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Alexandra Bachzetsis, Swiss star of the dance scene and darling of the art world, repeatedly explores the choreographic strategies of the body in her works. Exposure is a performative study of the nude, developed by the Swiss-Greek choreographer and visual artist in collaboration with the world-famous Cullberg Compagnie from Stockholm.
Bachzetsis dedicates this nude study to the relationship between nudity and clothing, tenderness and violence, intimacy and alienation. In doing so, she manages to empower the dancers and audience through emotionally charged images and situations. The piece exposes the social power relations that shape body discipline, gender representations and sexuality in real life and on stage.
Duration 90 Min.
Introduction ca. 20 Minutes before the show starts
Biography
Cullberg is the national and international repertoire contemporary dance company in Sweden, continuously co-creating to make contemporary dance relevant for the many. Together with choreographers and their teams from around the world, we are exploring ideas on how dance can be defined, produced, and presented. Those explorations are the pillars of a company that is constantly in motion at the heart of the international arena. The core of the company consists of 17 extraordinary individual dancers with a central role in the creations. Cullberg is led by artistic director Kristine Slettevold and managing director Stina Dahlström and the institution is a part of Riksteatern, The Swedish National Touring Theatre.
Alexandra Bachzetsis is a choreographer and visual artist who lives and works in Zurich. Her artistic practice is located at the interface between dance, performance, visual art and theatre. Many of her works are concerned with choreographies of the body and in particular with the ways in which we appropriate gestures, modes of expression, patterns of identification and fantasies from popular culture as we constantly reinvent and define our bodies. Bachzetsis is interested in the reciprocal influence of «popular commercial» media (social media, video clips and television) and «art» (ballet, modern and contemporary dance, performance and visual art).
Credits
Concept and choreography: Alexandra Bachzetsis
Composition and sound design: Alban Schelbert
Set design: Ivan Wahren, Alexandra Bachzetsis
Lighting and creation design: Ivan Wahren
Costumes: Laurent Hermann Progin, Ulla Ludwig
Dramaturgy and design collaboration: Dorota Sajewska
Outside eye: Stephen Thompson
Rehearsal director: João Dinis Pinho in collaboration with Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska
Dancers: Anand Bolder, Eszter Czédulás, Katie Jacobson, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Noam Segal, Lilian Steiner, Vincent Van der Plas, Antoine Weil, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein
Stunt coach and intimacy coordination: Nilla Hansson
Collaboration process and performance: Judith Coumans, Anna Fitoussi, Elin Hallqvist, Camille Prieux
Production: Cullberg, in collaboration with All Exclusive
Coproductions: Gessnerallee, Zürich, Kaserne, Basel, Arsenic - Centre d'art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
Support: Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Art Council, Kanton Zürich, City of Zürich
