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.
Content Information: Flickering lights, gagging and gulping sounds, loud and disruptive music
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
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
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
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 (*Stockholm) works with choreography, dance, and performance art, based in Basel, Switzerland. In 2023 they obtained an MA in Expanded Theatre at Bern University of the Arts, HKB.
Tyra’s works have been presented in venues and festivals such as MDT Moderna Dansteatern Stockholm, Kaserne Basel, Les Urbaines, far° Nyon, Joint Adventures Münich, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, ROXY Birsfelden, Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunsthalle Basel/Regionale-24, Weld Stockholm, BONE Performance Art Festival Bern, Shedhalle Zürich, YUP Osnabrück, SITE Sweden, and Amore Basel.
Since their dance diploma in 2013, Tyra has been working as a dancer, performer and artistic collaborator with Gisèle Vienne, Heiner Goebbels, Shu Lea Cheang, Ernestyna Orlowska, Marina Abramovic, Inga Gerner Nielsen, Alexandra Pirici, Pontus Pettersson, Marie Fahlin, Dorte Olesen, Virpi Pahkinen, amongst others.
Tyra’s background in massage therapy and care work has stimulated a curiosity in how artistic and physiotherapeutic practices can intersect and expand subjective corporealities. They embrace choreography and performance art as strategies to connect with the desires and conflicts of the sensing body in its cultural, political, and material environment.
2023-24 “LAB-artist” in residence at Kaserne Basel
