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François Bayrou, this French Prime Minister who requests the confidence of a hostile parliament, with this mad hope of imposing on France a cure of weight loss, would undoubtedly compat. Claude Ratzé, who is more spiritual and more pragmatic, also has his problem of deficit. The Director of the Bâtie-Festival de Genève opens its final edition this Thursday. For eight years, this inspired hedonist had the big meeting at the start of the school year shine. The waltz was beautiful, until 2023 earthquake: the programming is flamboyant, too probably, in view of the deficit, 420,000 francs on a budget of 2.8 million.
“We had not seen anything coming,” says the former boss of the ADC – Association for Contemporary Dance. With his team, he scored to put the boat afloat. The year 2024 is supposed to repair the damage. The edition is artistically pleasing, financially better controlled, but we are far from the account. It ends with a slate of 80,000 francs. The alert rating is reached. These last six months have been tormented. But ten days ago, the Festival Foundation Council, chaired by lawyer Bettina Navratil, approved the budget for a 2025 edition which gained in muscle what it lost in the flesh.
