A month-long festival in Geneva is putting the moving body at the centre of questions about migration, protest, ecology and urban life. Dance First Think Later, curated by Olivier Kaeser and produced by the independent platform Arta Sperto, runs from 13 October to 15 November 2026 across venues including Le Commun, Villa Bernasconi and the Museum of Art and History. It opens on 13 October with Trajal Harrell and the Zurich Dance Ensemble at Le Commun. The programme pairs choreography with visual art, film and installation. At Villa Bernasconi, Alexandra Maurer's video installation reworks gestures of bodily resistance drawn from a street protest in Iran, combining choreography with animated painting. Anan Atoyama develops a participatory dance work on climate change and migration for Geneva, while Vanessa Riera stages a fashion show-performance on the staircase of the Museum of Art and History with young people who have lived experience of migration, using upcycled textiles. MOPS_DanceSyndrome, directed by Ela Francesca, presents dancers with Down syndrome and treats disability as a source of creative strength. Elsewhere, the collective danced stances investigates Geneva's transforming PAV district through performance and a filmed essay, and a main gallery strand on the body in absentia gathers works where the body is central but physically missing, including pieces by Esther Ferrer, Katja Schenker and Nefeli Papadimouli. Gender and queer culture are addressed by Soraya Leila Emery and Lenio Kaklea, while works by Olga de Soto, Geumhyung Jeong and Cindy Van Acker invite slower, inward-looking states closer to meditation. The festival also foregrounds how performance is documented. A symposium titled The Movement: From Score to Documentation brings together fourteen speakers working on notation, collections and storytelling in dance, and a second volume of the festival's publication on the thinking body between dance and visual arts appears to coincide with the 2026 edition.