The Bande J of Cie Acrylique Junior presents a show at La Parfumerie, delving into a polluted world where poetry arises from waste. Directed by Léon Boesch and Lucien Thévenoz, the production features costumes by Spooky Dolls Surgery and is managed by Evelyne Castellino and Lino Eden.
In French.
At La Parfumerie, “VERTIGES” by Catherine Tinivella Aeschimann takes us to the base of the Eiger’s north face, where five tourists follow the climb of mountaineer Ueli Steck. Turning simple observation into an intense immersion, they experience the emotions of Steck and his partner. This piece, a blend of sports commentary and alpine storytelling, delves into our connection with achievement and performance, while also recalling the ghosts of the Eiger’s victims. Directed by Tamara Fischer, this show offers a communal and introspective experience.
In French.
The company Chantal et Bernadette explores, with both naïveté and documentary precision, the foundations and challenges of the education system through the story of Kévin, who feels let down by it. By merging scientific inquiry with theatrical expression, they engage the audience’s critical thinking. This production is a collaborative creation by Arnaud Hoedt, Jérôme Piron, Antoine Defoort, and Clément Thirion, developed in close partnership with researchers, with special attention to set design and technical aspects.
In French.
Festival Antigel transforms Geneva into an experimental cultural playground each winter, a three-week laboratory of innovation. Programming mixes renowned and emerging artists across music, performance and visual projects, revealing unexpected sites and blending disciplines. The festival foregrounds diversity and social engagement, bringing together varied audiences through bold curations. Lighting, sound and staging often shape intimate, cinematic atmospheres, while collaborative projects emphasize discovery, collective energy and the thrill of shared, ephemeral encounters.
Danse en l’Île — the fifth edition of the International Young Ballets Festival brings together five European companies and over 80 young dancers in a programme of contemporary choreography. Works by Ohad Naharin, Alba Castillo, Edouard Hue, Johan Inger, Ben Duke, Oona Doherty, Ed Wubbe, Stephen Shropshire and Andrea Costanzo Martini alternate virtuosic ensemble passages with intimate solo moments, exploring physical intensity, abrupt dynamics and theatrical contrast.
Ensemble Vortex offers five pieces that probe apophenia, machines, bodies and sensory shivers, mapping perception’s unstable edges. Composers Rama Gottfried, Daniel Zea, Romane Bouffioux, Anna Korsun and Eva Reiter shape a landscape of micro-stage gestures, video projections, survival-blanket resonances, whispering ASMR textures, spatialized sound and tape. Instrumentalists shift roles—singing, playing, amplifying brushed objects—while live-filmed faces and mechanical tics create a fragile dramaturgy of rupture and merger. The evening unfolds as an immersive, tactile exploration of listening and misrecognition.
Born in northern Italy in the 16th century, Commedia dell’arte shaped opera and European theatre. Under the direction of Rafael Bianciotto, specialist in masked performance, singers from the Haute école de musique de Genève’s vocal department explore mask work, improvisation and the embodiment of stock characters such as Arlecchino, Pantalone, Colombina and Scapin. Meta Červ and Ama Martin accompany on piano, while Bianciotto’s staging combines pedagogical rigor with playful physicality to reveal comic and dramatic nuances.
In French.
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