4 – 5 September

Zanco – 20th Anniversary Show

Free

Directed by Yuval Dishon, Zanco’s 20th Anniversary Show revisits five emblematic creations in a mobile, immersive promenade. Performers including committee members Vlady Wagner, Micha Hersch and Cyril Lenz animate papier‑mâché ghosts, masks and puppetry, accompanied by music from POL and Guillaume Lagger and sound design by Ivan Verda. The artistic team (Stella Giuliani, Jessica Haener, Olga Andreichikova, Mehdi Duman, Dinu Corminboeuf, Oliver Robertson) reframes memory, language and myth to probe democratic crisis, fear and social fragmentation in a nocturnal, poetic atmosphere.

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Photo Credit: Miriam Kerchenbaum

4 – 6 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp

Performances

Multiple locations

Geneva’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp offers a nomadic musical odyssey that blends fervent rhythms, sonic experimentation and a spirit of freedom. For nearly twenty years the collective has shaped a distinctive sound: layered voices, interweaving textures and songs that confront the present without succumbing to despair. Carried by an impressive constellation of brass, strings, percussion, marimbas and guitars, more than fifteen musicians create generous, mobile and intensely alive music that moves between communal celebration and joyful escape.

Friday 4 September, 22:00: La Parfumerie
Saturday 5 September, 22:00: Scène Caecilia
Sunday 6 September,22:00: cave12

Additional free performances:

Friday 4 September 18:00: Parc du Château Voltaire
Saturday 5 September 15:00: Parc Battelle – Maison de Quartier des Grands-Hutins
Saturday 5 September 18:00: Esplanade du Lignon
Sunday 6 September 13:00: Promenade Rivoire

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1 – 5 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Such a Devoted Bunch

Performances

Pavillon ADC

Choreographer Ruth Childs and visual artist Cécile Bouffard explore guilty pleasures, hobbies and obsessions in an installation-performance for three dancers: Cosima Grand, Marta Capaccioli and mona mioca felah. Blending gestures and objects, Such a Devoted Bunch examines mechanisms of devotion and collective ritual, turning ancestral and anecdotal practices into material for community and shared enthusiasm. The work gathers a whimsical cluster of bodies and forms that respond, repel and embrace, offering a tactile, intimate theatrical experience.

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3 – 4 September

Festival de la Bâtie – How Romantic

Performances

La Comédie de Genève

Choreographer Katerina Andreou stages a raw, physical dance work that propels fourteen performers from the Norwegian company Carte Blanche into an endurance-like marathon. Drawing on the dance marathons of the Great Depression, the piece explores desire, fatigue, power and the human need for connection as bodies cling, push and exhaust themselves within a hypnotic pulse. Between collective trance, biting irony and uncontrollable vitality, the choreography stages the tension between chaos and control and our fascination with performance and intimacy.

In English and multilingual (sung parts only).

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2 – 5 September

Les mondes qui nous manquent

Performances

Théâtre de l'Orangerie

Three performers plunge into the ideas of Mark Fisher to question why imagining different futures has become so difficult. On stage, electronic music, rap, projected texts like slogans, militant karaoke and a miniature dancefloor collide. Each performer circulates with an alter ego — a kitsch, radical, excessive version of themselves — as identities slip, overlap and are improvised live. Produced by Superprod in coproduction with La Bâtie and TO!.

In French.

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3 – 5 September

Pachamama Connexion Festival 2026

Community Performances

Parc Marignac

The Pachamama Connexion Festival is a warm, community-focused celebration that brings people together through music, visual arts and world cuisine. Open to everyone, it mixes concerts, international flavors, art installations and convivial encounters to create an inclusive, creative atmosphere. Families, neighbours and newcomers are invited to connect, exchange stories and share activities that nurture community bonds. The seventh edition is announced with programming to come.

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3 – 6 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Vous avez les mêmes en 38 ?

Performances

Le Poche

Performed and directed by Eve Aouizerate, this incisive solo creation blends autofiction and faux stand-up to turn fairy-tale promises into a sharp satire. Using humour and precise stagecraft, Aouizerate interrogates reactionary online imaginaries and the contemporary allure of tradwives, exposing tensions between domestic idealisation and feminist inheritance. The piece mixes intimate confession, comic timing and critical observation to probe identity, boredom and the pressures shaping women’s lives.

In French.

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