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Alexandra Bachzetsis

2020: Obscene
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In «2020: Obscene», Alexandra Bachzetsis examines the ambivalence of the terms «scene» and «obscene» which is alluded to in the title. In a collaborative process, she tests the conditions for staged (re-)presentation, emphasizing how excessively bodies are staged and exposed on stage, while the desirous eyes of the viewers follow them. The focus here is on theatre as a dispositive and its potential for manipulation: a place of seduction, attraction and playing with sexual identity. «2020: Obscene» dedicates itself to excess as a radical interruption of conventional forms, gestures, cultural patterns and archetypes, in order to actively question the subversive and normative aspects of performance art.

Biography

Alexandra Bachzetsis works as a choreographer and artist at the interdisciplinary interface of dance, performance, visual art and theatre. She is a graduate of the performance education programme of the STUK Arts Center in Leuven and holds a master’s degree from the Das Arts – Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies Centre in Amsterdam. Since 2001, she has created more than thirty solo and group pieces, which have been shown all over the world at theatres, festivals, in museums and galleries and in the public space.

alexandrabachzetsis.com

Other productions available for touring

Notebook (2023), Perfect (2001/2022/2023), Chasing a Ghost (2019), Private: Wear a mask when you talk to me (2016)

Credits

Concept & choreography Alexandra Bachzetsis

Collaboration, concept & stage Sotiris Vasiliou

Collaboration, concept & dramaturgy Dorota Sajewska

Creation & performance Alexandra Bachzetsis, Owen Ridley-Demonick, Tamar Kisch, Sotiris Vasiliou / Konstantinos Papanikolaou

Sound design Tobias Koch

Costume design Christian Hersche, Ulla Ludwig, Laurent Hermann Progin

Production & diffusion Marlene Bürgi

Communication design Julia Born

Photography Melanie Hofmann

Hair & makeup Delia Sciullo

Technical direction & light design Patrik Rimann

Technical team Alban Schelbert, Jon Brunke, Phil Hills, Valentin Biller

Coproduction Kunsthaus Zürich, Kaserne Basel, Dampfzentrale Bern, L'Arsenic – Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, ADN Neuchâtel, Tanzquartier Wien, Gessnerallee Zürich. This performance is a coproduction in the frame of the Programmers’ Fund of Reso—Dance Network Switzerland, supported by Pro Helvetia—Swiss Arts Council

Supported by The cooperative support agreement between the City of Zurich, the Canton of Zurich, and Pro Helvetia—Swiss Arts Council, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Jacqueline Spengler Stiftung

Website alexandrabachzetsis.com

Venue

Gessnerallee Zürich, Halle Ost
Gessnerallee 8, 8001 Zürich
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Tickets

2.3.2024, 16:00—17:25
Gessnerallee Zürich, Halle Ost
2.3.2024, 21:00—22:25
Gessnerallee Zürich, Halle Ost