Alina Arshi, a choreographer from Lausanne, concludes her three-month residency by addressing the following questions: How to make dance pieces out of pure theory? On the construction site of multiple and simultaneous translations, where exactly does the imagerial seed sprout? How to push this sometimes hefty furniture of intuition out of the blind spot so we can understand it better? Wrong answers only :) 

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"Since the beginning and by the end of 2025 I will have kneaded, ruptured and put back together again and again the phenomena, concepts and words, in ascending order of obscurity, that are: double bind, metaphor, and sex. What they mean, what people think they mean, what they mean to me, what they mean to each other. Mainly I have read, read, and read, anything that gave off the remotest of their scent - just the title could suffice. The two most important participants in this domain would be Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind, and Zupančič's What IS sex? 

That said, I am a dancer, not in my speed-of-light pirouettes but in the logic of my understanding of and participation with the world around me. So I think with the body, that is, with a logic that is the very essence to the format of our head-shoulders-knees-and-toes beings. AKA, Why is it hard to cook? I’ve only broken a toe. Or, think about what it means to “understand in the stomach”. 

So, I start with theory and end with dance pieces. In the 3 months in Kaserne I have attempted to both, look at these two elements separately in all their fervour and scope, but also tried to labour the zone of their merging out of the blind spot of intuition. 

What you will see is (1) a performance (3) and how (2) its building blocks built it."

The showing is part of Cliffhanger #2.

Box office: Tickets can be purchased 15 minutes before the start of the show at the meeting point of the respective venue.