Close the season with your family by experiencing an enchanting musical tale that combines psychedelic folk, swinging rhythms, and absurd poetry. Led by the duo Cyril Cyril and joined by two additional musicians, this show offers an imaginative road trip filled with tender humor and captivating melodies, blurring the lines between dream, music, and storytelling for a playful and uninhibited experience.
Written by Penda Diouf and staged by Evelyne Castellino, LA GRANDE OURSE is an ecofeminist fable that traces a mother’s descent after a minor incident becomes criminalized. Combining video, choreographed movement and choral voices, the piece weaves police violence, racism and sexism into a hallucinatory, dystopian world where omnipresent surveillance watches every gesture. As the heroine reconnects with ancestral nature by transforming into a bear, the production evokes animal survival instinct, collective gossip and the fragile line between humanity and wildness, offering a visceral, poetic reflection on power and resistance.
In French.
Inspired by Martin Panchaud’s graphic novel, this show tells the story of Simon, a bullied teenager who unexpectedly wins a fortune at the horse races, altering his life dramatically. Michel Lavoie presents a hyper-realistic and poetic production, blending investigative storytelling with visual theater. It explores themes of identity, resilience, and family dynamics, appealing to both young audiences and adults, ensuring a broad and engaging experience for all.
In French. Kids ages 12 and up.
When we hear the word “family,” we often think of our own. But today, with so many different models, what truly defines a family?
In this playful, child-friendly performance, Muriel Imbach explores these questions through six whimsical characters — futuristic poets who reflect on chosen families, blended families, and the invisible bonds that connect us. A poetic journey into what it means to “make family” today.
In French. Kids ages 8 and up.
Sur Le Temps brings together Ensemble Batida, a contemporary trio of percussionists (Alexandra Bellon, Anne Briset, Jeanne Larrouturou), and the vocal quartet Contre le Temps, whose female voices specialise in medieval repertoire. The programme juxtaposes organum with open improvisation, exploring the distance between a centuries‑old vocal practice and an intensified attention to the present. The first part presents organum; later the musicians engage in improvised encounters that blur historical and contemporary sound worlds.
The project is organised by Ensemble Vide, an interdisciplinary platform for contemporary music and artistic research.
Created by Aurélie Hubeau and Lucie Hanoy, L’IMPOSTURE is a comic and poetic exploration of doubt, self-image and belonging. The piece follows a woman who describes herself as too small, obese, ugly and a tomboy, and recounts how she forged an identity in today’s world. Using objects, clothing and puppets manipulated with inventive choreography, the performance weaves humor, poetry and music — from Patrick Bruel to gospel and karaoke — to celebrate difference and question social norms, delivering warmth and poignancy.
In French.
A powerful operatic diptych directed by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel, in partnership with the Grand Théâtre de Genève, L’Empereur d’Atlantis, preceded by En vertu de…, unfolds across two iconic venues in one evening.
The first part, staged at the UN, explores contemporary democratic fragilities through Eugene Birman’s modern work, before the audience moves to the Comédie de Genève for Viktor Ullmann’s haunting chamber opera composed in a concentration camp during WWII—a dark, ironic fable on tyranny, death, and the madness of absolute power.
In French, English & German with surtitles in French and English.
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