Stefan Kaegi had a robot built to resemble, as identical, the German writer Thomas Melle. On stage, he tells the life story of his role model, a succesful writer who was thrust into the limelight after publishing a book on bipolarity, on the story of informatics pioneer Alan Turing... Stefan Kaegi plays with this “Uncanny Valley” that exists between humans and robots.
In the circus tent, the acrobats and tightrope walkers Titoune and Bonaventure Gacon come face to face, suspended between busted depths and a chime of dreams. Clumsily yet tenderly, they lug around their madcap a world of warm surprises and brotherhood.
Mis en scène par les codirecteurs de la Comédie de Genève.
Frank Castorf, the agitator of German theatre, has adapted Racine and combined this material with texts by Artaud. His art of theatrical and vital immoderation explores how, when it comes to this classical French author, the tragedy of existence is born from collusions between private passions and power.
The actor Gabino Rodríguez found a job as a factory worker in the Mexican city of Tijuana, concealing his identity for months on end. Summoning films, recordings and texts, he reveals the life conditions of his compatriots while highlighting the ethical questions thrown up by this immersive documentary.
Olivia Pedroli, the singer from Neuchâtel, imagines a theatre of voices: an experience that summons visual materials as much as sounds. Alone on stage with her piano and instruments, sitting in the centre of a multimedia apparatus which makes images resonate with sounds, she invites us on a dreamlike musical journey into the folds of time.
The theatrical trilogy of author Antoinette Rychner embraces with a wide look and not without humor contemporary Switzerland. Maya Bösch directs a polyphonic and transgressive theatrical choir to stimulate debate on everyday situations, knowledge and collective memories.
A Flamenco dancer from Seville and a pianist from Lausanne join forces on the Vidy stage for a new show inspired by a masterpiece of 20th century music, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. An exceptional night in two parts: a dance solo to Stravinsky’s Reduction for Piano Duet, followed by another to a creation by Sylvie Courvoisier.
The Congolese artist Faustin Linyekula has used theatre and dance to stage Eric Vuillard’s novel Congo, which relates the story of the Berlin Conference of 1884 during which Africa was partitioned. Together they speak about colonial history and its violence, and about the memory and wounds of a country, thus enlightening our present.
Geneviève Pasquier and Nicolas Rossier bring to the stage the famous diary of the German-born Jewish teenager, written between 1942 and 1944, when she was between 12 and 14 years old and living in hiding. The piece bears witness to her intent quality of observation, and opens up her account to universal concerns.
A plane crashes at sea near a desert island and eight survivors will reinvent a life together. Merging Jules Verne, disaster films and the television series Lost, Crash Park is a colourful theatrical fantasy, a playful waking dream which invites us to imagine other possible worlds.
Chloé Moglia is an athlete, circus artist, researcher and distinguished trapeze artist. L’Oiseau-Lignes was born from the dialogue between the acrobat and the saxophonist Marielle Chatain. Together, they turn risk into an opportunity for reinventing our relationship to the world.
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A theatrical and auditory journey with poetic and political accents: Volia Panic merges a visual universe made of hemp, wood, and iron, with the unbridled energy of a punk-rock theatre-concert, thus evoking the Russian fascination for the cosmos, from the poet-philosophers of the 19th century to Gagarin’s first flight.
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