blending spoken text with operatic arias for an intimate, poetic retelling of the myth of Philemon and Baucis. Table puppets and masks create layered, tactile tableaux while Raphaël Merlin leads the musical direction with a chamber orchestra. Singers Sophie Negoïta, Faustine Egiziano, Maxence Billiemaz and David Ferreira bring vocal character. The production balances classical source material with playful visual invention.

In French.

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6 – 9 May

Ceramic Circus

Performances

La Comédie de Genève

Created and performed by Julian Vogel and written and staged by Roman Müller and Julian Vogel, Ceramic Circus is a solo circus piece conceived like a musical composition. On a circular stage Vogel pedals and skates around a swinging ceramic sphere, layering the crash of plates, drum rolls and rhythmic loops. The staging balances virtuosity and fragility, where feats and deliberate clumsiness create a tense, poetic atmosphere.

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21 April – 10 May

Ivanov

Performances

Théâtre de Carouge

Chekhov’s Ivanov follows Nikolai Ivanov, a middling Russian landowner crushed by debt and by the slow decline of his wife, Anna Petrovna, who is dying of tuberculosis. Across four acts, his inertia curdles into melancholy and self-destruction, swinging between biting comedy and harrowing despair. Written in a ten-day burst in 1887, when Chekhov was only twenty-seven, the play crackles with youthful urgency as tragedy and humor intertwine.

Director–actor Jean-François Sivadier infuses this new staging with his distinctive theatrical energy, pairing veteran performers with fresh faces to reignite the play’s original heat. Echoing Gustav Mahler’s dictum that “tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire,” the production seeks to keep Chekhov’s raw, combustible spirit blazing on today’s stage.

In French. Ages 16 and up.

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