Avant la nuit / L’Oiseau de feu
Edouard Hue
Two plays that explore the fundamental role of parents in a divided and polarising world: how can we protect children, support them and instil values in them, whilst allowing them to find their own way?
The choreographer Edouard Hue has chosen the format of a diptych to give shape to his reflections on family and parenthood, in which he sets ten dancers in motion and creates radically different worlds.
For whilst Avant la nuit is rooted in reality through the bedtime routine, L’Oiseau de feu plunges us into an abstract and symbolic world, built around illusion.
The music – a contemporary composition by Jonathan Soucasse for the first piece and Igor Stravinsky’s work from the last century for the second – reinforces the contrast between the two pieces and lends each a unique flavour.
Edouard Hue is in residence at Concorde this season.
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Prices and offers
Full price
CHF 40.-
Concessionary rate
From CHF 15 to CHF 25
AVS, AI, unemployment, young people aged up to 26, people with reduced mobility, residents of Vernier, 20ans20francs, Passedanse, Relax audience on 3 April
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Stage Edge: a meet-the-actor session with Edouard Hue will take place after the performance on Friday 2 April.
Choreography
Edouard Hue
Cast
Alison Adnet, Alizée Droux, Delphine Guigue, Svetlana Guseva,
Maxime Jeannerat, Jaewon Jung, Laurie Kokoreff-Brütt, Lysandre Korelis, Ainhoa Pina Cayuela, Arianna Pina Cayuela, Ambre Pini, Enorah Schwaar
Music: Avant la nuit
Jonathan Soucasse
Music: The Firebird
Igor Stravinsky
Set design
Yoko Seyama
Set construction
the Comédie de Genève
Lighting
Arnaud Viala
Costumes
Sigolène Pétey
Dramaturgical advice
Hugo Roux
Visual design
Marc Limousin
Production
Beaver Dam Company
Co-production
La Comédie de Genève, Concorde – Espace Culture, Equilibre-Nuithonie-Fribourg, Escher Theater, Kurtheater Baden, Festival de Danse Cannes – Côte d’Azur France, Le Spot-Sion, L’ONDE Théâtre Centre d’Art, Reso – Réseau Danse Suisse
Residencies
Comédie de Genève, Concorde – Espace Culture Partnership: ‘Binding First Dance’ with the Sophie and Karl Binding Foundation
Support
Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, RESO Co-production Fund, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Sandoz Family Philanthropic Foundation, Republic and Canton of Geneva
Edouard Hue
Edouard Hue is, above all, a dancer who uses his physicality to express pure movement.
Get in touch
By phone
Monday to Thursday, 2–5 pm
+41 (0)22 795 00 04