RUSH(ES)

In the organizer's words:

Guest performance by Alexandra Bachzetsis

In her new solo performance Rush(es), the renowned Swiss choreographer and visual artist Alexandra Bachzetsis locates the self and explores autofiction, autoeroticism and autodocumentation. Conceived as an introspective journey, the performance questions taboos of behavior and explores the commodification of desire, which is both constructed and deconstructed by the dancing body. Rush(es) is characterized by rapid transformations that push the body to its limits and reflect pleasure, joy, loneliness and fear through the performer's intense physicality. In the process of physical metamorphosis, Bachzetsis controls her body so that it ceases to be a human being and transforms into something else - an animal, an object, a tool.

In this solo performance, you are invited to perceive, examine and experience these physical transformations as a reflection of the collective consciousness. Rush(es) aims to evoke intuitive, immediate responses to music, space, text and the actions of the body, bringing both the performer and you in the audience into a heightened state of awareness and transformation.

By and with

Concept / Choreography / Performance Alexandra Bachzetsis Concept / Dramaturgy Dorota Sajewska Texts by Lee Lozano © The Estate of Lee Lozano. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Conceptual Advisor Stephen Thompson Movement Director Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska
Composition and sound design Alban Schelbert Bass clarinet Florian Walter Costume Laurent Hermann Progin Stage design Alexandra Bachzetsis, Ivan Wahren Lighting and video design Ivan Wahren Technical direction Ivan Wahren, Patrick Rimann Production/studio management Caroline Krieg/ All Exclusive Studio, archive and communication Jean-Marie Fahy Tour management Caroline Krieg, Laurent Hermann Progin