Inside a smoking giant cooking pot – the stage – we’ll find the most beautiful ingredients from the artists of our dreams. They come from the circus, the worlds of drag and burlesque and from the performative arts. Le Cabaret des affaires urgentes (the Cabaret of pressing matters) is a moment to gather and escape the reality of our everyday life. A moment to escape and break from the norms and everyday violence.

With poetical tools, this cabaret looks at our ability to repoliticize and resist together through shows and parties. Featuring a constellation of characters from Cabaret: the emcee, clowns, screamers, alter ego, barkers, and the archetypes; creatures and monsters.

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Biographie

CHANTAL MARIAM NEUHAUS: Artist (burlesque and stage artist), she is also the co-founder of Nyon’s afro-feminist collective Amani and an activist. After a few years working as a paramedic, she is now training to be an adult educator.
She seeks what ignites collective intelligence and attempts to provoke moments where the magic happens, shaping spaces where care is a collective question. Her works have been shown at Les Créatives, Belluard Bollwerk and at the Bureau des Questions Importantes, in theaters of the Cité Bleue, Carouge (Geneva), Néo-Martine in Lausanne and at the public libraries of Vevey, Geneva and Nyon.

CHLOÉ DÉMÉTRIADÈS: Trained in contemporary circus, she graduated with a bachelor from EDHEA (CH) and with a master from ERG (BE). Her work is at the crossroad of different visual and performative practices, curatorial research, and mediation. Her works always center issues of hospitality, care, and relationships to audiences. She has worked on many performances and her creations have been shown in different venues and festivals such as: festival TROUBLE (Brussels), far° festival, Théâtre des Halles, Festival de la Cité, Lausanne Jardin, festival Baz’Art, DAF festival, Les Créatives and the Belluard Bollwerk Festival.