This event is wheelchair accessible.
On Sunday show with 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)
In a new choreography by Tyra Wigg and their team, profit-driven algorithms collide with the raw power of our digestive organs. How do these opposite forces interact with each other in the individual and the collective body?
Lick Life Against the Direction of its Fur conjures a both playful and unsettling world eerily close to our own. Three dancers echo an ambiguous optimism from the pre-doomscrolling era of the 1980s. They orbit each other in a restless search for a shared future but it’s tricky to progress when being overfed with movements and words that are hard to digest. This sticky content is chewed and regurgitated in a dopamine-fuelled feedback loop until the internal space of the dancers, and of the theatre itself, screams of sick gut feelings. Hungry eyes, exploring tongues and convoluting stomachs transform this systemic constipation into a metabolic dance that
refuses to subscribe.
Content Information: Flickering lights, gagging and gulping sounds, loud and disruptive music
Accessibility Introduction 11.-14. September before the show starts
Credits
Concept, choreography: Tyra Wigg
Dance, performance: Kihako Narisawa, Jessica Tamsin Alleman, Declan Whitaker
Music: Elischa Heller, 222Rn
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