Saturday 14 November, 19:30

Kurtág

Free

György Kurtág, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music, is celebrated in a programme shaped around short, intensely concentrated forms. Drawing on Bartók and Webern while remaining wholly singular, his poetry of gesture unfolds through pieces for violin, viola and cello. The HEM, long connected to the composer through masterclasses and past projects, extends its Kurtág cycle with works from Signs, games and messages, set in dialogue with music from other eras and a new miniature by Danielle Goldstein.

Place de Neuve 5,
1204 Genève

Photo Credit: DR

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Photo Credit: DR

Tuesday 10 November, 19:30

Nessi Gomes & Mike Rauss

Performances

Alhambra

British‑Portuguese singer-songwriter Nessi Gomes and Barcelona‑based Mike Rauss present an evening of intimate, genre-blending song. Gomes weaves traditional Portuguese fado’s emotional depth with a contemporary British sensibility, producing haunting, lushly textured soundscapes and medicine‑singer mysticism; her acclaimed album Diamonds & Demons foregrounds this quiet intensity. Mike Rauss offers playful yet profound troubadour songs where funk, folk, oriental motifs and flamenco guitar meet a warm, grooving voice. Together they create an atmosphere of ritual, longing and raw presence.

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9 – 12 November

Masson/Duboule/Ruiz/Vandenbulcke

Performances

Lex Madone

Assembled at the initiative of Vincent Ruiz and Nicolas Masson, this newly formed quartet offers an open, democratic interpretation of recent compositions by Nicolas Masson. The project blends composed material and responsive improvisation, allowing structures to emerge and be shaped in real time. The ensemble—Nicolas Masson (saxophone), Théo Duboule (guitar), Vincent Ruiz (double bass) and Nathan Vandenbulcke (drums)—explores textural interplay, collective listening and the elasticity of form in contemporary chamber jazz.

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30 October – 14 November

Sept — Dance and Film

Performances

Théâtre du Grütli

Four performers embody testimonies from different generations in Sept, situated at the crossroads of dance and film. Between intimate confidences and tender tableaux, the piece examines how age shapes us and stages a delicate exploration of what growing older means, revealing a shared humanity. The staging shifts between projected images and live bodies, weaving visual and physical layers to create an experience that is both poetic and unsettling.

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3 – 22 November

Retour au pays / Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Performances

Théâtre des Amis

Directed by Marie-José Malis, Retour au pays revisits Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s letters through a spare, lucid staging. Performers Alexandra Tiedemann and Juan Crespillo inhabit the returning merchant’s disorientation, while Aurélia Ansermet provides live music and sound. Bernard Héritier’s scenography and Jessy Ducatillon’s lighting shape moments of visual surprise, most poignantly a Van Gogh encounter that restores belief in the world. The piece refuses facile answers, offering theatrical lucidity and an austere emotional clarity.

In French.

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Tuesday 10 November, 19:00

Promenade Obligatoire

Performances

FURTHER AFIELD

Choreographer Anne Nguyen, rooted in breakdance battles and informed by scientific studies, rebuilds hip‑hop vocabulary with a mathematical sensuality. Promenade Obligatoire stages an uninterrupted, ordered march across the performance space that becomes a meditation on life’s meaning and the passage of time. Popping—blocks, isolations and body dissociations—sharpens contrasts between rupture and mimicry. The explosive, precise gestures transform the inexorable walk into a hypnotic, transportive experience that explores repetition, synchronization and the poetry of everyday movement.

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22 September – 29 November

La Demande en mariage et l’ours

Performances

Théâtre de Carouge

Two short plays by Anton Chekhov staged by Tibor Ockenfels and Flavie Tapparel, presented as compact dramatic machines where romantic comedy masks escalating confrontations between desire, affection and material interest. Performances rely on precise physical timing, terse exchanges and a lean, playful design to reveal the simmering violence behind courtship rituals. The three actors — Estelle Bridet, Matteo Prandi and Raphaël Vachoux — inhabit heightened character types that shift between farce and darker comic truth, creating a sharply observed, kinetic evening.

In French.

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