23 – 25 April

Passages secrets

Booking Required

Directed by Nicolas Chapoulier, Passages secrets stages an in-situ, hybrid performance where adolescents rework the voices of older generations through movement, video and live sound. Scenography by Johanna Rocard frames metamorphoses and fragile carnivalesque scenes, while composer Franck Serpinet and Chapoulier’s sound writing sculpt the aural landscape. An external sociology collaborator, Jocelyn Lachance, informs the piece’s social layering. The atmosphere oscillates between ritual, humour and unsettling intimacy, letting adolescence unfold as a luminous, unruly passage.

In French.
Ages 12 and up.

Route de Frontenex 56,
1207 Genève
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