Ballet

The Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève

2023-2024 Season

2023-2024 Season

Elements
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet
18-22 Nov 2023
Noetic / Faun / Boléro

This Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui retrospective is brought together in three elements

An unusual, yet dramatically plausible, reading of a Mozart opera

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui teams up with visual artist, Chiharu Shiota, and together, leading the dancers of the Geneva Ballet and soloists from Cherkaoui’s own Eastman Company, they will thread and unthread bodies, ropes, and wounded hearts.

Planet [wanderer]
Damien Jalet & Kohei Nawa
8-10 Mar 2024
Between mobile sculpture and sculptural performance

After their first mobile sculptural performance Vessel, Franco-Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet and Japanese visual artist Kohei Nawa offer Planet [wanderer]

Outsider
Rachid Ouramdane
3- 5 May 2024
When danger becomes an act of rationalisation

Used to work on transdisciplinary projects, Rachid Ouramdane will be taking on the dancers of the Geneva Ballet for a La Plage special edition.

Forces
Aszure Barton, Sharon Eyal
12-16 Jun 2024
BUSK / STRONG

This double dance bill presents the emblematic works of two women at the choreographic forefront of our time.


The company

In 1962, the Grand Théâtre de Genève acquired a permanent ballet company, made up of 22 artists, offering two original choreographic creations per season. Collaborating with choreographers of international renown, over the course of its performances, it has built a worldwide reputation for itself. Today, whilst the premieres are always held in Geneva, the Geneva Ballet frequently performs outside Switzerland (France, Italy, United States, Russia, Australia, China, Brazil, South Africa…). From the 22–23 Season, the Ballet is under the management of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

About Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Geneva Ballet Director

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is a globally celebrated figure like few others in dance today: a brilliant auteur-choreographer, with roughly a hundred shows under his belt, touring all around the planet, and former artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders (2015-22). The Belgian-Moroccan’s choreographic oeuvre overflows with memorable productions, some of which originated in Geneva (Loin, 2005) and others on great stages and video sets all over the world (Puz/zle at the Avignon Festival in 2012, to name but one). For Marina Abramović’s maiden voyage as scenographer, and with Damien Jalet as co-creator, Cherkaoui’s whirling, shadowy and darkly mechanical interpretation of Ravel’s Bolero for the Paris Opera Ballet was a sensation at the Palais Garnier in 2013 and remains one of his most iconic pieces. The trio reformed for Pelléas et Mélisande in 2018 at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; a production which was reprised and live streamed in Geneva. From dancer colleagues to creative partners, Cherkaoui and Jalet form a unique artistic bond: it is only logical that Damien Jalet should join Cherkaoui and the Geneva Ballet as an associate artist.

Dancers

Yumi
Aizawa
Céline
Alain
Adelson
Carlos
Zoé
Charpentier
Quintin
Cianci
Oscar Comesaña
Salgueiro
Diana Dias
Duarte
Armando
Gonzalez Besa
Ricardo
Macedo
Emilie
Meeus
Juan
Perez Cardona
Luca
Scaduto
Sara
Shigenari
Geoffrey
Van Dyck
Nahuel
Vega
Madeline
Wong

The Company

Director of the Ballet
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Company Executive Manager
Florent Mollet

Deputy Assistant
Vitorio Casarin

Administrative Coordinator
Léa Caufin

Ballet Masters
Aurélie Gaillard
Angela Lee Rebelo
Pascal Marty
Manuel Renard

Pianists
Elena Braito
Antonio Costa
Serafima Demianova

BALLET TECHNIQUE
Technical director of the ballet
Rudy Parra

Stage manager
Alexandre Ramos

Lighting manager
Sébastien Babel

Sound & Video manager
Jean-Pierre Barbier

Medical service
Dr Silvia Bonfanti
Dr Victoria Duthon
(Hirslanden Clinique La Colline)

Physiotherapists
Anne Catherine Froton
Thomas Meister
Thomas Richter

Massage therapists
Imane Chabbouh
Cyrille Harreau
Marc Hwang
Kim Schifferli

On Tour

On tour

Find out the GTG Ballet’s tour dates.

September 2023

Septembre 29 & 30, 2023
TorinoDanza Festival, Fonderie Limone / Torino, Italy
Ukiyo-e, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Septembre 6 & 7, 2023
Festival RomaEuropa, Auditorium Parco della Musica / Roma, Italy
Ukiyo-e, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
September 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 & 19, 2023
La Biennale de Lyon, Maison de la Danse / Lyon, France
Ukiyo-e, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

October 2023

Octobre 3 & 4, 2023
Théâtre des Salins, scène nationale / Martigues, France
Ukiyo-e, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Octobre 8, 2023
Baluarte / Pamplona, Spain
Ukiyo-e, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
October 11, 12, 13 & 14, 2023
Theatro Real / Madrid, Espagne
Faun, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Ukiyo-e, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

December 2023

Decembre 7 2023
Festival de Danse / Cannes, France
Skid, choreography by Damien Jalet
Vïa, choreography by Fouad Boussouf
December 15, 2023
Festspielhaus / St Pölten, Austria
Skid, choreography by Damien Jalet
Vïa, choreography by Fouad Boussouf

January 2024

January 9, 2024
Graf Zeppelin Haus / Friedrichshafen, Germany
Faun, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Vïa, choreography by Fouad Boussouf
January 12 & 13, 2024
Forum am Schlosspark / Ludwigsburg, Germany
Vïa, choreography by Fouad Boussouf
Noetic, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
January 19, 20 & 21, 2024
De Singel / Anvers, Belgium
Skid, choreography by Damien Jalet
Through, choreography by Damien Jalet
January 27 & 28, 2024
Théâtre de Caen / Caen, France
Faun, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Noetic, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
January 31, 2024
La Maison / Nevers, France
Faun, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Noetic, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

February – March 2024

February 27, 28, 29 & March 1, 2024
Liceu / Barcelona, Spain
em>Faun, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Noetic, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

June 2024

June 21, 22, 23 & 24, 2024
Théâtre La Villette / Paris, France
Outsider, choreography by Rachid Ouramdane

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