“Chaos Ballad” by Samir Kennedy at Maison Saint-Gervais immerses the audience in an intense performance blending concert, wild cabaret, and prophetic nightmare. With elaborate makeup and costumes, Kennedy embodies a melancholic, decadent clown, navigating between majesty and vulnerability. The performance features a defiant dance symbolizing the struggle against terror, absurdity, and the monotony of the world, creating a captivating and apocalyptic atmosphere.
Combining soul, folk and Scandinavian finesse, Jarle Bernhoft commands the stage with just his voice and guitar. A virtuosic guitarist and magnetic singer, he built a reputation as a solo performer after fronting the rock band SPAN. His breakthrough single ‘C’mon Talk’ and the album Islander — which made him the first non‑American nominated for a Grammy in the R&B category — showcase his songwriting, groove and dynamic live presence. Expect intimate, groove‑driven performances.
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.
Formed in Los Angeles in 2021, La Lom is a trio that turns the city’s diverse soundscape into a sun-drenched cumbia soundtrack. Combining cumbia sonidera with 1960s soul, romantic boleros and Peruvian chicha textures, guitar, bass and percussion weave cinematic, vintage-tinged grooves. The ensemble Zac Sokolow (guitar), Jake Faulkner (bass) and Nicholas Baker (percussion) released their debut self-titled album in 2024, revealing an infectious, filmic atmosphere.
Conducted by Sébastien Brugière, the Chamber Orchestra of Versoix juxtaposes Baroque brilliance and Romantic lyricism in a programme of Vivaldi and Brahms. Soloists Daniela Spadola (bassoon) and Yu Feng Wang (cello) engage in intimate dialogues with the ensemble, their phrasing highlighted against luminous string textures. The artistic focus is on contrast and clarity: precise articulation, warm sonority and expressive depth, with attention to pacing and color that draws listeners into the music’s theatrical and emotional arc.
Directed by Geneviève Pasquier and performed by Vincent Babel, LETTRE À MON DICTATEUR stages Eugène’s cathartic gesture of writing to Nicolae Ceauşescu. The production blends intimate monologue with archival echoes, folding fragments of Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue into a jazz-tinged score that punctuates memory and revelation. The creative space favors spare tableaux, tactile sound textures and a nimble rhythm that offsets historical weight with mischievous warmth, transforming personal trauma into a tender, witty coming-of-age confession.
In French.
Directed by Joël Maillard and adapted from Nina Yargekov’s novel, Double nationalité is a choral theatrical investigation into identity and its contradictions. Four actresses — Cécile Goussard, Mélina Martin, Alicia Packer and Marie Ripoll — embody a single heroine and the chorus of her inner thoughts, navigating bilingual disorientation, memory and fantasy. Mélissa Rouvinet’s scenography, Antoine Françoise’s music and Édouard Hügli’s lighting create a dreamlike, often sharp atmosphere. Production by Cie SNAUT; costumes by Coralie Chauvin and sound by Cédric Simon.
In French.
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