What happens when dance becomes a political tool, capable of sending us into desirable, sustainable, and sexy futures? Working on choreographic gestures, movements, collective trajectories and rituals, this performance shows a way to imagine relationships of empowerment and vulnerabilities. Seven dancers look at relationships as a contemporary ritual where they can explore each other. A queer focus as an invitation to rethink the regulatory frameworks and explore a multiplicity of relations.

Note of intention

« I am on a sensitive exploration of intermediate spaces, blurred zones, the in-between the lines. There, I focus on deconstructing evidence and questioning established shapes. I am very curious of others, of their life experiences and relationships. I perceive one’s energy as a tangible material to be explored. I am always thinking of our lives and what we can collectively share. What we give our time to, as living beings, and the meaning we put into our actions and our constructions.” Anne-Sylvie Henchoz

Biographies

ASH is a choreographer, performer, and visual artist based in Lausanne. She holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices from HEAD (2012), following a Master’s in Anthropology from Neuchâtel. She develops an interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of dance, installation, film, and performance.

Her work explores human, bodily, and ecological relationships as dynamic processes, through ritual-like scenarios and speculative narratives. In 2020, she founded CHO — Centre Chorégraphique Ouvert à Touxtes, a nomadic laboratory dedicated to collective dance, focused on research, exchange, and experimentation. Ephemeral communities explore landscapes shaped by theoretical frameworks of Relation, Queer theory, and Ecofeminism.

Her work has been presented in institutions such as Les Urbaines, Fri-Art, CAN, MCBA, Manifesta (Zurich), Swiss Art Awards (Basel), Art Night (London), and the ICA Philadelphia. She is a recipient of the Irène Reymond Prize (2017) and the Collide Arts Prize at CERN (2018), and served as curator of the art space Tunnel Tunnel in Lausanne from 2015 to 2019.

Her attentive and poetic approach invites ongoing reflection on bodies, norms, and what constitutes community, with a political and radical perspective.