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Edition 2019

From 6 to 9 February 2019 in Lausanne, the 10th Swiss Dance Days had showcased the winning performances selected by the jury from over 150 entries. The programme offered a snapshot of the trends that are currently inspiring Swiss choreographers and dancers.

Jury

Vincent Baudriller Director of the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Anneli Binder Managing co-director and artistic director of the dance & performance programme, Dampfzentrale Bern
Patrick de Rham Director of Arsenic – Centre d'art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
Catja Loepfe Director of the Tanzhaus Zurich
Philippe Saire Choreographer and artistic director of Théâtre Sévelin 36, Lausanne
Stefano Tomassini Dance advisor at LIS/LAC Lugano and assistant professor at IUAV University, Venice
 
As the sole artist sitting on the jury, Philippe Saire will have the opportunity to present one of his own works during the Swiss Dance Days.

Partners

Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Arsenic - Centre d'art scénique contemporain
Théâtre Sévelin 36
L'Octogone - Théâtre de Pully
La Manufacture - Haute école des arts de la scène

Final selection

Alexandra Bachzetsis

Private Song

Nikolas Giakoumakis

Art, as French philosopher Jacques Derrida remarked, depends on how you frame it – a painting’s frame, for example, delimits what is seen. In her piece «Private Song» Alexandra Bachzetsis follows this reasoning and proposes a new «frame» through which the work may be perceptively approached. The goal is to question, emphasize or neutralize the relationship between the audience and the bodies moving on stage. To this end she draws from heterogeneous sources, confronting the voices and codified gestures of Greek Rebetiko with those of Hollywood style fight scenes, as well as visual portrayals of love and war. On a chessboard, solos, duos, trios and songs intertwine. The bodies, though drawn one to the others, end up misunderstanding or misinterpreting and are finally incapable of coming together - because what is acceptable or not also delimits the possibility for action within each given context. Through a phantasmic staging the scenic mechanisms of «Private Song» succeed in channelling both perception and affect and thus impacting the viewer’s perspective.

Biografie

Alexandra Bachzetsis (Zurich) is a choreographer and visual artist trained at the Dimitri School (CH), STUK Arts Center (BE) and Das Arts (NL). Her practice is founded at the crossroads between dance, performance, visual art and theatre. Inspired by a plurality of cultural references, she amalgamates the different spaces in which the body may manifest itself as an artistic and critical instrument. Her work thematizes the social and collective constructs of different human sensibilities and gender-related behaviours. Alexandra Bachzetsis has received numerous awards including the DESTE prize (2011), the Swiss Prize for Performance (2012), the Swiss Art Award (2016) as well as the Art Prize from the city of Zurich (2018).

alexandrabachzetsis.com

Credits

Concept and choreography Alexandra Bachzetsis

Performance Alexandra Bachzetsis, Thibault Lac, Sotiris Vasiliou

Dramaturgy Dramaturgy

Sound Tobias Koch

Costume design Cosima Gadient in collaboration with Yonatan Zohar

Light design Patrik Rimann

Stage design Peter Baur

Production Association All Exclusive

Production management Anna Geering

Commissioned by documenta 14

Coproduction Volksbühne Berlin, Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem

Support Schering Stiftung, Stichting Ammodo. In the period 2018-2020, Alexandra Bachzetsis receives subsidies as part of the cooperative funding agreement between the City of Zurich, Fachausschuss Tanz&Theater BS/BL and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.

Venue

Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne Apothéloz
Av. Emile-Henri-Jaques-Dalcroze 5, 1007 Lausanne
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Tickets

7.2.2019, 20:30—21:30
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne Apothéloz
8.2.2019, 15:00—16:00
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne Apothéloz