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Les choses graves
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Claire Dessimoz
from Friday, 5 December 2025 to Sunday, 7 December 2025
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
What kind of strange creature is this? Her entire body is going through a slow-motion whirlwind of intense emotions. Is she afraid? Is she angry? Is she remembering painful experiences? The pianist accompanying her is asking himself the same questions. Claire Dessimoz has created a duet aimed at young and older alike, performed by Anne Delahaye and Louis Bonard. First there is contemplation and introspection, then confessions... They recall the superlatives of childhood: their biggest shames, their biggest fears, their biggest blunders, the things that seemed serious to them back then.
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Géométrie de vies
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Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Michael Disanka/Christiana Tabaro
from Friday, 5 December 2025 to Sunday, 7 December 2025
Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Géométrie de vies is a poem for the stage written, directed and performed by Michael Disanka and Christiana Tabaro. Through words, song and dance, they retrace the paths their lives have taken, from childhood to the theatre, from Mbanza-Ngungu and Bukavu to Kinshasa. As an imaginary wall separates them, memories emerge, evoking flight, exile and memory. Impeded, stammering speech interweaves stories and voices, recounting stymied quests for identity while illuminating the contemporary history of the Congo.
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And Here I Am
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Ahmed Tobasi
Sunday, 7 December 2025 19:00
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Based on the life and performed by Ahmed Tobasi, this gripping coming-of-age story spans the First and Second Intifada. From the battle-scarred alleys of Jenin Camp to the confines of Israeli prison, we follow his epic journey from armed resistance against invasion to cultural resistance against eradication. Combining fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, award-winning writer Hassan Abdulrazzak captures an extraordinary odyssey of defiance and the unbreakable pursuit of freedom.
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Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Soa Ratsifandrihana
from Thursday, 11 December 2025 to Saturday, 13 December 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna - these three Malagasy words that sound so similar signify comparison, transmission and rivalry. Soa Ratsifandrihana has composed a joyous and dazzling choreographic quartet intertwining dance, music and stories that convey the memory of colonised territories and diaspora, including that of the four performers. Bolstered by formidable virtuosity and contagious energy, foreign traditions and ancestral gestures meet, dialogue and build upon each other as they wander and explore an unprecedented, generous and luminous interplay of cultures.
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Composer les mondes
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Eliza Levi / Philippe Descola
Saturday, 13 December 2025 16:00
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Projection et rencontre
À partir d’où repenser notre monde pour le transformer ? Philippe Descola a consacré sa vie d’anthropologue à étudier comment les humains composaient leurs mondes. Le film l’emmène incarner ses idées, en dialogue avec les non-humains tout autour de nous. La réalisatrice Eliza Levy compose et fabrique un récit-portrait vivifiant et stimulant d’un des grands penseurs des infinies relations entre nature et culture.
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G r oo v e
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Soa Ratsifandrihana
from Tuesday, 16 December 2025 to Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Soa Ratsifandrihana remembers her early youth, when her family members would all try to find the right sequence for the right music. Everyone wanted to groove. With a title that evokes the groove of a record, a familiar rhythm, this solo spreads the simple and immediate pleasure of dancing. Borrowing from the grooves of her childhood, she advances, close by, in the shadows, switching from one rhythm to another, in a perpetual reinvention of dance, of the self, and of the intensity of the present.
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Le Sommet
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Christoph Marthaler
from Tuesday, 16 December 2025 to Thursday, 18 December 2025
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
For his sixth show at Vidy, Christoph Marthaler has brought together six actors and musicians from Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria and Scotland for an expedition... to the summit. Gipfel in German means ‘summit’, and can refer to a mountain peak or a political conference, but also... a Parisian pastry. Which of these will be the subject of this new play? In the musical theatre of this brilliant Swiss-German director, people sing, often lose their way, and sometimes find what they were not looking for. Humour and music do the rest. Much like Europe, which is searching for its bearings, there can be no doubt that the summit will be reached, though the paths to get there might be tortuous.
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Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Radouan Mriziga
from Tuesday, 13 January 2026 to Thursday, 15 January 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is a classical music “hit”, a piece of music rooted in Mediterranean culture and a celebration of the continuous variations of nature. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga, accompanied by the lively and refreshing playing of violinist Amandine Beyer, explore together the infinite, generous layers of Vivaldi’s composition by choreographing a male quartet: rhythmic structures, mythological figures and symbolic arrangements trace our understanding of nature in time and space — and interrogate the alarming relationship we share with it today.
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Chroniken vom Mars (Chroniques martiennes)
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Philippe Quesne / Theater Basel
from Wednesday, 21 January 2026 to Sunday, 25 January 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
In front of a giant green screen, a reincarnation of science fiction author Ray Bradbury embarks on a film adaptation of his Martian Chronicles, published in 1950. In this collection of stories, he recounts the colonisation of Mars, bringing with it human idealism, greed and violence. Philippe Quesne imagines the making of a deliriously retro-futuristic live theatre film, mischievously questioning the projections of science fiction, the lyricism of conquest and the mindless exploitation of resources.
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Our Times
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Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Yasmine Hugonnet
from Wednesday, 21 January 2026 to Sunday, 1 February 2026
Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
A beat (of a heart, a metronome) and then nothing: expectation, restraint, silence. Do we wait for the next one, or stop, interrupt, die — or leave room for something else? Choreographer Yasmine Hugonnet’s new piece probes time, tempo and speed, attentive to moments of brilliance and diversion. Adapting to the venue, performing in a multifrontal space, three dancers explore the rhythmic signatures of our emotions.
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Hub des possibles "Et maintenant que faisons-nous?"
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Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
avec Flore Vasseur
Friday, 23 January 2026 19:00
Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Nous vous invitons à une rencontre avec l’écrivaine et réalisatrice Flore Vasseur dans le cadre du cycle de conférences "2040 j’y vais!" organisées par l'association Hub des possibles, en partenariat avec les libraires Payot, le Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne et le réseau Alumnil.
Vous pourrez assister à une projection/débat de son célèbre documentaire "Bigger than us". Un long métrage notamment sélectionné au Festival de Cannes en 2021, une ode au courage et à la clairvoyance de jeunes qui construisent le monde de demain. C’est aussi le refus de la résignation. Et la quête d’une réponse à cette question lancinante qu’a posé un jour à Flore Vasseur, son fils : "Et toi, tu fais quoi pour que la planète ne meure pas?"Rencontre organisée par le Hub des possibles / Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Payot Libraire, Réseau Alumil.
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Nous ou le paradoxe du hérisson
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Muriel Imbach
from Wednesday, 28 January 2026 to Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
What, and who, is a family? Is it a group of people who share compulsory ties, relationships of authority and memories? Where does the family begin and end? What happens to it when it is reconstituted - which relationships prevail and which are rebuilt? And what if we redefined it as a chosen family? Muriel Imbach has once again embarked on a long-term exploration, accompanied by children and philosophers, to create a show for audiences aged eight and over that mischievously mixes philosophy with fun.
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La vegetariana (La Végétarienne)
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Daria Deflorian
from Wednesday, 28 January 2026 to Sunday, 1 February 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
In Korea, an ordinary woman conforms to the forced banality of a patriarchal and traditionalist society. But one day, after a dream, she decides to become vegetarian. By this simple act of conviction, she challenges the oppressive frameworks that govern couples, families, desire and social order. Actress Daria Deflorian stages the unsettling novel that introduced Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature, to Europe. A powerful yet gentle performance in which the unpretentious determination of a woman, who identifies with plants and dares to open herself up to other realities, foils the violence of even the most rigid frameworks.
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Bowling Club Fantasy
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Julie Bugnard/Isumi Grichting
from Tuesday, 3 February 2026 to Thursday, 12 February 2026
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Parallel narratives intertwine: in a rather special bowling bar-club, an artist meets a music industry producer. The meeting doesn’t go well... Around them, a regular and a female customer seem to have emerged from another time, while a television set broadcasts a glitchy futuristic superhero film. Blending objectivist poetry and American cartoons, Lausanne-based company I finally found a place to call home continues its homegrown exploration of experimental narratives and improbable situations, in the purest tradition of genre films.
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Reconstitution : Le procès de Bobigny
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Hors les murs/Amphimax 351 - UNIL
Émilie Rousset / Maya Boquet
from Thursday, 5 February 2026 to Friday, 6 February 2026
Hors les murs/Amphimax 351 - UNIL
À partir d’une retranscription et de témoignages contemporains, Émilie Rousset et Maya Boquet convoquent en scène un événement déterminant dans l’avancée des droits des femmes : un procès de 1972, quand l’avocate Gisèle Halimi défendait une jeune fille accusée d’avortement suite à un viol.
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L'Écho
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Nacera Belaza / Valérie Dreville
from Tuesday, 10 February 2026 to Friday, 13 February 2026
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
The choreographer and dancer Nacera Belaza and the actress Valérie Dréville are two artists who have often presented their work at Vidy. They share a high artistic standard, a remarkable and renowned know-how and a taste for the unknown, the unexpected and for what cannot be formulated yet haunts beings, bodies and existences. They have come together for this duet — part theatre, part dance, but possibly neither — to listen to the breath at the origin of gesture and language: that full, tempo-less time during which the body is filled with words that cannot be expressed, the shadowy border between loss and spirituality.
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The Disappearing Act
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Yinka Esi Graves
from Tuesday, 10 February 2026 to Thursday, 12 February 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
The Disappearing Act is a danced and musical journey into the overlooked African origins of flamenco, devised and performed by Yinka Esi Graves. A British dancer of Ghanaian and Jamaican origins, she travelled to Seville to study flamenco in greater depth. On stage, she is joined by a singer, a flamenco guitarist and a drummer to bring these forgotten stories to life, including that of Miss LaLa, the Afro-descendant circus artist immortalised by Edgar Degas. How does one erase oneself in order to exist, while refusing to be denied? Somewhere between camouflage and resistance, Yinka Esi Graves transforms the act of disappearance into an artistic gesture.
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Lecture "Au temps de ma colère"
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Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Camille de Toledo
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 18:30
Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
En duo avec le musicien Valentin Mussou, Camille de Toledo lit son dernier livre, Au temps de ma colère : le dialogue avec le jeune qu’il était au début des années 2000, qui allait chercher la rupture familiale – et dans l’histoire des 50 dernières années – un prolongement à Thésée sa vie nouvelle, pour une re-naissance.
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Faire parler les archives des Non-alignés
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Mila Turajlić
from Tuesday, 24 February 2026 to Saturday, 28 February 2026
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Decolonisation, liberation movements, non-aligned countries: in this solo show, the Yugoslav filmmaker and artist Mila Turajlić explores previously unseen film footage in real time. She is guided through the archives of the Yugoslav television news by the director Stevan Labudović, who was the official cameraman for Tito, the former president of Yugoslavia. She traces the emergence of the Third Way, a political project put forward by a group of nations that did not wish to participate in the East-West logic of confrontation. Through this exploration, she asks: what can this political vision teach us about our own times?
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Ceci n’est pas une ambassade (Made in Taiwan)
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
from Tuesday, 24 February 2026 to Saturday, 28 February 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Three Taiwanese nationals from different generations – a digital activist, a former diplomat and a musician who is also the heiress to a bubble tea business – debate and describe their island and its history. Under the guise of theatrical fiction, together they imagine what an embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) might look like, despite their sometimes diverging views. Informed by numerous Taiwanese collaborations, Stefan Kaegi’s show invites audiences to discover a sensitive, cultural and political history of Asia that is often overlooked, holding up a mirror to European democracies.
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La révolte des zozios
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Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Nina Negri/Annick Rody
from Thursday, 5 March 2026 to Sunday, 8 March 2026
Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
On today’s menu: a cooking lesson. But the cooks are dreadful twits! Can these two grotesque and comical scoundrels stop playing tricks on each other long enough to share their recipe for bird and worm spaghetti? But their bottomless appetite soon turns against them, and the birds end up rebelling, filling the room with songs and music! This rambunctious yet poetic fable invites us to question the domination of humans over other living creatures by listening to our surroundings in a new, more sensitive and empathetic, way.
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Si me ves ir con todo, es porque a la noche lloro
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Baby Volcano/Lorena Stadelmann
from Friday, 6 March 2026 to Sunday, 15 March 2026
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
The musician Baby Volcano invites us to come together for a concert that is part artistic performance, part punk celebration. At the centre of an immersive video space, poised like a stressed and distressed prophetess, the singer and author conjures up a collective terrene refuge, stirred by the urgent need to reconnect that haunts her latest album, Supervivenxia (2025). The energy of trance and reggaeton combines with low frequencies and songs in this hybrid, fluid space, disrupted by Augustin Rebetez’s videos, echoed by intense, determined lyrics. It all comes together in an urgent and expansive drive to finally exist, to vibrate together.
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Les Enfants de Médée
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Milo Rau
from Saturday, 7 March 2026 to Sunday, 8 March 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Like Medea in Greek mythology, a mother takes revenge on her husband by murdering her children, then attempts suicide. This violent yet true crime story is told, for once, by children. Young actors and actresses seize upon this story and that of Medea with conviction in order to give their version of events and share their perspective on separation, injustice, the violence of adults, but also the future. Through theatre, they are able to experience the power of tragedy. Swiss director Milo Rau has once again crafted a show that is as cruel as it is poetic.
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Avec qui faire-monde ?
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Eliza Levy/Philippe Descola
from Friday, 13 March 2026 to Sunday, 15 March 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Together, the director Eliza Levy and the anthropologist Philippe Descola have devised an immersive stage and film essay in which to work out our relationships with our fellow inhabitants of the Earth. Avec qui faire-monde? Incorporates a real-time film shoot, creating a performance that is different every night. Located in a house that becomes the primary ecosystem — from the Greek oîkos, ‘house,’ and systêma, ‘organised whole’ — the artist and anthropologist ask: what kind of world do we inhabit, and under what conditions can we change it? In other words, how can we coexist differently in our common oîkos: the Earth?
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Être poète en temps de guerre
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Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Hend Jouda
from Saturday, 14 March 2026 to Sunday, 15 March 2026
Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Sur scène, la poètesse gazaouie Hend Jouda lit ses textes en arabe et semble comme suspendue entre la lumière des poèmes et de sa voix, un détachement nourrit d’ironie, et sa présence intense. Alors que Gaza, sa terre, son amour, est dévastée, l’autrice interroge : comment être poétesse en temps de guerre ? – titre d’un poème qu’elle publie sur Facebook en octobre 2023 et qui sera régulièrement repris, partagé et traduit. Entre la douleur et le deuil, son écriture célèbre pourtant aussi la vie. Ses textes créent un pont impossible entre la joie et la mort, les bonheurs quotidiens essentiels et dérisoires, et la force de continuer à lutter.
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Wayqeycuna
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Tiziano Cruz
from Saturday, 14 March 2026 to Saturday, 21 March 2026
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
In the far reaches of the Andes, capitalist predation is rampant. After a long absence, the artist Tiziano Cruz, “the indigenous man who made it”, returns to the land of “his brothers” – wayqeycuna in the Quechua language. He breaks fresh bread in a ritual of reconciliation, a way of turning his back on the languages and culture of the colonisers. A solo performance woven from words, images and intensely poetic presences: Wayqeycuna remembers injustice and the fate of the indigenous peoples, while journeying towards peace and togetherness.
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umuko
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Dorothée Munyaneza
from Wednesday, 18 March 2026 to Saturday, 21 March 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Nearly three decades after leaving Rwanda, her native land, Dorothée Munyaneza invokes the umuko: the guardian tree of stories, the healing tree, the ancestral tree. It becomes a place to gather and listen to those who are shaping the Rwanda of tomorrow, a creative and daring generation in search of emancipation, stubborn in the face of the precariousness of daily life and the fragility of existence. The tree is a link between the earth and the sky; umuko brings yesterday and tomorrow closer together, with past memories as its roots and the inventive energy of five young performers as its flowers, foliage and fruit. They are dancers, musicians and poets, delivering their radiant performance with infectious generosity.
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Lecture "Le Convoi"
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Beata Umubyeyi-Mairesse
Friday, 20 March 2026 18:30
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Le 18 juin 1994, quelques semaines avant la fin du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda, Beata Umubyeyi-Mairesse, alors adolescente, a eu la vie sauve grâce à un convoi humanitaire suisse. Après 15 ans d’enquête, elle écrit Le Convoi, récit sobre d’une enquête au long cours pour se réapproprier une histoire personnelle et collective et questionner la narration des événements. Lecture par l’autrice suivie d’une rencontre avec Deanna Cavadini, coordonnatrice du convoi du 18 juin 1994 pour Terre des Hommes.
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Dynasties
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Matthieu Barbin/Sara Forever
from Thursday, 26 March 2026 to Wednesday, 1 April 2026
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
A finalist on the second season of Drag Race France, Matthieu Barbin has already graced the stage at Vidy as a contemporary dancer. Now, he returns as Sara Forever, a flamboyant drag queen. Part drag show, part soap opera and part cabaret, Dynasties draws on his childhood dreams of becoming a star, and features a roster of popular culture icons such as Michael Jackson, Romy Schneider and Miley Cyrus. As the artist undergoes his countless transformations, he reflects on the legacy we inherit, the things that enable and constrain our dreams, the skins we must shed in order to invent a new identity – and behind the glitz, the family ties that become frayed, only to be more tightly rewoven.
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Thésée sa vie nouvelle
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Valérie Dréville/Guy Cassiers
from Thursday, 23 April 2026 to Sunday, 3 May 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Theseus conducts a poetic and familial investigation that intersects with the evils of 20th-century European history. His quest to understand the origin of his body’s suffering leads him on a long journey through the silences of his ancestors and the layers of history. Valérie Dréville and Guy Cassiers adapt Camille de Toledo’s poignant novel, which combines narrative, self-analysis, photography and poetry. Alone on stage, Valérie Dréville embodies a complex character, haunted by voices and images in a sound and video installation by Guy Cassiers: faced with the author’s scattered archives, she throws open the doors to the labyrinth of memory, from the past to the future.
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Le Cheval qui peint
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Old Masters
from Friday, 24 April 2026 to Sunday, 3 May 2026
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
This is the story of a horse that paints. A horse in three parts, with a head, a belly and hindquarters, half human, half animal. The three parts get along well, but not always – which is hardly surprising. The horse that paints is an artist, and, thanks to the collaboration of its three parts, it will perhaps organise an artistic event. The Old Masters collective presents an unusual and playful theatrical allegory, full of colour and music, about what we expect from art, as a temporary diversion from the obvious, whether we are artists or spectators.
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Meat me in paradise - Pour une suite des mondes
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
M. Furlan/C. de Ribaupierre/V. Despret/P.-O. Dittmar
from Friday, 24 April 2026 to Sunday, 3 May 2026
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
The theatre stage, with its lights and costumes, welcomes philosopher Vinciane Despret, medieval historian Pierre-Olivier Dittmar, playwright Claire de Ribaupierre and director Massimo Furlan to explore the subject of Paradise. In the Western tradition, the Paradise at the end of time, unlike the Garden of Eden, brings together humans and angels, but traditionally has no plants, trees or animals... not unlike the current state of capitalism! Is this really what we hope for? Could culture, science, fables, the dreams of fish and dogs (and a dose of humour) perhaps help us to imagine more desirable futures?
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SHOUT TWICE
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Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Mélissa Guex/Katerina Andreou
from Friday, 24 April 2026 to Sunday, 3 May 2026
Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
SHOUT TWICE is a cry of anger, a cry of community, together. Mélissa Guex and Katerina Andreou are choreographers and dancers who each develop dances that are intense and energetic, in which bodily states manifest a form of urgency and insatiable desire. For this new creation, they are merging their energies to co-create a performance that almost resembles a concert, with its pieces, its fragments, its crescendos and stops, while welcoming the audience around them and drawing them into their freeing energy: a metamorphosis, as a cry of anger transforms into a moment of shared joy.
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Alouettes, Pièce de champ
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Hors les murs
Émilie Rousset/Caroline Barneaud
from Saturday, 25 April 2026 to Sunday, 3 May 2026
Hors les murs
Alouettes is a piece for a field, performed outdoors. The audience is invited to sit in front of a field, while wearing headphones. Recordings relate different ways of seeing and understanding this place, for example from the point of view of a lobbyist dedicated to agricultural and ecological issues, the testimony of a local farmer, attentive listening to the soil, or even to the language of birds, thanks to a bioacoustician. An “investigation”performed by actors and a local farmer, Alouettes reveals the field as a space that is both natural and cultural, woven with knowledge, emotions and contradictions – as this mutual attention allows us to perceive new possible alliances between the humans and non-humans who inhabit or frequent it... The performance continues with a short walk to the farm, where discussions with artists and specialists can continue over local produce.
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Ultraficción nr. 1/Fracciones de tiempo
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Spectacle en plein air/Collines de VidyThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
El Conde de torrefiel
from Thursday, 30 April 2026 to Saturday, 2 May 2026
Spectacle en plein air/Collines de VidyThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Outside, not far from the theatre, in the midst of the wind and the trees, at sunset, stories are projected onto a cinema screen. True stories intertwine — a party, an airplane in difficulty, migrants crossing the sea… They read like a moving book, accompanied by an immersive soundtrack that awakens sensations and images. Reality fades along with the last light of day as the first stars appear, and the stories merge in the darkness that seems to abolish distance, creating an unsettling phantasmagoria. The El Conde de Torrefiel collective experiments once more with our perception and our reading of reality.
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Hub des possibles "La robustesse"
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Olivier Hamant
Wednesday, 13 May 2026 19:00
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
La robustesse comme antidote à l’illusion de la toute puissance
Laissez-vous inspirer en écoutant Olivier Hamant, chercheur en biologie végétale et auteur de La troisième voie du vivant et L’entreprise robuste. En s’appuyant sur les stratégies de résilience du vivant, il nous invite à repenser nos propres modes de fonctionnement. À travers des récits étonnants et accessibles, cette conférence ouvrira des pistes pour réduire les risques systémiques, imaginer des futurs plus durables et réintroduire des « espaces de respiration » dans nos schémas mentaux. Une soirée stimulante et porteuse d’espoir.
Rencontre organisée par le Hub des possibles / Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Payot Libraire, Réseau Alumil.
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Seul en scène
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Stephan Eicher/François Gremaud
from Tuesday, 19 May 2026 to Saturday, 23 May 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Stephan Eicher casually steps onto the stage to deliver something between a concert and a play. The musician interweaves stories and songs, anecdotes about what it has been like to perform on stage for the past forty years. Directed by François Gremaud, he explores the singular and precious connection that takes shape between an artist and his audience. A theatrical and musical solo tinged with memories, that celebrates shared encounters and moments of listening.
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Les Voüéces
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Louis Bonard
from Wednesday, 20 May 2026 to Sunday, 31 May 2026
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
This show could have been called Les Regretz, or Les Trous. It is called Les Voüéces. Les Voüéces are Voices that trouble the daily life of Rodogonde and Frénéjus, two ladies who live as hermits at the top of a very tall tower. Together, they embroider, play and chat in an enchanted, pseudo-medieval language. In their gilded cage (well, well), they attempt to fill the holes of silence, of passing time, of black bile, or of the vertiginous void which is doing nothing while the world burns. And some holes are difficult to fill… But who are these voices who are trying to speak to them? Ghosts, a prank, drama, fear, their guilt, or simply a stranger looking for shelter?
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Mon Frère
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
François Gremaud
from Thursday, 28 May 2026 to Friday, 5 June 2026
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Christian is on stage. He plays the role of Christian, a deaf man. Sometimes, he plays the role of François, his brother, the director of the play; and other roles still. Together, they reenact a brotherly and political story: that of a world in which sign language illuminates silence and invites us to see and hear differently. Here, a handicap does not signify a limit, but rather a creative invitation. Through a dialogue between the visible and the audible, Christian and François share a performance where difference becomes power, and resistance a possibility for joy.
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Pétrole
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Sylvain Creuzevault
from Wednesday, 3 June 2026 to Friday, 5 June 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Pétrole is the crowning work of the Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, a novel left unfinished due to the author’s assassination, made up of notes that draw freely from a myriad of literary forms. Against the backdrop of an investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Enrico Mattei, a boss of the Italian hydro energy industry, Pétrole follows the double character Carlo: Carlo 1, a brilliant engineer, and Carlo 2, who is searching for a liberated sexuality, freed from taboos. Pasolini thus exposes his own contradictions and antagonisms, as well as those of his time, without resolving them. Sylvain Creuzevault, a great reader of political history, together with a larger-than-life theatre troupe, elevate the novel to a fragmented, lyrical and impetuous theatre fresco.
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Tadaaah !
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Julia Botelho
from Wednesday, 3 June 2026 to Friday, 5 June 2026
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
A circus. Its starry ring seems unsettling, cruel even, the counterfeit image of a troubled reality. Madame Royale’s unmoving cymbals and the flea trainer’s hands seem to reveal something other than children’s smiles… A playful excitement, certainly! A marvellous and magical world! But what violence must one accept in order not to see the cages and the whips? Through her zany and chaotic circus, artist Julia Botelho, a recent graduate of the HEAD and La Manufacture schools, reminds us of the existence of violence and its perverse hold over childhood innocence.
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Trilogie terrestre
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Frédérique Aït-Touati/Bruno Latour
from Thursday, 11 June 2026 to Saturday, 13 June 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Trilogie terrestre is a series in three parts, devised by Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati.
On stage, a researcher-professor-thinker, the philosopher’s theatrical double, attempts to rekindle the dialogue between the living and its representations. The first part, Inside, is an occasion to test possible visual alternatives to the dominating and deceiving image of the “Globe”. The second part, Moving Earths, interrogates our experience of earth as moving, reactive, evident. Finally, Viral highlights contagion as a process that is essential to the constitution of our world, and questions the social and political consequences of an expanded redefinition of the living. And thus science becomes “dramatic”, and knowledge a sensory and fascinating experience!
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Le Bal de la Terre
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Frédérique Aït-Touati
Saturday, 13 June 2026 21:00
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Please, enter the great ballroom… It is already quite full. But full of who, or what? The celebration has already begun, the ball did not wait for us to arrive: there are beings present. Everything here is moving. Sounds, breaths. Through these diffracted points of view, the act of dancing together takes on a particular meaning: it is a way of conjuring and evoking forces of nature, other living beings, geological cycles, weather phenomena, natural events, the catastrophes and disruptions of the world. Le Bal de la Terre is an immersive invitation to shake up our earthly imaginaries through dance, theatre and celebration.
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Mirlitons
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Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Aymeric Hainaux/François Chaignaud
Wednesday, 17 June 2026 19:00
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Aymeric Hainaux is a visual artist, a poet and a powerful, inexhaustible beatboxer, freewheeling between pulses, beats and feedbacks. He confronts dancer François Chaignaud in a tiny ring, face to face, body to body. Is it a concert, a battle, a ritual, a pastoral scene? They seek each other out, test and defy each other until they achieve a physical and musical alchemy where sound, voice and rhythm come together. Their duo resembles a mirliton, a word that can refer to a musical instrument, a headdress, a gold coin or a pastry: polysemic, sonorous and elusive.
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Último helecho
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Nina Laisné/François Chaignaud/Nadia Larcher
from Friday, 19 June 2026 to Saturday, 20 June 2026
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
In the shadow of a fantastical rock imagined by director Nina Laisné, dancer François Chaignaud welcomes the singer Nadia Larcher, a major figure in Argentine folk and traditional music, accompanied by six musicians and their sackbut, bandoneon and sachaguitarra. Together, they awaken ancestral mythological creatures – animals and plants, sibyls who orchestrate the future and harness the power of belief. Music and dance from a vast South American repertoire intertwine and combine until they merge into a baroque, telluric and virtuoso allegory of origins.
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Delta – A stage for unique voices
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Delta
from Wednesday, 1 July 2026 to Thursday, 2 July 2026
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Delta is an artistic training programme designed for young people who are atypical, disabled, neurodivergent or who come from difficult backgrounds. Throughout the season, the Théâtre de Vidy will host these young artists in the making who, accompanied by professional artists, will explore theatre, dance and singing, culminating in a show devised with Mamu Tshi, a leading figure on the international krump scene.
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