Alexandra Bachzetsis
Escape Act

  • Fri 19.10.18 20 h
  • Sat 20.10.18 20 h

Introduction on FRI 19.10. at 19:30 H

Tickets:
Advance sales: 12 € / red. 7 €
Box office: 15 € / red. 9 €
incl. VRR-Ticket

Tickets 19.10. 20h Tickets 20.10. 20h

How do we evaluate what is real and what is not? And to what extent is everyday life a performance? In the age of mass produced visual media and steadfast obsession with preserving the youthful body, it is almost impossible to distinguish between appearance and existence. In her latest work ›Escape Act‹, Alexandra Bachzetsis turns her attention with subtle irony to the construction of authenticity and investigates its manifestations in everyday and pop culture. 

Quoting in her choreography performances of Vogueing, YouTube tutorials for “posing” and “realness” and Oskar Schlemmer’s treatment of forms in Das Triadische Ballett, she plays with both magic and scientific laws of perception and articulates fantasy as a choreographic horizon, as a possible existence between the established canon of corporeal codes and low-culture body languages, between improvisation and norm, between difference and repetition.

Concept, choreography: Alexandra Bachzetsis Creation, performance: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Jia-Yu Corti, Tamar Kisch, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Gus Solomons, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein, Sotiris Vasiliou Text: Paul B. Preciado (Excerpts from the poem ›Love is a drone‹) Collaboration, dramaturgy, movement director: Anne Pajunen Collaboration, dramaturgy, objects: Sotiris Vasiliou Communication design: Julia Born Photography: Blommers/Schumm Costume design: Christian Hersche in collaboration with Ulla Ludwig Music: Lies Vanborm, François De Meyer (Audiotheque) Music research: Anna Zaradny Light design, Technique: Patrik Rimann Production: Association All Exclusive Management: Anna Geering Production: Marina Miliou Production assistant: Felipe Katotriotis 

Supported by: Stadt Zürich, Kanton Zürich and Pro Helvetia-Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Fachausschuss Tanz und Theater BS/BL, Société Suisse des Auteurs, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Migros-Kulturprozent, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, kurimanzutto

Co-production: with Gessnerallee (Zürich), PACT Zollverein (Essen), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Les spectacles vivants du Centre Pompidou (Paris), Tanzhaus Zürich, Kaserne Basel

A project within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Interview with Alexandra Bachzetsis at PACT

By accessing the video, you agree that your data will be transmitted to third-party providers (e.g., YouTube / Vimeo). Our privacy policy contains further information about this.

Accept and load video

Touring

07.03.2020, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)
06.03.2020, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)
28.06.2019, (excerpt), Marta Herford, Herford (DE)
12.04.2019, Pioneer Works, New York (US)
11.04.2019, Pioneer Works, New York (US)
23.03.2019, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
22.03.2019, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
21.03.2019, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE)
08.03.2019, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE)
03.03.2019, Kaserne Basel, Basel (CH)
02.03.2019, Kaserne Basel, Basel (CH)
01.03.2019, Kaserne Basel, Basel (CH)
24.02.2019, Dampfzentrale, Bern (CH)
16.02.2019, Les Spectacles Vivantes, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
15.02.2019, Les Spectacles Vivantes, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
14.02.2019, Les Spectacles Vivantes, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
20.01.2019, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
19.01.2019, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
18.01.2019, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
17.01.2019, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
20.10.2018, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)
19.10.2018, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)

More Events
  • Thu 07.03.24 18 h – 21 h
  • Thu 04.04.24 18 h – 21 h
  • Thu 02.05.24 18 h – 21 h
  • Fri 05.04.24 18 h

ATELIER No. 69
Experimental platform for the arts