The Compagnie …Sans Oublier… was created in September 2018, by Inès Halimi, in order to produce shows that mix several arts : music, theatre, danse, literature, and visual arts:
. Giacometti ou le Jeu des Mots (2019), Théâtre Interface of Sion.
. Mon père sur mes épaules (2020), Centre Culturel des Terreaux of Lausanne (reprise, 2023).
. Rencontres (2022), Fondation Jan Michalski (reprise, 2023).
. Dialogues Hébraïques, film shooting in autumn 2023.
. Prières (2025), creation at Abbatiale of Romainmôtier, on July 6th, 2025. International tour for the 2025/2026 season.
Thank you to all the patrons, sponsors, and the foundations who have supported us from the beginning…
Shows & Creations
PRIÈRES (short film)
creation . years 2023 and 2024 (film release scheduled for 2025/2026)
. Time : 58 mns
. Artistic direction, conception, writing, musical compositions and musical arrangements : Inès Halimi
. Staging : Marc Mayoraz
. Soprano and conducting : Inès Halimi
. Saxophone quartet and singers : Ellipsos Quartet
. Film director : Dorian Nguyen Phu
. Sound recording and mixing : Nethanel Brys
. Lights : Jean-Pierre Potvliege
. Administration : Laurence Krieger-Gabor
. Production : Cie …Sans Oublier…
Synopsis :
Written during her residency at the Jan Michalski Foundation, Prières takes the form of a concert mixed with poetry, in which Inès Halimi questions the notions of the sacred and the profane: through original compositions influenced by psalmody and madrigals, based on sacred texts (such as the Song of Songs and 13th-century Sufi poetry) and arrangements of sacred and profane music by W. A. Mozart, G. Verdi, and A. Corelli.
DIALOGUES HÉBRAÏQUES (short film)
creation . years 2023 and 2024 (film release scheduled for 2025/2026)
. Time : 12mns
. Artistic conception, writing and musical compositions : Inès Halimi
. Film director : Dorian Nguyen Phu
. Staging : Marc Mayoraz
. Choreographer : Gabriel Arenas Ruiz
. Actors : Jean-Philippe Clerc, Gabriel Arenas Ruiz, Inès Halimi
. Singer : Inès Halimi
. Dancer : Gabriel Arenas Ruiz
. Pianist : Jean-Philippe Clerc
. Sound recording and mixing : Rémi Béssaix
. Lights : Nicolas Mayoraz
. Administration : Laurence Krieger-Gabor
. Production : Compagnie …Sans Oublier…
Synopsis :
It all begins with a dialogue between two artists.
Gabriel Arenas Ruiz, dancer and choreographer, et Inès Halimi, composer, singer and author. The two artists have been working together for over six years and share an interest for Jewish culture: one expresses it through body and movement, the other through words and song.
Through song, music, and dance, the audience is invited to draw from their innermost selves, letting themselves be carried away by the language of body and sound.
RENCONTRES (lyrical cabaret)
creation . october 2022
. Time : 60mns
. Artistic conception, musical composition and text : Inès Halimi
. Director : Marc Mayoraz
. Singing, and acting : Inès Halimi
. Piano, singing, and acting : Jean-Philippe Clerc
. Administration : Laurence Krieger-Gabor
. Production : Compagnie …Sans Oublier…
Synopsis :
From monologue to dialogue, this lyrical cabaret mixes music and theater. Like two protagonists, the singer and the pianist converse and interpret French music from the end of the 19th century to today, such as : a duet of Jacques Offenbach’s “Belle-Hélène”, Francis Poulenc’s “Dame de Monte-Carlo”, Debussy’s “Nuits Blanches”, and two world premieres, “Poèmes pour moi” and the duet “l’Equitation”, written and set to music by Inès Halimi. This duet invites the spectator to the meeting of oneself, then of the other… An intimate show, endowed with mischief, love, melancholy, and humor !
MON PÈRE SUR MES ÉPAULES (from the book of Metin Arditi)
creation . august 2020
. Time : 60mns
. Artistic conception and direction : Marc Mayoraz
. Musical composition : Inès Halimi
. Author : Metin Arditi
. Acting : Marc Mayoraz
. Pianist : Inès Halimi
. Administration : Laurence Krieger-Gabor
. Production : Cie …Sans Oublier..
Synopsis :
Mon père sur mes épaules, is a musical reading of Metin Arditi’s book, set to music by Inès Halimi – in collaboration with the author – and performed by Marc Mayoraz.
GIACOMETTI OU LE JEU DES MOTS
creation . april 2019
. Time : 70mns
. Artistic conception and musical composition : Inès Halimi
. Director : Marc Mayoraz
. Choreographer : Marcela San Pedro
. Acting : Jean-Philippe Clerc, Inès Halimi, Marc Mayoraz, Alain Mudry
. Singers : Inès Halimi & Marc Mayoraz
. Pianist : Jean-Philippe Clerc
. Guitarist : Alain Mudry
. Lights : Nicolas Mayoraz
. Video : Guillaume Mayoraz
. Costumes : Marine Boucid
. Exhibited Painter : Dessa
. Administration : Laurence Krieger-Gabor
. Coproduction : Théâtre Interface Sion
. Production : Compagnie …Sans Oublier…
Synopsis :
It all starts with a dialogue…Giacometti is late. Alice Bellony waits for him at a café around the corner from her studio, rue Hippolyte-Maindron. As he arrives three hours later, Alice is getting ready to leave. “Were you leaving without me?” he asked in surprise. “Yes,” I answered, dryly. This dialogue is an excerpt from Alice Bellony’s book Une soirée avec Giacometti, and serves as the starting point to this theatrical journey. The performance was set into music by Inès Halimi and offers painting the starring role. All throughout, the audience is led into an artistic universe of drawing, portraits, travels and life; it wraps us in Emile Zola and Jean Cocteau’s words, and Cézanne and Picasso’s presence. On stage, visual artist Dessa’s vibrant works enlighten Giacometti’s prose, a man still remembered as “the word lover.”
