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Some stories don’t need long detours. They can be told in a breath, a gesture, a silence. «COME PRIMA» is one of those stories. It is the story of two people who love each other. She is sometimes already elsewhere, caught up in oblivion. He is always there, watching for a spark in her eyes, a fragment of memory. Between them, an invisible thread, fragile and stubborn, resists the passing of time, fading memories, and ageing bodies. We did not choose to tell this story with words. We chose masks, bodies, and breath. Because there are things that words damage, that gestures express with more modesty, with more truth. We wanted a universal story. One that, sooner or later, touches us all: the slow, painful, sometimes imperceptible separation from those we love, as we grow older and our memory fades. What remains then? A clasped hand. An awkward burst of laughter. A gaze that still shines. It is this slim hope that gives us the courage to carry on. It is this spark that we want to share.

Sabrina Pairoux
Sabrina radiates warmth and curiosity. Drawn to people and connection, she discovered forum theatre in 2020, training with Fernand Veuthey, Le Caméléon (Lausanne) and Mamadou Diol (Senegal). In 2023, she joined UTOPIK FAMILY for C’ÉTAIT POUR DE RIRE and in 2024 travelled with gotadeagua to Yaoundé for DE LA PLUME À LA SCÈNE, supporting ten professional actresses and performing at the Dakar festival.

Fabrice Bessire
Fabrice, clown, director and trainer, blends theatre, masks, and physical expression. Founder of UTOPIK FAMILY, he creates poetic, humanist performances worldwide, trained at El Timbal (Barcelona), La Manufacture (Lausanne), and with masters including Familie Flöz, Alex Navarro, Michel Dallaire, and Julien Cottereau (Cirque du Soleil).

Two dancers enter into a dialogue with an electronic sculpture—an interactive, sound- and image-producing entity that communicates via pixels, sound, and synthetic voice. This interaction gives rise to a multi-layered relationship between movement, technology, and perception. The sculpture reacts, interprets, and seems to become an independent actor in its own right—almost like another performer on stage.

The piece is an aesthetic experiment between dance, object, and projection. Breakdance and contemporary dance meet electronic impulses, textiles, and video images. The combination of human presence and digital structure opens up new perspectives: the sculpture becomes a possible extension of the body, a mirror and counterpart to humans – a dance-based exploration of communication, identity, and interaction in digital space.

Rosine, born in 1997, stage dancer. She has been a member of the Compagnie Teki Tekua (Biel) since 2016. After training at the HF for Contemporary and Urban Stage Dance (Zurich, 2022), she worked with various choreographers. She dances for MIR (Basel), cie7273 (Geneva), and ONE (Winterthur), among others, and is also active as a choreographer and teacher.

Marc, alias “SlimSpin,” born in 1987, discovered the breaking scene in 1999. As a dancer, teacher, and organizer, he has shaped hip-hop culture throughout Switzerland. He founded the Capsule Academy and Cie Capsule, with which he professionally produces dance, film, and performance. Marc teaches throughout Switzerland and participates in numerous interdisciplinary projects.

“The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality. […] A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.“ ~Donna Haraway

The performance project CYBORG CYCLE emerges in liminal spaces in-between physical presence and sensorial realms and incorporates concepts of thresholding, shifting, accentuating, and moving in fluid matter. Working with Donna Haraways Cyborg Manifesto we try to focus not only on the relation of the hybrid biological entity and machine. We try to go deeper, questioning dualities and making reflections on constantly shifting corporalities. Therefore we reveal themes such as organism – system – hierarchy – responsibility and intervention in a sudden and unstoppable process.
Many of the questions guiding our project echo Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto: Why can’t we find a common language, move beyond prejudice, and coexist peacefully? Haraway reminds us of the urgent need for unity against the powers of race, gender, sexuality, and class. The cyborg, freed from these hierarchies, embodies a potential for cooperation and transformation beyond human limitations.
zone[27] creates a multi-sensory space where worlds merge through sound and motion. Three performers, recorder, and tape explore hybrid beings and shifting realities—revealing a destabilized image of ourselves: fascinating, unsettling, and transformative.

Since 2021, zone[27] has operated as a transdisciplinary collective exploring bodies in process, listening as a generative tool, and multi-sensory creation. Founded by Alba Glatz, Sophie Renger, and Su Huber, with collaborators Phoebe Wong and KilometroCero, their practice spans performance, dance, music, and design—shaping relations through improvisation and collaboration. Works include CYBORG CYCLE [2022, Vienna], Punto de Quema [2024, Havana], and HYPERVENTILATOR [2024, Zürich]. Current projects explore Enrique[ta] Favez and the long-term piece Antikörper [Tanzhaus Bern, 2026].

With «Mediar» I (Karim) explore the encounter between two dance arts. And in doing so, the transformation of their qualities through my body. With the aim of packaging them into a dance piece.

In this short piece, I work with my technical knowledge of breaking and contemporary dance. Power, explosiveness, and form combine with softness and abstract movements.

My goal is to find ways to incorporate the art of breaking into contemporary dance, far removed from any hype.

As a long-time dancer and, in the beginning, a pure “B-Boy,” it is in my interest to embody this art form in a subtle and integrated way in a stage piece.

Karim Rinaldo has been dancing breaking since 2004. Until 2020, in addition to almost daily breaking training, he attended courses and workshops in other dance styles, such as ballet, contemporary, and partner dances (tango, salsa, and son).

In addition to dancing, he worked in various industries. As a carpenter, industrial climber, businessman, Ayurvedic masseur, dance trainer, and coach. He also founded the Tanzfröid association, the Freakidz cultural movement platform, and was also co-founder of the boyzaround project.

In 2021, he decided to devote himself entirely to his own expression and artistic creation. Over several years, he conducted his own research on movement and attended creative dance workshops.
In 2025, he completed the Creators Program at La Faktoria.

Since spring 2025, he has been dancing in several smaller productions and has been presenting his first solo piece, Sin Nombre.