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09. – 10.
DEC
2022
ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS
Chasing a Ghost
© Mathilde Agius
In Chasing a Ghost, Alexandra Bachzetsis continuously creates a double — a double body, a double sound, a double space, a double image. Challenging the choreographic archetype of the duet, Chasing a Ghost stages these doubles within a spectrum of violence and desire. Central to this duality, a double in itself, is the notion of the uncanny: an estranging phenomenon in a seemingly ordinary context, but also the potential act of transgression as our repressed impulses and subconsciousness may at any time rupture into our experience of reality.
Chasing a Ghost encompasses a choreography for five dancers (including the artist herself), an original music score played live by two pianists, and a stage setting that shifts between live movement and moving image. These elements are in constant relationship, but the connections between them are intentionally disturbed. Bachzetsis transforms the duet into an unsettling image, the movement between two bodies a distressing and unexpected occurrence, a perpetual “folie-à-deux” that challenges how we look at ourselves and others.
Time
19:30–20:30
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 25/20/10 Wahlabo
Additional Information
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Artist Bio
Alexandra Bachzetsis
is a choreographer and visual artist based in Basel and Zurich. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theatre, generating a conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest. Much of Bachzetsis’s work involves choreographies of the body and, in particular, the way that popular culture provides source material for gesture, expression, identification, and fantasy as we continually create and re-create our bodies and the way we identify. Her latest performances have been coproduced by Tate Modern, Documenta 14, MoMA NY, the Art Institute Chicago and Centre Pompidou. alexandrabachzetsis.com -
Credits
Konzept, Choreografie
Alexandra BachzetsisKollaboration, Konzept, Bühne
Sotiris VasiliouKreation, Performance
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Gabriel Schenker, Sotiris VasiliouMusikarrangement, Performance
Simon Bucher, Mischa CheungSoundkonzept
Lies VanbormKurator
Hendrik FolkertsDramaturgie
Dorota SajewskaKostümdesign, Fashiondesign
Léa Dickely, Hung La / Kwaidan EditionKostümdesign, konzeptionelle Beratung, Recherche
Christian HerscheKostümdesign, Styling
Priska Morger, Eva BühlerKommunikationsdesign
Julia BornFotografie
Mathilde AgiusErste Fotoassistenz
Andreas Warren MattiZweite Fotoassistenz
Fabienne WatzkeHaar, Make-up Shooting
Stephanie KunzTechnische Leitung, Lichtdesign
Patrik RimannTontechnik
Jonas HäniTechnischer Toursupport
Matyas BokorManagement, Tourmanagement
Regula Schelling, Franziska SchmidtProduktion
Association All Exclusive, Regula Schelling, Franziska Schmidt – Im Auftrag von The Art Institute of Chicago. Gefördert durch die Kooperationsvereinbarung zwischen der Stadt Zürich, dem Kanton Zürich und der Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung, der Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel-Stiftung, der Stanley Thomas Johnson-Stiftung, dem Migros-Kulturprozent, der Sophie und Karl Binding-Stiftung. Eine Koproduktion von Art Gallery of Ontario, Mudam Luxemburg, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Tanzquartier Wien, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Julidans, Amsterdam, Gessnerallee Zürich. Die Koproduktion wird im Rahmen des Programmers’ Fund of Reso – Dance Network Switzerland unterstützt von Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council. Sachsponsoring Yamaha Pianos, bereitgestellt von Yamaha Artist Services, New York, Kwaidan Editions, London. Dank an Cynthia Leung, Edward Traskowski, Paul B Preciado, Adam Szymczyk, Verena Bachzetsis, Jannis Tsingaris, André Desponds, Aphroditi Antoniou, Raphael Hefti und Li Tavor. -
Events
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DEC
09
19:30 – 20:30
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Chasing a Ghost
Time
19:30 – 20:30
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 25/20/10 Wahlabo
Additional Information
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DEC
10
19:30 – 20:30
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Chasing a Ghost
Time
19:30 – 20:30
Location
TQW Halle G
Duration
60 Min
Price
€ 25/20/10 Wahlabo
Additional Information
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© Mathilde Agius
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© Mathilde Agius
