7 – 9 May

Lili Parson Piguet

Lili Parson Piguet presents a solo circus performance blending cyr wheel, capilotraction and acrobatic monologue. Parson Piguet is the creator and performer, with dramaturgy by Adina Secretan and creative support from Basile Herrmann Philippe. Lighting is by Tiki, sound by Gaspard Perdrisat and costumes by Marie Romanens. The piece moves between tenderness and mischief, leading the audience through a poetic drift where fiction and reality meet.

In French.

Esplanade Alice-Bailly 1,
1207 Genève
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Photo Credit: DR

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