We, 28.2.2024
17:30—18:40 Public
Tanzhaus Zürich, Bühne 2
Géraldine Chollet / Cie Rahu LaMo
OUVERTURE – piece for dancers and walking audience
19:30—20:30 Public
ZHdK, Theater der Künste, Bühne A
Maud Blandel / ILKA
L’œil nu
19:30—20:50 Public
Gessnerallee Zürich, Halle Ost
Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula
How a falling star lit up the purple sky
«How a falling star lit up the purple sky» is the second joint production by Jeremy Nedd and nine pantsula dancers. Pantsula is a high-energy dance form which arose during the Apartheid era in South Africa’s Black townships, and which Nedd transposes into the contemporary stage context in this piece. Western movies were the speculative point of departure for new stories and myths for this project. As a genre, the western uses extremely clichéd narratives surrounding the hero, the «other» which is stylized into the stranger, and the wide, empty landscape they both inhabit and defend against each other. «How a falling star lit up the purple sky» tries to rethink the notion of these archetypes in an artistic and choreographic manner, as a visual poem and by combining different dance styles. The piece invites a paradigm shift and a reassessment of the mental and geographic spaces occupied by westerns, the (Wild) West and the South.
Jeremy Nedd is a choreographer and performer from Brooklyn, New York, who has been living and working in Basel for quite some time. He had various engagements at the Semper Opera in Dresden and at the Basel Ballet. He regularly makes guest appearances at the Zurich Theatre, where he has worked with Trajan Harrell. Most recently, he completed a master’s degree in expanded theatre at the Bern Academy of Arts (HKB). His works so far have incorporated dance styles of various communities within contemporary dance and have been shown at the Kaserne Basel, at the Arsenic – Centre d’Art scénique contemporain Lausanne and at the Münchner Kammerspiele, among others. Jeremy Nedd received the Swiss Performing Arts Award in 2023.
Other productions available for touring
from rock to rock …aka how magnolia was taken for granite (2024), the ecstatic (2019)
Booking contact
Caroline Froelich, caroline@moinmoinproductions.ch, Jeremy Nedd, jer.nedd@gmail.com
Credits
Concept & choreography Jeremy Nedd
Choreography & performance Sicelo Xaba, Vusi Mdoyi, Sello Modiga, Thomas Motsapi, Bonakele Masethi, Lungile Ngwenya, Vuyani Feni, Sibongile Mathebula, Elma Motloenya
Light design / technical direction creation Thomas Giger
Light / technical direction touring Sebastian Sommer
Stage design Laura Knüsel
Audio design Fabrizio Di Salvo & Rej Deproc
Musical consulting Brandy Butler
Costume design Rosa Birkedal
Dramaturgy Anta Helena Recke
Production management creation Regula Schelling (produktionsDOCK)
Production / Diffusion Caroline Froelich (Moin Moin Productions)
Coproduction Kaserne Basel, Arsenic – Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Wiesbaden Biennale, The Centre for the Less Good Idea Johannesburg
Supported by Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater BS/BL, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, SüdKulturFonds, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Kulturfonds of the Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), GGG Basel, Jacqueline Spengler Stiftung, Scheidegger-Thommen-Stiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung
Website www.jeremynedd.com / www.moinmoinproductions.ch
Venue
Gessnerallee Zürich, Halle Ost
Gessnerallee 8, 8001 Zürich
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Tickets
21:00—22:30 Encounters
Festival Centre (Stall 6)
Swiss Dance Days 2024
Opening Ceremony
22:30—23:15 Public
Gessnerallee Zürich, Halle West
Élie Autin / Cie Les Bacchantes