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Run time: 80 minutes
Language: none
Sensory notes: Loud noises and sounds, shouting, flashing lights, moments of darkness, stage fog, energetic performance
Content notes: The performance contains moments of choreographed violence and intimacy. The performers are naked.
«Exposure» explores the performative power of the nude and the gestural by setting images of the body in motion. It examines the performative strategies of the naked body in art, film, fashion and digital culture, as well as the treatment of the performer’s living body in action through its exposure. Re-framing the ongoing performance of the body in today’s culture of hyper-visibility, the piece reveals media staging as a means of producing and distributing our desires. It also challenges us to experience the limits of the body and to reflect on the conditions of its vulnerability.
| The internationally acclaimed Cullberg company and Alexandra Bachzetsis, a leading figure of the Swiss dance scene, bring one of the most profound and intricate pleasures to the stage: sex – along with all the complex social power relations that influence it. |
The texts for this year’s Tanz in Bern draw from two sources: firstly, what the artists themselves write about their productions, and secondly, how these productions relate to the festival theme pleasurable.
Credits
Choreography: Alexandra Bachzetsis
Composition & Sound Design: Alban Schelbert
Set Design: Ivan Wahren and Alexandra Bachzetsis
Light & Video Design: Ivan Wahren
Costume: Laurent Hermann Progin
Costume Research and Assistance: Ulla Ludwig
Dramaturgy & Collaboration Concept: Dorota Sajewska
Project & Choreographic Consultant: Stephen Thompson
Rehearsal Director: João Dinis Pinho in collaboration with Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska
Stunt coach & intimacy coordinaton: Nilla Hansson
Created in collaboration with the dancers: Anand Bolder, Eszter Czédulás, Anna Fitoussi, Katie Jacobson, Camille Prieux, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Noam Segal, Lilian Steiner, Vincent Van der Plas, Antoine Weil, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein and the apprentices Judith Coumans, Elin Hallqvist
Dancers: Anand Bolder, Katie Jacobson, Andrea Muelas Blanco, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Noam Segal, Lilian Steiner, Vincent Van der Plas, Antoine Weil, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein
Supporters/Sponsors:
Production: Cullberg, in collaboration with All Exclusive
Co-Production: Gessnerallee Zürich, Kaserne Basel, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne
Supported by: Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Art Council, Kanton Zürich, City of Zürich
Text from the movie Pleasure directed by Ninja Thyberg.
Excerpt of choreographic material used with permission from Shay Latukolan.
