Bast Hippocrate
Jouyaux lourdement sous-estimés
Tickets
Duration: 55 minutes
Sensory notes: laser lights
Childcare during the show of 14.2.2026, 10:30-12:30 a.m.
Going to the theatre with children, even when no children’s performance is being shown? For this performance, the free childcare service makes it possible.
Adults responsible for the children can leave kids up to the age of 10 in the care of the professionals from Gioia Cares and enjoy the performance without worries. During the childcare, children can choose from a wide range of activities such as playing, crafting, drawing, and letting off steam.
Childcare starts 30 minutes before the performance begins.
Registration: vermittlung@dampfzentrale.ch. Free of charge.
Advance ticket sales start: January 15, 2026
«Joyaux lourdement sous-estimés» – which might translate into English as «strongly underestimated jewels» – is the story of two men who love, fight, rediscover, hate and reconcile with one another, as if in a dark dream. Searching for tenderness, mutual understanding and connection, together they explore different forms of relationships: from open relationships to chemsex, from platonic connections to polyamory. On stage, the two bodies merge, challenging one another, reinventing themselves. Embraces become a language, grappling with another body a form of rethinking relationships. Pas de deux and music combine in a polyphonic patchwork of identity fragments, sonic colours and pop music.
«Joyaux lourdement sous-estimés» questions our ways of loving and the scripts of heteronormative couples. By exploring alternative couple structures, the piece invites viewers to liberate themselves from the idealization of the couple and imagine new forms – towards a sensitive, illuminated space where lust and vulnerability coexist, where tenderness becomes political, and where bodies learn to love and leave one another.
Biography
Credits
Artistic direction: Bast Hippocrate
Performance Performance: Bast Hippocrate, Marcos Arriola
Sound design: Golce Kummer
Light design: Tiki Bordin
Sound engineer: Thibault Villard
Fashion design: Zoé Marmier
Dramaturgy: Sélima Chibout
Outside eye: David Weishaar, Mélissa Guex
Jewelry Capucine: Jewellry
Editorial consultation: Noémi Schaub
Administration: Victoria Wuthrich
Revolving platform: Lazy Suzy, created by Jonas Maria Droste for the piece «EveryBody’s Fantasy» by Jen Rosenblit
Diffusion: Maxine Devaud / Oh la la Productions
Co-production: TPR – Centre neuchâtelois des arts vivants, ADN-Danse Neuchâtel, Arsenic
Support: Ville de la Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton de Neuchâtel, Ernst Göhner Foundation, BCN Foundation, Casino Neuchâtel, Loterie Romande
