©Kristian Bengtsson
©Kristian Bengtsson
©Kristian Bengtsson

Alexandra Bachzetsis, Cullberg

Exposure

danse

  • 1h30
  • F Hearing-impaired spectators welcome
  • G Hearing loops
  • A Little or no text
  • B Accessible to persons with reduced mobility

Conception et chorégraphie: Alexandra Bachzetsis. Composition, et création sonore : Alban Schelbert. Scénographie: Ivan Wahren, Alexandra Bachzetsis. Lumière et creation design: Ivan Wahren. Costumes: Laurent Hermann Progin, Ulla Ludwig. Dramaturgie et collaboration conception: Dorota Sajewska. Regard extérieur: Stephen Thompson. Direction répétition: João Dinis Pinho en collaboration avec Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska. Danseureuses: Anand Bolder, Eszter Czédulás, Katie Jacobson, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Noam Segal, Lilian Steiner, Vincent Van der Plas, Antoine Weil, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein. Coach cascades et coordination d'intimité: Nilla Hansson. Collaboration Processus de collaboration et performance: Judith Coumans, Anna Fitoussi, Elin Hallqvist, Camille Prieux. Production: Cullberg, en collaboration avec All Exclusive.

Coproductions: Gessnerallee, Zürich, Kaserne, Basel, Arsenic - Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
Soutiens: Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Art Council, Kanton Zürich, City of Zürich.

 

Additional music in the performance:
Our Love (from the Amerikanische Soldat)
by Antiteater, R.W. Fassbinder, Peer Raben, Ingrid Caven, Günther Kaufmann, Margrit Carstensen
Our Love ℗ 1971 Kuckuck Schallplatten
Lovin’ you
Composed by Minnie Riperton and Richard Rudolph
© Edition Wilhelm Hansen A/S /G. Schirmer Inc
Dickiebird Music and Publishing Co. / Embassy Music Corporation represented by Bosworth Music GmbH/Wise Music Group.

Exposure is an affective study of the nude, by the Swiss / Greek choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis in collaboration with Cullberg. As a choreographer and visual artist Alexandra Bachzetsis has frequently examined the choreographic strategies of the body and how culture provides source material for our gestures, expressions and commodification of fantasy.
In Exposure she’s addressing the stereotypical representation of the body within pop culture, fashion, art and media. This act study, Exposure, reveals elements for performance in endurance, transforming static concepts of power into an empowering language of intimacy.
By constantly shifting the perspective, through the mediation of the body in close up on camera in the space, Bachzetsis creates a parallel reality where our internalized images of the body can find room to dissolve and get liberated.

 

Cullberg is the national and international repertoire contemporary dance company in Sweden, continuously co-creating to make contemporary dance relevant for the many. Together with choreographers and their teams from around the world, we are exploring ideas on how dance can be defined, produced, and presented. Those explorations are the pillars of a company that is constantly in motion at the heart of the international arena. The core of the company consists of 17 extraordinary individual dancers with a central role in the creations. Cullberg is led by artistic director Kristine Slettevold and managing director Stina Dahlström and the institution is a part of Riksteatern, The Swedish National Touring Theatre.

Alexandra Bachzetsis is a choreographer and visual artist who lives and works in Zurich. Her artistic practice is located at the interface between dance, performance, visual art and theatre. Many of her works are concerned with choreographies of the body and in particular with the ways in which we appropriate gestures, modes of expression, patterns of identification and fantasies from popular culture as we constantly reinvent and define our bodies. Bachzetsis is interested in the reciprocal influence of ‘popular commercial’ media (social media, video clips and television) and ‘art’ (ballet, modern and contemporary dance, performance and visual art).

The show contains scenes including full nudity, choreographed violence and intimacy.

It is essential to turn off phones during the show so as not to interfere with the technique.