Thursday 12 February, 19:30

Open Stage

Performances

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An open stage that invites performers to explore voice and presence. Participants — musicians, singers, poets, actors and curious newcomers — share short performances within a warm, inclusive atmosphere. Supportive professional artists offer guidance and artistic feedback, helping participants build confidence and experiment with new ideas. The event emphasises collective listening, creative risk-taking and expressive voice work, creating intimate encounters that highlight vulnerability, play and growth.

Avenue Rosemont 14,
1208 Genève

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11 – 13 February

Chiara Bersani — Sottobosco

Performances

Pavillon ADC

Choreographer Chiara Bersani invites the audience into the undergrowth of an imagined forest, performed in duo with dancer Elena Sgarbossa and a group of workshop participants. The piece stages bodies limited by disability to probe movement, survival and collective care. Inspired by confinement and the inequalities revealed by the pandemic, it turns the stage into an ecosystem — a vibrating floor, layered soundscape and a shared spatial attention — where small gestures, bodily memory and vulnerability become transformative forces and the basis for a newly imagined community.

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11 – 13 February

Complete Játékok cycle

Performances

Conservatoire de Musique de Genève

Artistic direction by Cédric Pescia frames a collective traversal of György Kurtág’s landmark piano cycle Játékok, performed by students and young pianists from HEM, CMG, CPMDT, IJD and pre‑college programmes. The cycle presents Books I–X alongside the world premiere of the unpublished Book XI, a sequence of miniatures that are playful yet exacting. The repertoire explores gesture, texture and concentrated musical language, creating an intimate sonic landscape that balances delicate detail with sudden bursts of intensity. Presented for Kurtág’s centenary and CMG’s 190th anniversary.

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Thursday 12 February, 19:30

An Evening of Serenades

Performances

Victoria Hall

On the eve of Valentine’s Day, the Peace Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Nikolay Khozyainov, will present an evening of serenades by Elgar, Dvořák, and Tchaikovsky. Based in Geneva, this orchestra brings together internationally renowned musicians with a mission to promote peace through music. Khozyainov, an acclaimed pianist and conductor, has an impressive career and founded this ensemble to unite people through the powerful influence of music.

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11 – 15 February

Kevin

Performances

Théâtre le douze dix-huit

The company Chantal et Bernadette explores, with both naïveté and documentary precision, the foundations and challenges of the education system through the story of Kévin, who feels let down by it. By merging scientific inquiry with theatrical expression, they engage the audience’s critical thinking. This production is a collaborative creation by Arnaud Hoedt, Jérôme Piron, Antoine Defoort, and Clément Thirion, developed in close partnership with researchers, with special attention to set design and technical aspects.

In French.

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5 – 15 February

LETTRE À MON DICTATEUR

Performances

POCHE /GVE

Directed by Geneviève Pasquier and performed by Vincent Babel, LETTRE À MON DICTATEUR stages Eugène’s cathartic gesture of writing to Nicolae Ceauşescu. The production blends intimate monologue with archival echoes, folding fragments of Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue into a jazz-tinged score that punctuates memory and revelation. The creative space favors spare tableaux, tactile sound textures and a nimble rhythm that offsets historical weight with mischievous warmth, transforming personal trauma into a tender, witty coming-of-age confession.

In French.

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11 & 12 February

Antigel Festival – Faire Fleurir

Performances

Usine à Gaz

Nicolas Fayol performs a striking solo that confines the body to a 1.5‑metre landscape, exploring what a man becomes when he can no longer stand. Through contortions, breaths and improvised encounters between hands and feet, he invents new physical vocabularies that blend acrobatics, yoga and hip‑hop. Bathed in precise lighting and accompanied live by the duo Mont Analogue, the piece shifts between animal, child and prehistoric forms, offering a tactile, intimate meditation on human posture and transformation.

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