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Private song

Alexandra Bachzetsis

Private song

Art, as French philosopher Jacques Derrida remarked, depends on how you frame it – a painting’s frame, for example, delimits what is seen. In her piece Private Song, Alexandra Bachzetsis follows this reasoning and proposes a new "frame" through which the work may be perceptively approached.

Art, as French philosopher Jacques Derrida remarked, depends on how you frame it – a painting’s frame, for example, delimits what is seen. In her piece Private Song, Alexandra Bachzetsis follows this reasoning and proposes a new "frame" through which the work may be perceptively approached. The goal is to question, emphasize or neutralize the relationship between the audience and the bodies moving on stage. To this end she draws from heterogeneous sources, confronting the voices and codified gestures of Greek Rebetiko with those of Hollywood style fight scenes, as well as visual portrayals of love and war. On a chessboard, solos, duos, trios and songs intertwine. The bodies, though drawn one to the others, end up misunderstanding or misinterpreting and are finally incapable of coming together - because what is acceptable or not also delimits the possibility for action within each given context. Through a phantasmic staging the scenic mechanisms of Private Song succeed in channelling both perception and affect and thus impacting the viewer’s perspective.

From 7 to 8 February 2019
Durée:
60 min
Salle Charles Apothéloz

Dance

Not included in the General Pass

Dates and times

Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 8:30pm Thu 07.02 20h30
Season 18/19
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 3:00pm Fri 08.02 15h00
Season 18/19

The Swiss Dance Days shows are not included in the General Pass

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Alexandra Bachzetsis

Choreographer

Alexandra Bachzetsis

Alexandra Bachzetsis (Zurich) est chorégraphe et artiste visuelle, formée à l’Ecole Dimitri, au STUCK Arts Center (BE) et au DAS Arts (NL). Sa pratique se déroule à la croisée des chemins de la danse, de la performance, des arts visuels et du théâtre. Amalgamant les espaces dans lesquels le corps peut se manifester comme appareil artistique et critique, son travail s’inspire d’une pluralité de références culturelles pour thématiser la construction sociale et collective des sentiments et des comportements sexués. Alexandra Bachzetsis est lauréate du prix DESTE (2011), du Prix suisse de la Performance (2012), du Swiss Art Award (2016) et du Prix d’art de la ville de Zurich. A Vidy elle a présenté Private song en février 2019.

From the same artist
Chasing a Ghost
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© Nikolas Giakoumakis
Credits

Conception and choregraphy:
Alexandra Bachzetsis

Dramaturgy:
Tom Engels

Sound:
Tobias Koch

Costume design:
Casima Gadient
en collaboration avec
Yonatan Zohar

Light design:
Patrick Rimann

Stage design:
Peter Baur

Production:
Anna Geering

With:
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Thibault Lac
Sotiris Vasiliou

Production:
Association All Exclusive

Coproduction:
Volksbüne Berlin - Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem

With the support of:
Schering Stiftung, Stichting Ammodo. In the period 2018-2020, Alexandra Bachzetsis receives subsidies as part of the cooperative funding agreement between the City of Zurich, Fachausschuss Tanz&Theater BS/BL and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.

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