«Movements – myself and the many»
This show is postponed due to health reasons

Intergenerational learning, deep exhaustion, hope – three performers and the audience venture on an investigation into the complexity of change.

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  • Fri 07/03 20:00

    Halle Ost

  • Sat 08/03 20:00

    Halle Ost

  • Sun 09/03 18:00

    Halle Ost

  • Mon 10/03 20:00

    Halle Ost

Copyright: Michael Meili

Important notice: Due to health reasons, the premiere and the following performances of ‘Movements - myself and the many’ have to be postponed. The alternative dates will be announced as soon as possible. People who have already booked tickets can have the amount paid refunded or issued as a voucher and will be contacted directly by our box office team.

Many rights and achievements that we take for granted today were fought for by social movements. In «Movements – myself and the many» the Gessnerallee stage becomes a space in which change is rehearsed collectively. Monika Truong and her team explore social movements and activist action in all their complexity, sounding out the relationship between individual involvement and collective strenght. By viewing revolutions not as a snapshot but as an intergenerational achievement, «Movements» creates space for complex emotions, failure and hope. It is an invitation: to listen, to feel, to physically experience and to actively participate.

Hi, can we meet?

Yes

I would like to help.

This is not always easy. 

Are you ready?

Absolutely, it's time.

It takes courage to act. 

I have recognised that. 

We expose ourselves.

The clothing that protects us restricts our freedom of movement.

In the end, only what we move counts.

I took off my protection long ago.

We don't know what you are about.

You don't know that. 

In the big picture, we're on the same side.

Most people are.

And yet I am alone.

We create spaces.

We are on the front line. 

We produce content; we communicate in many languages.

We name the problems and we mobilise.

There are still so many missing pieces. We must not stop.

They won't understand you like that.

They will label us as extremes.

I can deal with that.

It's happened to many before us.

It has just begun. 

This time it will succeed.

Information on accessibility and language 

The event takes places as a Relaxed Performance in English spoken language. There is no division between the stage and the audience: Performers and visitors share the step-free accessible space. There will be performative sequences as well as several participatory elements.

Further information on accessibility will be added on an ongoing basis and may change until the day of the premiere, as the performance is currently being developed.

Disclaimer: live cameras are used on stage. The audience will be partially be visible. The recordings from the live camera will not be saved.

About the artist

Monika Truong is a sociologist, sinologist and theatre maker and works from Zurich along the ambivalences of our social norms. She stages participatory performances in the contradictory experiential space of small-town Swiss socialisation, Chinese-Vietnamese origins, academic training and independent work in the independent theatre scene. A recurring theme in her work is the consistent examination of the asymmetry of social possibilities and power relations as well as the testing of the potentials and limits of art.

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