The Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève returns to the LAC with Mirage, a new visionary creation by French-Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet – acclaimed internationally for his imaginative and metaphorical dance – and Japanese visual artist Kohei Nawa: a sensory journey through body, matter and metamorphosis.

Inspired by the optical phenomena of mirages and fata Morgana – illusions caused by the distortion of light passing through layers of air at different temperatures – Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa portray humanity on a journey, lost and searching for itself in a symbolic desert.
In Mirage, the two artists continue their exploration of the changing nature of life, blending choreography and visual arts in a continuous flow of metamorphosis. Through references to ancient mythology, botany, climatology and entomology, the work delves into the dancers' bodies layer by layer, bringing to the surface a multiplicity of physical, emotional and symbolic states.
The scene is constantly changing, at times populated by the spectres of a civilisation on the brink of extinction, at times traversed by the explosive and sensual vitality of tropical nature.
With this new work, Jalet and Nawa, accompanied by the dancers of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, offer the audience a hallucinatory, sensual and meditative experience that questions the essence of humanity beyond all appearances.