Baptiste Cazaux | KASERNE-BASEL

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Baptiste Cazaux turns everything upside down. With wild and raw energy, they dance as a DJ would make samples, genres and references clash. That’s twisted is a haunted and heterogeneous collage of dances and sounds from different eras: a psychedelic strategy to transcend nostalgia.

Britney Spears sings: Keep on dancing 'till the world ends, Ke$ha says: The party don't stop, and LMFAO shuffles through a deserted, devastated New York after a dance epidemic that drove people mad.

By shaping listening as a malleable, shifting material, That’s Twisted creates a transformative terrain where temporalities, affects, and intensities are thrown off balance, blurring perceptions of time and reality. Drawing on a nostalgia for 2010s pop anthems—infused with nihilism and a bittersweet, joyful fatalism in the face of an uncertain future—the piece is grounded in a contemporary melancholy that Baptiste Cazaux seeks to move beyond.

Through a collage of dances and sounds spanning different eras, they construct a hybrid space in which gestures, music, and noise bend, overlap, and collide, like a DJ scratching half way through a track. In this sensual, psychedelic drift, memory and disorientation intertwine, revealing a hazy landscape of echoes, fragments, and ever-shifting presences.

Duration: ca. 50 min.

Introduction ca. 15 min. before the show starts

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Biografie

Baptiste Cazaux is a French dancer, choreographer, and DJ based in Geneva, whose practice focuses on sound and performance-making. After training in classical ballet and contemporary dance, they have collaborated with choreographers such as Katerina Andreou, Jan Martens, Ayelen Parolin, and lisa laurent. Their work has been presented in various venues and festivals across Switzerland and Europe.

Credits

choreography & performance Baptiste Cazaux

music Nelly Hello

outside eye Samir Kennedy

sound Gaspard Perdrisat

light creation & technical direction Justine Bouillet

costume Josiane Martinho

dramaturgy Johanna Hilari

outside ear Sandar Tun Tun

administration, production & swiss distribution Yamina Pilli – oh la la performing arts production

international distribution Quentin Legrand – Rue Branly

production HONEYHONEYDANCEDANCE

coproduction Pavillon ADC – Genève, Kaserne Basel

residency Pavillon ADC, Kaserne Basel, Ira Festival, L’Abri

support Loterie Romande Genève, Bourse SSA pour les compositeurs de musique de scène, Pro Helvetia

the creation of That’s Twisted is supported by RESO – Programming Fund 2025 supported by Pro Helvetia and the cantons

the performance was created as part of the (AC)COMPAGNONS program of Pavillon ADC, with support from the Leenards Foundation

aknowledgement lisa laurent, Morgan Carlier, Pauline Coquart, Giulia Essyad, Tamara Alegre, Mayotte de Saulieu, Thibaut Lac, Esther Bachs, Mia La-Brossard, Rares Donca, Fabio Jaramillo, Anne Davier, Katerina Andreou, Mélissa Guex, Kairaan Kika, Doriane Van Elslande, Lewon Heublein, Luca Büchler, Zoe Lefevre, Aurelie Dupuis, Gregg Araki & LMFAO

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