Marie-Caroline Hominal

Rhapsodie Smiley, 2025

Saturday, September 27, 7 p.m. at La Centrale

Stepping, walking, is at the heart of this performance designed by Marie-Caroline Hominal for the vast hall of La Centrale. The title pays homage to the rhapsodes, the interpreters of Homer and other Greek authors who went from town to town declaiming their epics. The performer will thus walk, developing the binary structure of the movement of walking, the most basic and natural of human movements. And that Smiley? As she moves her body, Marie-Caroline will compose a series of emotions on her face, evoked today by emojis that owe much to the masks of Greek theater.

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Marie-Caroline Hominal

Born in 1978
Based in Geneva

Marie-Caroline Hominal's interdisciplinary practice encompasses dance, performance, video, drawing, and music. She has collaborated with figures such as Gisèle Vienne, Gilles Jobin, La Ribot, and Marco Berrettini before developing a personal oeuvre in 2002, beginning with video and then moving toward choreography and performance. Her pieces explore representations of the body, sexuality, and violence, incorporating elements from theater, music, and the visual arts. She also initiates collaborations, notably with Markus Öhrn, Nelisiwe Xaba, and her brother, visual artist David Hominal.