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A double evening with two energetic artists from western Switzerland:
GIMME A BREAK !!! invites you to a powerful search for liberation in the first part of the evening. Inspired by rave culture, meditative practices and headbanging, Baptiste Cazaux explores the art of letting go as a survival strategy in a world dominated by capitalism. Together with loudspeakers, the choreographer creates an intense space full of contrasts in which he follows an indispensable and urgent life impulse.
Immerse yourself, let go, surrender: In the second part of the evening, Mélissa Guex and percussionist Clément Grin defy the demands of everyday life and, in the rousing piece Down (full album), enter together into a state of volatility in which everything touches, moves and drives them forward. Surrounded by the audience, they unfold an explosive, exuberant and insatiable performance - a collective groove from the depths of emotion.
GIMME A BREAK !!! - ca. 45 Min.
Break
Down (full album) - ca. 50 Min.
All By Myself
The program series “All By Myself” brings together artistic positions that position self-empowerment and resistance against a world in crisis - including artists from Geneva, Lausanne, Budapest, Vienna, Warsaw and Basel.
07.02. & 08.02., 20:00 Baptiste Cazaux: GIMME A BREAK!!!
+ Mélissa Guex: Down (full album)
14.02. & 15.02., 19:30 Antje Schupp: You live you learn
14.02. & 15.02., 21:00 Gosia Wdowik: She was a friend of someone else
21.02. & 22.02., 20:00 Viktor Szeri: Fatigue
21.02. & 22.02., 21:30 Krõõt Juurak: Lesson
Dance, theater and performance works that celebrate powerful personal expression, but at the same time shed light on its darker side: individual struggles, inner abysses and struggles. A multi-layered dialog between strength and vulnerability, exhaustion and activism, individual and community!
Livin`Alone?
Nobodies Home?
Don't want to be all by yourselves anymore?
Come together at Kaserne Basel!!! We look forward to seeing you<3
Biography Baptiste Cazaux
After classical dance training in Biarritz, Baptiste Cazaux joined the Ballet Junior de Genève in 2015 and danced works by choreographers such as Olivier Dubois, Sharon Eyal and Thomas Hauert. Today, he works in Switzerland and Belgium with artists such as Jan Martens and Ayelen Parolin and presents his creations on international stages and festivals. Since 2020/21 he has been an associated artist at L'Abri and Théâtre Sévelin 36. In 2022 he took part in the ATLAS program of the Impulstanz Festival. He is currently developing his piece GIMME A BREAK!!! with the support of CND Lyon. Baptiste Cazaux also performs as a DJ under the alias Glaire Waldork.
Credits GIMME A BREAK!!!
Concept, choreography and performance: Baptiste Cazaux
Music: Être Peintre
Artistic assistant: Lisa Laurent
Sound: Gaspard Perdrisat
Light: Justine Bouillet
Dramaturgy: Johanna Hilari
Administration Angie Mennillo / oh la la - performing arts production
Production and Diffusion CH Yamina Pilli / oh la la - performing arts production
International Distribution: Rue Branly – Quentin Legrand
Production: HONEYHONEYDANCEDANCE
Coproduction: La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, L’Abri, Théâtre Sévelin 36, KLAP Maison pour la danse
Supports: Accompanied by CN D - Centre national de la danse (Lyon), Residency support in the frame of programme Danse & Dramatugie: Sudpol Luzern, ROXY Birsfelden, Réseau Grand Luxe (2021-2022), Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Acknowledgements: Pascal Neyron, Marc Streit, Pauline Coquart
Biographys Mélissa Guex / Clément
Mélissa Guex (1993) is a dancer, performer and choreographer. She began her artistic career in Brussels, where she studied performance, before obtaining her Bachelor's degree in contemporary dance at the Manufacture in Lausanne.
Associate artist at Lausanne's Théâtre Sévelin for four years, she created several short pieces, including the solo De ceux - Episode (an improvisation format), as well as her first solo Sous sol.
She also collaborated with renowned choreographers such as Géraldine Chollet, Anna Marija Andomaitie for her piece Pas de deux, Augustin Rebetez, and Katerina Andreou for her first group piece, Bless this mess.
In 2023, her second work, Rapunzel, was presented at Swiss Dance Days in Zurich.
Mélissa is currently touring with her duo DOWN, which she is developing in collaboration with drummer Clément Grin. This project is supported by the Théâtre de Vidy and is touring internationally.
Mélissa navigates between the worlds of nightlife and theater, where she experiments with various forms of performance. She explores transformation through costume and uses urban space as a playground. Since 2019, within Compagnie SUMO, Mélissa Guex and her team have been developing bold artistic work, blending elaborate aesthetics with a touch of darkness.
Credits Down (full album)
Concept, direction & performance
Mélissa Guex
In collaboration with the artistic team
Musical creation & performance
Clément Grin
Support for staging and dramaturgy
Bast Hippocrate
Sound broadcast
Charlotte Vuissoz
Scenography & costumes
Lucie Meyer
Light creation
Justine Bouillet
Artistic advisor
Julie Botet
Administration & diffusion
Amandine Bula
Production
Cie Sumo
Co-production
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Pavillon ADC Genève, RESO
A co-production as part of the Fonds des programmateurs from RESO – Réseau Danse Suisse. Supported by Pro Helvetia and the cantons
Creation as part of the ac(compagnons) program at Pavillon ADC with the support of the Leenaards Foundation
Coproduction partners
Théatre Vidy-Lausanne
Pavillon ADC Genève
With the help of
La ville de Lausanne
Le Canton de Vaud
La Loterie Romande
La Fondation Ernst Göhner
La Fondation Suisse des artistes interprètes
RESO
