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«ZER-BRECH-LICH»
Alessandro Schiattarella & Ensemble

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With plenty of humor and pop music interludes, three disabled performers explore how to deal with their own fragility.

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  • Wed 20/0119:00–20:10

    Halle

  • Thu 21/0119:00–20:10

    Halle

With ‘ZER-BRECH-LICH’, choreographer Alessandro Schiattarella has created a performance that straddles the worlds of music, dance and theatre, exploring fragility and the diversity of bodies. Copyright: Clemens Hedrich
  • Steplessly accessible
  • Relaxed Performance
  • Audio description
  • Various spoken languages
  • Surtitles in DE and ENG

Shattering glass, an exploding balloon, or a cracking piece of wood – the familiar sound when something breaks or shatters. But what does it sound like when something is prevented from breaking? In ‘ZER-BRECH-LICH’, choreographer Alessandro Schiattarella  create a performance that moves between music, dance and theatre and engages with fragility and the diversity of bodies.

On stage, three disabled performers, Victoria Antonova, Alice Giuliani and Laila White, navigate different facets of their identities through dance, text, sounds, objects and songs specially written for the piece by Swiss artist Gina Été. They experiment with sounds as if trying on clothes, explore transformation and search for big pop moments. ‘ZER-BRECH-LICH’ asks how engaging with one's own fragility can become a political act, opening up different ways of sensing, perceiving and relating to one another.

Accessibility information

  • Step-free access

  • Age recommendation: 12+

  • Duration: 70 minutes

  • Languages: in English, German and French spoken language with integrated subtitles in English and German 

  • Audio Description: The show takes place with an integrated live audio description in German spoken language (audible throughout the space without headphones).

  • Relaxed Performance: All shows take place as Relaxed Performances. Audience members are welcome to make noises, move, stim and leave the space and come back at any time.

  • For sold-out performances, we reserve a small number of accessible seats (wheelchair spaces and beanbags). We ask that anyone requiring accessibility support contact kasse@gessnerallee.ch. 

  • ZER-BRECH-LICH is a play by Alessandro Schiattarella.

    The play shows that things and people can easily break.

    It also shows that bodies are different.

    Three female artists with disabilities are on stage.

    They dance, recite lines, make sounds and sing.

    And they seek out special moments reminiscent of pop music.

    The Swiss artist Gina Été wrote the songs for the play.

    The play poses questions:

    • Why is it important that something can easily break?

    • How does this open up new possibilities?

    • How can we feel, see and interact with one another differently?

  • Touring

    Direction, Choreography & Lighting:
    Alessandro Schiattarella
    Performance & Choreography:
    Victoria Antonova, Alice Giuliani, Laila White
    Sound Design:
    Eugenio Fabiani
    Video & Subtitles:
    Manuel Justo
    Audio Description & Translation:
    Linda Wolf
    Production:
    Paula Alonso Gómez

    Feedback zur Barrierefreiheit

    Accessibility Consultant:
    Roy Fischer
    Audio Description Feedback:
    Noah Mundiger, Annika Jakobs
    Subtitles Feedback:
    Wille Felix Zante, Aline Fournier

    Produktion

    Songwriting:
    Gina ÉTÉ
    Stage Design:
    Margarete Albinger
    Costume Design:
    Giulia Marcotullio
    Musical Direction:
    Richard Schwennicke
    Lighting:
    Uwe Wegner
    Dramaturgy:
    Martin Mutschler
    Production & Assistant Direction / Voice-over:
    Terry Blühdorn
    Costume Assistance:
    KE Leu
    Costume Intern:
    Rebecca Stein
    Assistant Direction:
    Ge Lin
    Xchange / Outreach:
    Matthias Brandt, Daniel Riedel
    Sound:
    Vic Leon Meier, Markus Schwieger
    Props:
    Stella Kuprat, Ingmar Mühlich
    Production and co-production:
    Staatsoper Hannover, Schauspiel Hannover, Festival Theaterformen, Theaterakademie Hamburg und ROXY Birsfelden

  • Alessandro Schiattarella is a Neapolitan-Swiss choreographer and performer based in Basel. Drawing from his lived experience as a disabled artist, his practice explores the politics of the body and brings disability culture into dialogue with the institutional dance field. After an international career as a dancer with companies including Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Ballett Basel and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, he developed an interdisciplinary choreographic practice shaped by anti-ableist thinking. His works have been presented internationally at festivals and venues across Europe and beyond. 

  • Kulturstiftung des Bundes through the Jupiter programme, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Fachausschuss Darstellende Künste BS/BL, Pro Helvetia, Patenfonds von Pro Infirmis Basel-Stadt, and Stiftung Mosaik.

Copyright: Clemens Heidrick

Copyright: Clemens Heidrick

Copyright: Clemens Heidrick

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