Two men love each other, tear one another apart, find their way back, hate one another and make up. Together, they go through different types of relationships – from an open relationship to chemsex, from a platonic relationship to polyamory – in a constant quest for tenderness, understanding and connecting.

On stage, two bodies embrace, defy one another, reinvent themselves. The embrace becomes a language. Body on body, a way to think the relationship in a different way.
The pas de deux weaves itself with the soundtrack, in an organic movement.

 Joyeux lourdement sous-estimés (Heavily Underestimated Jewels) questions our way of loving and the injunctions of the heteronormative couple. Through the exploration of alternatives, the performance offers a way to free us from the idealization of the couple and to imagine new ways towards a sensitive and incandescent space. Where desire meets fragility. Where tenderness becomes political. Where bodies learn to love as much as to leave.

Biography

Bast Hippocrate is a Swiss Afro-descendant, gay artist, part of the second generation of immigration. His practice is characterized by the staging of raw and magnetic bodies, where vulnerability, physicality, and porosity intersect with societal and interpersonal themes. Through an approach rooted in autofiction, he explores human relationships and how our intimate stories resonate collectively, building bridges between the micro and the macro, the personal and the political.

After a self-directed path, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree from La Manufacture HES-SO Lausanne in 2019. His creations, notably LoveLettersOrNot (2021) and Joyaux lourdement sous-estimés (2025), tenderly and intensely question intimacy, the complexity of connections, and the management of individual traumas.

Bast Hippocrate develops his projects at the intersection of dance, performance, and storytelling, often inspired by pop music and autofictional narratives. He regularly collaborates with artists such as Géraldine Chollet, Simone Aughterlony, and Valerie Reding, while pursuing research aimed at creating spaces of sharing, listening, and resonance, where bodies become territories of connection and transformation.