21 November – 5 December

Léopold Lemarchand

Booking Required

Created by Léopold Lemarchand and Cyril Hives and directed by Nicolas Vital, this intimate theatrical piece navigates grief, memory and unexpected tenderness. The performer blends sharp humour with quiet moments, telling fragments about death, a chihuahua and a grandmother. The staging favors intimate lighting and a spare mise en scène, allowing language and timing to shape surprising emotional shifts. The work alternates between melancholy and comic relief, offering a bittersweet portrait of loss and care.

In French.

Salle Centrale de la Madeleine,
Rue de la Madeleine 10, 1204 Geneva

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Photo Credit: DR

9 – 11 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Gounouj in Situ

Performances

Musée Ariana

Choreographed by Léo Lérus, Gounouj in situ is an intimate, physical dance for four performers that evokes fragile, living landscapes. Rooted in gwoka rhythms and inspired by the creole concept of bousyè, the work blends traditional and contemporary vocabularies to explore vulnerability, transformation and resistance. Bodies shift between human and amphibious states across a sensory soundscape of bird song and marine breath, transforming the stage into a moving ecosystem and proposing a fragile possibility of new balance.

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27 August – 18 October

Scène Vagabonde Festival 2026

Performances

Théâtre Cæcilia

Scène Vagabonde’s seventh edition brings a compact program of contemporary theatre and music, presenting three contrasting stage works — “Par le bout du nez”, “Quadrille” and “Prima facie” — alongside a concert by Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp as part of La Bâtie-Festival de Genève. Across intimate stagings the festival favors inventive direction, close ensemble interplay and a balance of wit and intensity, offering encounters that privilege physical presence, tonal variety and rigorous dramaturgy.

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28 August – 13 September

Cirque Knie in Geneva

Performances

Plaine de Plainpalais

Cirque Knie presents a family-oriented, large-scale circus spectacle combining athletic acrobatics, equestrian artistry and choreographed variety numbers. The programme balances fast-paced technical acts and poetic interludes, with careful staging, lighting and live musical accompaniment to create moments of wonder and humour. Suitable for children from four years upwards, the show prioritises accessibility and comfort while offering an immersive, theatrical atmosphere that blends tradition and contemporary circus aesthetics.

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9 – 12 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Shabaab

Performances

Théâtre du Grütli

Samar Haddad King’s Shabaab blends dance, theatre and puppetry to trace the intimate bond between two Palestinian friends, Mohamed and Mahmoud. Through movement, dialogue and a haunting puppet by Sipho Ngxola, the piece reconstructs memories, imagined futures and the silences carved by colonial violence. The choreography explores youth, tenderness and forms of resistance, creating a fragile space where friendship becomes a means of survival and poetic witness.

In English and Arabic with French surtitles.

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10 – 12 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Une Rencontre Suspendue

Performances

Musée Ariana

An intimate aerial encounter, Une rencontre suspendue brings together hair suspension, acrobatic play, guitar harmonies and a textured singing voice. Conceived by the collective Association VOILÀ VOILÀ, this short creation features aerial acrobat Lili Parson Piguet and musician Jeanne Pâris. The piece mixes fragile physicality and musical intimacy to trace a delicate complicity between movement and sound, where everyday materials become instruments of tension and tenderness. Presented as a compact, sensory performance within the festival context.

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11 – 13 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Confabulations

Performances

Temple de Saint-Gervais

Created and performed by Diederik Peeters, Confabulations blurs the boundary between reality and illusion. Playing a psychiatrist, Peeters uses archival material, historical narratives and personal testimonies to probe memory, perception and confabulation. The staging mixes shifting visual worlds, forensic references and moments of hallucination to produce an unsettling, lyrical investigation of psychiatry, neurology and neurodivergent experience. Second instalment of a trilogy following Apparitions (2018), the piece invites a vertiginous reflection on truth and remembrance.

In French.

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Léopold Lemarchand