Avec RUSH(ES), Alexandra Bachzetsis entame une exploration introspective du corps comme lieu de désir, de fiction et d’auto-observation. Le titre évoque à la fois l’élan, la montée d’adrénaline, et les états de transe ou d’excitation. 

Sur scène, le corps devient un espace de transformations rapides et intenses. Plaisir, solitude, joie ou angoisse se traduisent par une physicalité extrême, où le corps glisse tour à tour vers l’animal, l’objet ou l’outil. Le public est invité non pas à « comprendre », mais à ressentir.

À travers cette performance, Bachzetsis interroge la manière dont le désir est façonné et marchandisé par la société. Le corps devient un lieu de résistance, un terrain d’émancipation, et un miroir tendu à notre conscience sociale.

Alexandra Bachzetsis is a choreographer and visual artist, based in Zurich (CH). Her practice
unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theater, generating a
conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest.
Much of Bachzetsis’ work involves choreographies of the body, focusing on the ways in which
popular culture provides source material for gesture, expression, identification, and desire as we
continually create and re-create our bodies and the way we identify through them. Within this,
she scrutinizes the mutual influence between the use of gesture and movement in “popular” or
“commercial” genres on the one hand and in the “arts” on the other hand. For Bachzetsis, the
relationship between these varying forms and genres produce an inquiry into the human body and
its potential for transformation. Ultimately, the way we all perform and stage our bodies and
ourselves – through stereotypes and archetypes, through choice and cliché, through labor and
spectacle – is a question that continues to shape her work.
Since 2001, she has created over 30 works, presented at established institutions including Centre
Pompidou, MoMA New York, Tate Modern, the Art Institute of Chicago, Kunsthaus Zürich, and
documenta 13 and 14. Her recent projects include Notebook (2023) a commission for Kunsthalle
St. Gallen, Exposure (2024), a collaboration with Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm and Rush(es) (2025),
a commission for Centre Pompidou performed at Grand Palais in Paris.