Performed and directed by Andrea Jiménez, Casting Lear blends autofiction with Shakespeare’s text. Jiménez embodies Cordelia while inviting a different actor each evening to play Lear — a father imagined anew. The piece, staged as an audition or rehearsal, probes filial bonds, legacy and authorship, where memory and invention collide. Intimate and volatile, it investigates how antecedents haunt us and how one might invent a life that truly belongs to them.
In French.
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Bertrand Belin sculpts a deliberately wandering pop poised between rock and chanson, threaded with jazz and blues. On his latest album Watt he explores existential themes through poetic, mysterious and luminous writing. His crooner-like delivery and elegant harmonic language combine introspection with expansive, almost stellar arrangements, guiding the listener from intimate passages to wide sonic horizons. The concert offers an elegant, reflective musical voyage.
For its eighth edition, Le Fumigène brings together two contrasting improvisation formats shaped by student talent and quick-fire invention. On Friday, a high-energy match pits the LuDi Île-de-France against Laituge, with an unpredictable referee turning every scene into a playful challenge. On Saturday, Deus Ex Machina shifts into long-form storytelling, where improvisers build a full world from a staging concept imposed by the game master. It is an inventive, collaborative celebration of theatrical spontaneity and ensemble risk-taking.
In French.
Improoo is a festival of long-form improvisation that lets stories breathe and unfold in real time. Performances range from half-hour episodes to hour-long narratives and beyond, driven by a tight ensemble of improvisers who build sustained dramatic arcs, shifting tones and unexpected emotional turns. The creative approach privileges listening, risk and theatrical economy, offering immersive, spontaneous storytelling rooted in theatrical craft and collective play.
In French.
Focus Jeune Création brings together a new generation of Romand artists over two weeks, presenting five bold and hybrid performances that blur theatre, performance and live art. The program explores emergent writing and stage practices— from plateau-based text to pieces rooted in the real—offering layered, often indisciplinary approaches that question formats and invent languages for a transforming world. Accompanying meetings and discussions extend the works and open insight into creative processes.
Choreographed by Soraya Leila Emery, Coming Soon reimagines Ingres’s La Grande Odalisque through a playful, subversive lens. A single performer shifts between tableaux—seductive, mischievous, defiant—using grotesque exaggeration and theatrical excess to unsettle the orientalist gaze. Sparse objects, bold gestures and a keen sense of timing create alternating moments of intimacy and farce, opening space for new narratives of desire and agency. Created in collaboration with Emergentia and local partners, the work feels simultaneously imminent and elusive.
Nicolas Folmer leads So Miles, a modern jazz and bebop project drawn from the musical world and aesthetic of Miles Davis. Folmer’s trumpet engages in close dialogue with special guest Rick Margitza, supported by Emil Spanyi on piano, Olivier Louvel on guitar, Philippe Bussonnet on bass and Stéphane Huchard on drums. The programme balances lyrical introspection and fiery improvisation, foregrounding tone, space and groove in intimate ensemble interplay.
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