Directed by Vania Jaikin Miyazaki, Does Your Life Swing? is a short road‑movie musical that follows Pierre Omer’s band on tour through Europe, capturing concerts, travel and backstage moments. The screening is followed by a live set led by Pierre Omer, where swing, blues, garage and cabaret‑tinged atmospheres meet raw energy and theatricality. The band features Christoph Gantert (trumpet, vocals), Julien Israelian (drums, percussion), Géraldine Schenkel (organ) and fakir/dancer Lalla Morte.
Told as a solo performance, this piece follows a woman as she remembers the films that shaped her life and blurs the line between cinema and memory. Through references to science-fiction sagas and cinematic archetypes — the woman-soldier, the survivor, the reluctant mother — the show probes identity, fear of change and the ways stories migrate from screen to skin. Sparse staging and intimate narration create a haunting, introspective atmosphere.
In French.
Amants à mi-temps explores the rhythms of contemporary relationships through intimate theatrical language. A compact cast shifts perspectives with precise staging, subtle movement and a keen sense of timing. The piece balances tenderness and irony, employing spare scenic touches and atmospheric lighting to expose the quiet negotiations and small compromises of love. The result is both poignant and wry, rendered with close attention to rhythm and tone.
In French.
György Kurtág, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music, is celebrated in a programme shaped around short, intensely concentrated forms. Drawing on Bartók and Webern while remaining wholly singular, his poetry of gesture unfolds through pieces for violin, viola and cello. The HEM, long connected to the composer through masterclasses and past projects, extends its Kurtág cycle with works from Signs, games and messages, set in dialogue with music from other eras and a new miniature by Danielle Goldstein.
Curating traditional and contemporary Celtic expressions, this festival gathers musicians, singers and dancers from Scotland, Ireland, Galicia and beyond. Artists such as The Curious Bards, Norðan and Donald MacInley present concerts, storytelling, dance and screenings that weave myths, languages and coastal landscapes into layered performances. The programme alternates intimate sessions, communal music-making and cinematic moments, balancing archival traditions with contemporary reinterpretations to create an evocative, sea-borne atmosphere of memory and movement.
L’homme oreiller is a poetic, physical theatre piece that explores sleep, memory and intimacy through fragmented scenes and inventive stagecraft. The performance blends subtle movement, atmospheric soundscapes and minimalist design to evoke shifting states between wakefulness and dream. The ensemble cultivates a fragile, tactile atmosphere where gestures accumulate meaning and silence speaks as loudly as action. The result is a meditative, emotionally resonant experience that lingers beyond the lights.
The Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève opens one of the final rehearsals of Océans, a choreographic diptych pairing Damien Jalet’s Brise-lames with River Without Banks, a new creation by Kyle Abraham. This public glimpse into the studio reveals the company at work through excerpts from Abraham’s choreography, where tension, flow and physical precision meet. The rehearsal offers a vivid encounter with a work shaped by contrasting energies and a strongly contemporary movement language.
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