Alexandra Bachzetsis – CHASING A GHOST
In her current work, the provocative and innovative choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis proposes to use the body as an artistic and critical lens to examine contemporary image production. For Chasing a Ghost, the artist is working with four dancers and two pianists on a performance that explores the concept of the “double”, which manifests itself in a series of duets. Bachzetsis draws on the fields of popular culture, literature, art history and fashion to expand the choreographic archetype of the duet with references to doppelganger, mirror image and uncanny doubling.
In Chasing a Ghost Bachzetsis connects and interrupts. She produces an image, movement or sound that is almost immediately doubled. A recognisable sound changes and becomes something else. A room that seemed familiar is shown from a different angle, and a movement that has just taken place appears in a different form a second later. Via the body, identity, the (moving) image and the space of the performance, Bachzetsis investigates fluidity and permanence – until we question what we have just thought and seen, only to let it be seen again in a different light.
Bild: © Mathilde Agius
SHOWS
BUNDESKUNSTHALLE BONN
Tuesday, 22. September 2020, 20:00
MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE GRAND-DUC JEAN LOUXEMBOURG
Friday, 25. September 2020, 21:00
Saturday, 26. September 2020, 21:00
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura - CANCELLED
Thursday, 12. November 2020, 20:30
TEAM
Concept/ Choreography
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Concept Collaboration / Stage Design
Sotiris Vasiliou
Creation / Performance
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Johanna Willig-Rosenstein, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Gabriel Schenker, Sotiris Vasiliou
Musical arrangement
Simon Bucher, Mischa Cheung
Composition
Lies Vanborm
Curator
Hendrik Folkerts
Dramaturgy
Dorota Sajewska
Costume Design
Léa Dickely and Hung La / Kwaidan Editions
Conceptual consultant / research
Christian Hersche
Styling
Priska Morger, Eva Buehler
Communication Design
Julia Born
Photography
Mathilde Agius
Photography Assistance
Andreas Warren Matti, Fabienne Watzke
Make-Up Shooting
Stephanie Kunz
Light Design
Patrik Rimann
Sound Design
Jonas Häni
Technical Support on tour
Matyas Bokor
Production Management
Regula Schelling, Franziska Schmidt, produktionsDOCK