New York choreographer Faye Driscoll is showing her work in Switzerland for the first time - for several years she has been delighting critics and audiences alike and has won the prestigious Bessie Award, to name just one.

Created with the Bremen-based dance company Unusual Symptoms, CALVING is a lively, dynamic sculpture of bodies, sounds, smells, liquids and objects. Six performers stage a constantly changing tableau vivant on a moving, bed-like stage and unfold a ritual of touch. The audience surrounds the performers, close enough to smell the scenery and feel the pull of their movement.

The title Calving refers to the breaking off of large masses of ice at the edge of a glacier and serves as a metaphor for the slow merging of bodies. Boundaries become blurred - between the performers, between stage and audience, between choreography, sound and sculpture.

CALVING is a breathing, breathtaking work - a choreography full of micro-events, on the threshold of the perceptible. A luminous evening in a dark time that activates all the senses and invites us to experience our relationship to other bodies in a new way. 

Faye Driscoll is known for works that make complex demands on the senses and make the audience aware of their own involvement in the action. Her productions, which were created in the USA, have been shown at festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Festival d'Automne Paris and the Melbourne Festival. Together with the Bremen-based company Unusual Symptoms, Faye Driscoll has now produced a new piece in Europe for the first time.

Duration: approx. 60 min.

Childcare on Sunday, 24.03.: For children between 3 and 10 years, free of charge. We can only offer childcare if you register by March, 17 via online form; meeting point at the box office 30 minutes before the start of the performance, further information: For families.

Website Unusual Symptoms