With RUSH(ES), Alexandra Bachzetsis explores introspectively the body as a space of desire, fiction, and self-observation. The title evokes momentum, adrenalin and states of trance or excitement.

On stage, the body becomes a space for fast and intense transformations. Pleasure, loneliness, happiness, or dread are translated into an extreme physicality, where the body flows towards animal figures, objects or even tools. The audience is not here to understand, but to feel.

Through this performance, Bachzetsis questions the way desire has been shaped and marketed by our society. The body becomes a place of resistance, of emancipation and a mirror for our social conscience.

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 theatre, 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 labour 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.