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During this two-day workshop, you will explore the history and philosophy of Shiatsu and learn part of a full-body treatment that you can begin practising with family and friends. You will learn how to position your body during a treatment. Morning exercises will introduce movements that help support these positions. The workshop is open to anyone interested in self-exploration and developing greater body awareness, or simply curious to discover Shiatsu.

> Booking & further information : Pablo Donzé / pablodonze@hotmail.com

This season, Cindy Van Acker is offering a new series of morning movement practices open to everyone, designed to gently awaken the body.

— Monday 7 to Thursday 10 September  
— Monday 28 September to Thursday 1 October  
— Monday 26 to Thursday 29 October

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
— 9:00–10:00 am on the Pavillon forecourt (in the foyer in case of bad weather)  
— Open to everyone, free admission  
— Wear comfortable clothing and trainers

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The season resumes with three weekly yoga classes led by Yuta Ishikawa :

—Tuesday and Thursday : Yin Yoga
— Friday : Vinyasa Yoga

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Cindy Van Acker takes on Pléïades by avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis, a fiercely independent and resilient figure whose revolutionary energy pulses through his entire oeuvre. Composed in 1978 for six musicians and an impressive array of eighteen sets of instruments, Pléïades stands as a rhythmically unique work. To embark upon this powerful and intricate musical journey through dance, the choreographer brings together five dancers, six musicians from the Geneva-based contemporary percussion collective Eklekto — who will perform Xenakis’s music live — and collaborates with designer and lighting artist Victor Roy.

PREMIERE
27 – 31 May 2026 at Pavillon ADC, Geneva

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Organized on a voluntary basis by a collective of artists, this committed and solidarity-driven charity event aims to directly support the work of Palestinian journalists, while offering an evening in the company of artists and local organizations defending Palestinian rights. All proceeds will be donated to the NGO Palestinian Journalists Syndicat (PJS). 

With François Gremaud, Nina Negri, Thomas Hauert, Thomas Wiesel, Yan Duyvendak, Yasmine Hugonnet, Cindy Van Acker And Lausanne Palestine, Travelling Palestine, Urgence Palestine, Waves Of Freedom

— Saturday 28 March, Arsenic – Théâtre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
At 7.30 pm 

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La culture n’est pas un luxe : elle est essentielle à notre démocratie. Elle stimule la réflexion, la créativité, l’ouverture à l’autre. Elle renforce le lien social, la liberté d’expression, l’accès à la connaissance, la capacité d’innovation. Elle fait partie de notre identité.

L’initiative populaire « 1% pour la culture » propose que le canton consacre au moins 1% de son budget de fonctionnement à la promotion de la culture et à la création artistique, en application de la LPCCA adoptée en 2023. Ce 1% permettrait : 
— de revaloriser la rémunération des artistes et professionnel·les de la culture ;
— de lutter contre le dumping salarial et la précarité ;
— de valoriser la diversité culturelle, des acteurices et des publics ;
— de garantir la mise en œuvre effective de l’initiative constitutionnelle «Pour une politique culturelle cohérente à Genève » (acceptée à 83,18% des voix en 2019) ;
— de soutenir l’emploi local, non délocalisable, et de renforcer le poids économique du secteur.

Donnons à la culture genevoise les moyens de jouer pleinement son rôle !

Télécharger les feuilles de signatures:  https://action-intermittence.ch

Cindy Van Acker and her dancers present a last performance as part of the exhibition La Pologne rêvée. 100 chefs-d’œuvre du musée national de Varsovie at the Hermitage Foundation. Using the works presented at l’Hermitage as a starting point, they create a unique short piece over the course of a day, based on their encounter with the work chosen that morning.

— Thursday 6 November at 7.45 pm, with Yuta Ishikawa, Tilouna Morel, Daniela Zaghini


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Change of day : the Wednesday hatha yoga class is now scheduled for Thursday !

• Tuesday and Thursday : Hatha yoga with Daniela Zaghini
• Friday : Yoga Vinyasa with Yuta Ishikawa

from 10am to 11.30am


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Initiated at Fondation de l’Hermitage, the Impromptus will be presented in Avignon as part of the Sélection Suisse 2025.

Using the pieces presented at the Collection Lambert as a starting point, Cindy Van Acker and her collaborators – Tilouna Morel, Daniela Zaghini, Matthieu Chayrigues, Stéphanie Bayle (performance) and Denis Rollet (sound creation and diffusion) will create a special performance over the course of a day, based on their encounter with the work chosen that morning. Taking a step back, holding space for composition and play in the here and now, to create a small piece with the utmost care and lightness.

— SCH 2025, Collection Lambert, 10 – 16 July (off on the 13th)


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To round off the season and celebrate the arrival of summer, the Pavillon opens its doors for two days of performances, inside and out. On this occasion, Cindy Van Acker and the dancers of Compagnie Greffe present Impromptu IV, the 4th performance in the Impromptus series initiated at the Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne. With the Impromptus project, Cindy Van Acker experiments with a new relationship to creation, in a simplified approach to space and audience. 

Performance Stéphanie Bayle, Louise Bille, Matthieu Chayrigues, Lucie Eidenbenz, Yuta Ishikawa, Tilouna Morel, Elia Van Acker et Daniela Zaghini Music Oleksandr Yurchenko Light Victor Roy Sound engineer Benjamin Vicq

— Friday June 20, 11:00 pm
— Saturday June 21, 10:15 pm

Free access, subject to reservation /  BOOKING AND FULL PROGRAM

ISPA | International Society for the Performing Arts is a membership network of more than 500 leaders in the performing arts across 60 countries.The Distinguished Artist Award is presented to artists who have made an outstanding contribution of talent, artistry, dedication, and service to the world of the performing arts. 

ISPA 2025 WINNERS & CONGRESS PROGRAM 

Cindy Van Acker will offer a new series of pratiques corporelles matinales in front of the Pavillon. For these pratiques, bring along a small ball, such as a tennis ball or other ball that fits in the palm of your hand.

UPCOMING DATES

— THU 15 May, 22 May and 29 May
— MON 19 May, 26 May, 2 June, 9 June and 16 June

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

— From 9 am to 10 am in front of the Pavillon (practice takes place in the theater foyer in case of bad weather)
— Open to all, free admission
— Comfortable clothing. Bring a (tennis) ball

Corps 00:00 is part of the selection of archives of historical works exhibited at the Arsenic, in collaboration with the SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts, during the Fête de la Danse Lausanne.

This is an opportunity to (re)discover this 2002 piece on video. Faced with a body deliberately captured as a pile of bones and meat subjected to the law of gravitation, Cindy Van Acker questions the birth, purpose, essence and meaning of movement. Corps 00:00 marks the choreographer’s entry onto the international contemporary dance scene, including a programming at the Venice Biennale, at the invitation of Romeo Castellucci.

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Cindy Van Acker and dancers of the Compagnie Greffe propose a spontaneous and original performance, created the same day in the museum galleries, in contact with the exhibited works.

 UPCOMING DATES:

• THU 20.03 / 7.45 pm – with Lucie Eidenbenz, Yuta Ishikawa and Daniela Zaghini
• THU 10.04 / 7.45 pm – with Matthieu Chayrigues, Lucie Eidenbenz, Yuta Ishikawa and Daniela Zaghini
• THU 08.05 / 7.45 pm – with Stéphanie Bayle, Lucie Eidenbenz, Yuta Ishikawa and Daniela Zaghini

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A sonic journey through rhythm and abstraction by the cult Japanese post-rock ensemble goat (jp). Originally composed as the score for Cindy Van Acker’s eponymous dance piece​ Without References, this release expands the group’s radical approach to rhythm and structure into the realm of contemporary performance.

Official website goat (jp)

It all started with an invitation for Cie Greffe to set up at Pavillon ADC for three weeks, in order to recycle existing choreographic elements rather than creating new ones. The result was Occupation / Frayage topologique, early 2022. Also invited was playwright and author Michèle Pralong, who decided to jot down as much as possible of what she heard during this residency. She then reworked all these oral snippets and arranged them in a montage entitled je cherche mes clés   je trouve des loukoums. On the occasion of the book launch, Michèle Pralong and Alain Berset, founder of the publishing house Héros-Limite, will be taking part in a discussion, moderated by Maria Da Silva. A sound installation by artist, musician and sound landscape designer Olga Kokcharova based on Michèle Pralong’s book will be available to listen to on the Pavillon stage. You will also be able to rediscover the sound installation produced by artist Denis Rollet and dancer Stéphanie Bayle for Frayage topologique / an Occupation of ADC Pavillon.

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For this fourth edition of Espèces Sonores at Pavillon ADC, Cindy Van Acker invites all the musicians who have created the music for her pieces to select the track of their choice. With the help of Ben Vicq, she offers a sensitive exploration of this ad hoc repertoire. A collective plunge into a universe composed by …

— admission free
— from 7 to 11pm

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Regular yoga classes will continue throughout the 2024-2025 season : 

• Tuesday and Wednesday: Hatha yoga with Daniela Zaghini
• Friday : Yoga Vinyasa with Yuta Ishikawa

from 10am to 11am


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Cindy Van Acker’s latest creation is a powerful, atmospheric work. It is inhabited by two magnificent performers, Stéphanie Bayle and Daniela Zaghini, who modulate the stage with their presence and absence. Quiet Light tracks down sensations of ephemerality and evanescence drawing on pictorial fragility, temporal porosity, furtive encounters, and the precision of line. After its premiere at LAC – Lugano Arte e Cultura for the Lugano Dance Project Festival in June, the piece hits to the road.

• 11 – 19 December 2024 / Pavillon ADC Geneva – CH 
• 21 – 25 January 2025 /  Théâtre Vidy – Lausanne  – CH
• 4 – 5 February 2025 / Triennale Milano Teatro – IT
  

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Music & dance: while the two art forms are closely linked in most cultures, this is not the case for the disciplines that study them. Musicology has taken a selective interest in dance, while dance research, which has developed only recently, takes into account the role of music – many choreographers in fact work on their relationship with music in a singular way.  The sessions alternate case studies, readings of research papers, and practical experiments (e.g. on the rhythm of walking).

• 19 September 2024 / Introduction (students only) / Venue: Uni Bastions
• 3 October 2024 / Ecrire et formaliser en danse (open to the public, by reservation) / Venue: Pavillon ADC
• 12 December 2024 / Cindy Van Acker (students only) / Venue: Pavillon ADC

Cindy Van Acker will offer a final series of pratiques corporelles matinales from 3 to 6 December. The practices will take place in the Pavillon’s foyer.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

• From Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 December
• From 9am to 10am in the Pavillon’s foyer
• Open to all, free admission
• Comfortable clothing

Saturday 12 October / 7pm

Listen to different pieces of music together with Cindy Van Acker. Take a seat on the stage of the Pavillon, in quivering darkness, and immerse yourself in soundwaves, broadcast by Denis Rollet.

— admission free

Published by the Swiss Theatre Society (SST), this richly illustrated publication brings together 12 contributions, including a dialogue between Cindy Van Acker and playwright Michèle Pralong, as well as analyses of her work and stories from long-time collaborators, including choreographer Myriam Gourfink and director Romeo Castellucci.

with texts/interviews/recollections by Roberta Alberico, Tamara Bacci, Stéphanie Bayle, Maud Blandel, Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, Matthieu Chayrigues, Léo Chavaz, Louis-Clément Da Costa, Anne Davier, Aurélien Dougé, Sonia Garcia, Luc Gendroz, Paola Gilardi, Myriam Gourfink, Yuta Ishikawa, Marthe Krummenacher, Gennaro Lauro, Rikke Lundgreen, Anna Massoni, Isabelle Meister, Luca Nava, Samuel Pajand, Enrico Pitozzi, Michèle Pralong, Denis Rollet, Victor Roy, Claudia Rosiny, Thierry Sartoretti, Simone Toendury, Perrine Valli, Cindy Van Acker, Elia Van Acker, Rudi van der Merwe

The book is now available as a digital flipbook and in PDF format on the dedicated website.

Cindy Van Acker is the 2023 winner of the Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring.

With this award, the Federal Office of Culture recognises her work that is at the crossroads of several disciplines and her diverse commitment to the Swiss cultural scene.

Her desire to create is combined with a desire to discover and offer new temporal and imaginary spaces, to open up a space of availability where one can wander happily, work on what happens, or give back time its space. Van Acker needs the stage to retain its character as a space of freedom, protected from seduction and consumerism, where contemplation, radicalism, transgression, and melancholy have their place. Movement is everywhere and constantly changing.

Since Cie Greffe was founded in 2002, Van Acker has won two Swiss Dance Awards for two remarkable creations: in 2013 for Diffraction and in 2019 for Speechless Voices. She has also been awarded the Leenaards Culture Prize 2023.

The Swiss Grand Award for the Performing Arts / Hans Reinhart Ring is the highest in the performing arts in Switzerland. Awarded by the Federal Office of Culture in cooperation with the Swiss Theatre Society, it rewards a person or institution active in the performing arts in Switzerland.