For this opening evening of the Lectures en résonance season, Espace Saint-Gervais pays tribute to Geneva writer Georges Haldas. Joël Waefler reads from Haldas’s evocative pages on Geneva’s café culture, while Miriam Fernández accompanies the text on guitar. Together, word and music conjure a vanished city of popular bistros, familiar faces and everyday life, all filtered through Haldas’s humane gaze and his gift for finding the pulse of “real life” in the ordinary.
In French.
Double Jeu is a sharp, playful improvisation show built around strategy, split-second choices and mutual misdirection. Each performer receives a secret mission and must weave it discreetly into the action, turning every scene into a live game of influence, bluff and comic escalation. The result is fast, unpredictable theatre where the ensemble’s timing, listening and inventiveness keep the audience guessing until the very last exchange.
In French.
Dive into the heart of GIFF NIGHTS, the unmissable nighttime event where the Geneva International Film Festival fuses cinema, digital creation, and electronic music. Set against a spectacular backdrop brought to life by audiovisual performances and vibrant DJ sets, these extraordinary evenings transform the space into a unique, immersive, and festive experience—the perfect setting to gather, dance, and celebrate contemporary culture long into the night.
Led by Ahmed Madani and a troupe of young performers, this vibrant, joyful performance gathers choir, intimate video narratives, dance, live music and the sonic textures of protests in an interactive agora. The staging blends collective singing, personal testimony and physical theatre to explore youth engagement, solidarity and the emergence of shared pathways. The piece is electrifying and tender, inviting audiences into an energetic communal experience.
In French.
Directed and performed by Vincent Babel and Alexandre Diakoff, À l’ombre de Calvin blends text, music and film to retrace key moments and hidden facets of John Calvin’s life. Bruno Miquel acts as narrator while Silvia Fabiani contributes evocative video, and a children’s choir prepared by Emmanuel Meliz joins the cathedral choir and instrumental ensemble under Florence Kraft’s direction. The staging balances historical reflection and poetic imagery to engage audiences of all ages.
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.
Two incandescent works meet in a programme of ardent passion and doomed desire. Janáček’s Zápisník zmizelého (The Diary of One Who Disappeared), here in Laurent Cuniot’s arrangement, stages the feverish confession of a young peasant enthralled by a gypsy; Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo (1915 version) conjures Andalusian rites, flamenco rhythms and orchestral heat. Isabelle Druet and tenor Petr Nekoranec lead the vocal drama, with the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève in a co-production marking de Falla’s 150th anniversary.
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