This event is wheelchair accessible.
Sunday show with free childcare
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The stomach, the gut, and the processes of digestion are not merely metaphors but sites of real biological and political significance.
— Elizabeth A. Wilson, Gut Feminism (2015)
Three performers summon dances and fashions of the dazzlingly ambivalent 1980s: an era where bright colours, campy jazz dance moves, and eccentric styles dominated – and where algorithms, doomscrolling, and neofascism were already hauntingly present.
Tension is in the air: hope, fear, nostalgia, and gut feelings collide, creating friction – against the smooth interfaces that alienate us from our bodies today.
Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur, the new choreography by Tyra Wigg & team, unfolds a world full of contradictions: words and movements get caught in a feedback loop, chewed up and spat out again. Ultimately, it is the stomach and intestines that decide what can be digested and what cannot.
Duration: ca. 1h
Sensory Notes: Flickering lights, loud and disruptive music, gagging and gulping sounds, loud and disruptive music, fog
Acces Tour on September, 11-14: a team member will introduce you to the performance space and content notes, 30 min before the performance starts
Aftertalk after the show on September, 11
Physical Introduction before the show on September, 13 at 7 pm with Natascha Moschini
Childcare on Sun 14.9.:
For children between 3 and 10 years, free of charge. We can only offer childcare if you register via the online form; meeting point at the box office 30 minutes before the start of the performance, further information: Participate
Credits
Concept, choreography: Tyra Wigg
Dance, performance: Kihako Narisawa, Jessica Tamsin Alleman, Declan Whitaker
Sound: Elischa Heller
Voices by Kihako Narisawa, Jessica Tamsin Alleman, Declan Whitaker, Tyra Wigg, Elischa Heller,
Screams by Sam Ramer, Sab Barzer, Milena Sentobe, Elischa Heller
Sound technician: Pam Meyer
Light design, technical direction: Chiara Leonhardt
Costume: Anne-Sophie Raemy
Stage objects: Tyra Wigg & Ernestyna Orlowska
Dramaturgy: Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez
Production: Paula Alonso Gomez
Production assistant: Lean Rüegg
Fundraising/Pre-Production: Caroline Froelich (Moin Moin Productions)
Co-production: Kaserne Basel
Support: Fachausschuss für Darstellende Künste Basel-Stadt/Baselland, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Stiftung Landis & Gyr
Residencies: Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallée Zürich, CAMPO Gent
Tyra Wigg
Tyra Wigg is a choreographer, dancer, and performance artist whose work explores desires and tensions of the sensing body within its cultural, political, and material surroundings. Drawing on a background in massage therapy and care work, many of their performances intersect artistic and physiotherapeutic practices to alter embodied perceptions and shift the modes of spectatorship.
Wigg’s performances have been presented at venues and festivals such as Kaserne Basel, MDT Stockholm, Les Urbaines, far° Nyon, Joint Adventures Munich, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, ROXY Birsfelden, Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunsthalle Basel, Museum Tinguely, Weld Stockholm, and Shedhalle Zürich.
As a performer and collaborator, Wigg has worked with Gisèle Vienne, Heiner Goebbels, Shu Lea Cheang, Ernestyna Orlowska, Marina Abramović, Inga Gerner Nielsen, Alexandra Pirici, among others.In 2020 Wigg relocated their homebase from Stockholm, Sweden to Basel, Switzerland. In 2023, they completed an MA in Expanded Theatre at Bern University of the Arts (HKB). Tyra Wigg was a LAB-artist at Kaserne Basel season 2023-24.
