The new solo project by Alexandra Bachzetsis is a profound and lustful exploration by the performer of her own biography as a dancer, choreographer and artist. The piece was not created in isolation, but within the framework of a dialogue, a method developed by Bachzetsis especially for this project. With her dialogue partners Lies Vanborm, Safiya Sinclair, Emi Curty und Zeltia Robin, Michel Auder, Melissa Biondo, Loren Tschannen, Delgado Fuchs Family, Antoine Weil, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Dorota Sajewska and Alban Schelbert, she developed a performative installation in which the encounters with the others can be found again in the form of material and immaterial traces, voices, remains. A dance dialogue with Antoine Weil is (re-)performed in part of SOLO live and the whole piece is accompanied by live sound composed by Alban Schelbert.
Themes such as lust, sexuality, excess, innocence, pain and ephemerality are addressed in the form of performative notes that manifest themselves in a plurality of voices, images, bodies and objects. The notebook as an indispensable companion of the artistic process, as a private archive of creative work and as a storehouse of ideas for imagined future projects thus reflects Bachzetsis’ artistic affinity for the fragmentary, sketchy, unfinished in creative and performative thinking processes. Here, the body becomes a physical archive of other bodies, the most subversive form of presentation of experience as well as a place of permanent mediation between past and present, event and documentation, liveliness and mediality, originality and quotativeness.
At the premiere-party Chaïa-Maria will be deejaying:
Chaïa-Maria is a DJ who’s grown up in Zurich and has been playing at venues all around the city for some years now. Her style can not easily be narrowed down, her sounds shift from discoid uplifting to highly energetic latin beats. What drives her in every gig is the big enjoyment in playing the tunes she loves and to create moments for her audience and her where she can share her joie de vivre.
The new solo project by Alexandra Bachzetsis is a profound and lustful exploration by the performer of her own biography as a dancer, choreographer and artist. The piece was not created in isolation, but within the framework of a dialogue, a method developed by Bachzetsis especially for this project. With her dialogue partners Lies Vanborm, Safiya Sinclair, Emi Curty und Zeltia Robin, Michel Auder, Melissa Biondo, Loren Tschannen, Delgado Fuchs Family, Antoine Weil, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Dorota Sajewska and Alban Schelbert, she developed a performative installation in which the encounters with the others can be found again in the form of material and immaterial traces, voices, remains. A dance dialogue with Antoine Weil is (re-)performed in part of SOLO live and the whole piece is accompanied by live sound composed by Alban Schelbert.
Themes such as lust, sexuality, excess, innocence, pain and ephemerality are addressed in the form of performative notes that manifest themselves in a plurality of voices, images, bodies and objects. The notebook as an indispensable companion of the artistic process, as a private archive of creative work and as a storehouse of ideas for imagined future projects thus reflects Bachzetsis’ artistic affinity for the fragmentary, sketchy, unfinished in creative and performative thinking processes. Here, the body becomes a physical archive of other bodies, the most subversive form of presentation of experience as well as a place of permanent mediation between past and present, event and documentation, liveliness and mediality, originality and quotativeness.
At the premiere-party Chaïa-Maria will be deejaying:
Chaïa-Maria is a DJ who’s grown up in Zurich and has been playing at venues all around the city for some years now. Her style can not easily be narrowed down, her sounds shift from discoid uplifting to highly energetic latin beats. What drives her in every gig is the big enjoyment in playing the tunes she loves and to create moments for her audience and her where she can share her joie de vivre.
| Concept and | |
| Choreography | Alexandra Bachzetsis |
| Collaboration Concept and | |
| Dramaturgy | Dorota Sajewska |
| Collaboration Choreography and | |
| Performance | Alexandra Bachzetsis, Antoine Weil, Alban Schelbert |
| Collaboration Choreography and | |
| Movement Research | Owen Ridley-DeMonick |
| Dialog and | |
| Research Partners | Lies Vanborm, Safiya Sinclair, Michel Auder, Emi Curty, Zeltia Robin, Marco Delgado, Nadine Fuchs, Lili-Marlo Delgado Fuchs, Mélissa Biondo, Loren Tschannen, Antoine Weil, Owen Ridley-DeMonick |
| Music and Sounddesign | Alban Schelbert // Organ played by Joseph Schelbert recorded by Alban Schelbert |
| Music Production | |
| ‘KOKAINOPOTIS’ in Athens | Bouzouki played by Manoulis Pappos, classical guitar played Marios Mourmouras recorded and edited by Stefanos Konstantinidis / Nassos Sopilis / Fabrika Music |
| Collaboration Costume | |
| Design, Conceptual Advice | |
| and Research | Christian Hersche, Ulla Ludwig, Laurent Hermann Progin |
| Communication Design | Julia Born |
| Photography | Diana Pfammatter |
| Photography Assistant | Andrea Ebener |
| Hair and Makeup Shooting | Delia Scullio, Helve Leal |
| Technical Direction, | |
| Collaboration Stage | |
| and Light Design | Patrik Rimann |
| Production and | |
| Management | Association All Exclusive, Franziska Schmidt |
| Administration | Association All Exclusive, Juliana Simonetti |
| Management Tour | Something Great, Rui Silveira |
| Assistance Studio and Tour | |
| Management | Giuliana Beya Dridi |
| Archive Management and | |
| Research | Jean-Marie Fahy |
| … |
| Co-production | Kunst Halle St Gallen, Gessnerallee Zürich, Tanzquartier Wien, TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto, Kaserne Basel, Centre d'art scénique contemporain – Arsenic Lausanne, Dampfzentrale Bern |
| Thanks to | Giovanni Carmine, Sotiris Vasiliou, Adam Szymczyk |
| Supported by | The cooperative support agreement between the City of Zurich, the Canton of Zurich, and Pro Helvetia—Swiss Arts Council, Ernst Göhner Stiftung |
