[création] Alexandra Bachzetsis
Rush(es)
As part of Fun Palace +
Conseillé à partir de 16 ans
In her new solo performance Rush(es), Alexandra Bachzetsis situates the Self within autofiction, autoeroticism and autodocumentation. Envisioned as an introspective journey, the performance challenges taboos of behavior and explores the commodified nature of desire as it is both constructed and deconstructed by the dancing body.
Rush(es) is characterised by rapid transformations that push the body to its limits, reflecting pleasure, joy, solitude, anxiety through the intense physicality of the performer. In the process of corporeal metamorphosis, Bachzetsis navigates her body so that it ceases to be human and morphs into something else – an animal, an object, a tool.
In this solo performance, the audience is invited to perceive, examine and experience these physical transformations as a reflection of the collective consciousness. Rush(es) thus aims to evoke intuitive, immediate responses to music, space, text, and the actions of the body, taking both performer and audience into a heightened state of awareness and transformation.
biography
Alexandra Bachzetsis is a choreographer and visual artist, based in Zürich. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theater, generating a conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest.
Since 2001, she has created over 30 pieces, which have been shown in theaters, festivals and public space venues around the world. In addition to this, her work has been exhibited in a variety of contemporary art spaces and museums, including Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2023), Kunsthaus Zurich (Zurich, 2022), the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2019), the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2017), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2013 and 2015), Tate Modern (London, 2014), the Jumex Museum (Mexico City, 2014), and Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, 2008), as well as a number of international biennials and large-scale exhibitions, such as documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel, 2017), the Biennial of Moving Images (Geneva, 2014), (d)OCUMENTA 13 (Kassel, 2012), as well as the 5th Berlin Biennial (Berlin, 2008).
Bachzetsis was awarded the Zurich Kunstpreis in 2018, she was also nominated for the DESTE Prize (2011) and is a laureate of the Migros Kulturprozent Jubilee Award (2007), the Swiss Art Award (2011 and 2016), and Swiss Performance Prize (2012).
Bachzetsis’ monograph Show Time Book / Book Time Show was published in 2023 edited by Hendrik Folkerts and designed by Julia Born. Alexandra Bachzetsis recent work entitled Exposure was commissioned by Cullberg in Stockholm. This act study reveals elements of endurance in performance, transforming static concepts of power into an empowering language of intimacy. The work premiered in Sweden in September 2024 and is currently touring in Europe.
Credit
CONCEPT / CHOREOGRAPHY / PERFORMANCE: Alexandra Bachzetsis
CONCEPT / DRAMATURGY: Dorota Sajewska
TEXTS BY: Lee Lozano © The Estate of Lee Lozano. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
CONCEPTUAL ADVISOR: Stephen Thompson
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska
MUSIC COMPOSITION AND SOUND DESIGN: Alban Schelbert
COSTUME DESIGN: Laurent Hermann Progin
SET DESIGN: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Ivan Wahren
LIGHT AND VIDEO DESIGN: Ivan Wahren
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Ivan Wahren, Patrick Rimann
ARCHIVE AND COMMUNICATION: Jean-Marie Fahy
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY: Piotrn Niepsuj
PRODUCTION / STUDIO MANAGEMENT: All Exclusive, Caroline Krieg
TOUR MANAGEMENT: Laurent Hermann Progin
PUBLICATION PROJECT FOR RUSH(ES)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Piotr Niepsuj
PUBLISHED AND PRODUCED: Edizioni C/O BARDI
EDITED: Marina Montresor
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Cabinet Milano
Grateful for the generous support and contribution from the Circle of Friends
SUPPORTED BY: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zurich, , Erna und Curt Burgauer Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, E. und O. Gubler-Halblützel Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim-Stiftung
COPRODUCED WITH: Centre Pompidou and the Centre Culturel Suisse à Paris, Kaserne Basel, Arsenic Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Kunsthaus Zurich, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Edizioni C/O BARDI
SPECIAL THANKS: Christine Binswanger, Alexandra Blättler, Julia Born, Björn Glaus, Nicole Schmidt, Adam Szymczyk, Mirjam Varadinis, Sotiris Vasiliou, Charlotte von Stotzingen, Noémie Weill, Michał Woliński, Experimenter Gallery, Karma International Gallery, Komuna Warsawa, kurimanzutto Gallery, Meyer-Riegger Gallery, Piktogram Gallery.
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