Two years of Brücki 235!

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«2 years of Brücki 235 - A short piece festival»

With the 2 years of Brücki 235 festival, Zurich's dance and theater scene moves into the Gessnerallee with a brilliant, diverse program. This is something to celebrate!

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Thu 19/06 19:00 – 21:30
Halle Ost
Fri 20/06 19:00 – 22:30
Halle Ost
Sat 21/06 19:00 – 22:30
Halle Ost
Sun 22/06 18:00 – 20:30
Halle Ost

Zurich's dance and theater scene has been putting on its own program at Brücki 235 for two years now. And that needs to be celebrated!

At the short play festival organized by the self-managed “uncurated space” Brücki 235 in collaboration with Gessnerallee, a total of 30 artists and groups present their contributions of up to 20 minutes in length. Over four evenings, the audience can experience the diversity of Zurich's dance, theater and performance landscape up close: From dances to music on hold, questions about exhaustion and perfection to vampires, genetic manipulation, deconstructed opera arias and Cyr Wheel acrobatics - the spectrum is colorful and varied.

What makes it special: There is no artistic curation at Brücki 235 - a council of scene representatives makes a fair selection based on the registrations and ensures that as many dance and theater artists as possible can perform.

A unique opportunity to get to know the Zurich dance and theater community in all its diversity.

Information on accessibility and language

Stepless access

Language: mixed in German, Swiss German, English, not language-based

There is a break of around 30 minutes every evening.

Information on Content Notes and Sensory Notes can be found on the website under the respective short piece.

Brücki 235

Brücki 235 is the organizer of the “uncurated space” of the City of Zurich for a pilot phase from 2023-2026. It is a joint initiative of TANZLOBBY, t.Punkt Theaterschaffen Zürich and assitej Regiogruppe Zürich.

projekt.vakuum: «MÜDE»
Numb, limp, empty, powerless... We are all ‘tired’ at some point, but what if this condition persists - for months or years? When do you admit to being ill? When are we no longer ‘normal’ and when does being tired take us to the limits of our existence?
Content Notes: depression, suicidal thoughts
Sheila Lindauer: «Das Ritual – work in progress»
Rituals mark transitions - farewells, new beginnings. This ritual sheds light on relationship patterns that span generations. It examines the ambivalence of love, pain and growth and asks: How does the unspoken shape us? What can be transformed through mindfulness?
Simon Huggler: «Drumance»
Hit it in. Really hard in the centre, then it gets loud. You set the pace and don't slow down. Wood scrapes across the skin. Let go, but like this and perfectly. Come on, make an effort!
Content Notes: loud music, strobe
Sensory Notes: violence, self-inflicted violence
NIKE SHENTO & Performers: «nina/traumatize me harder»
«nina/traumatize me harder» is a performative work between sound, song and movement that deals with collective experiences of violence, care and resistance. The starting point is the aria ‘Nina’, which is deconstructed and reinterpreted in terms of content and music.
choreoART.wortART / Jochen Heckmann: «tanzen fallen fliegen» (CANCELLED)
«tanzen fallen fliegen» – A sensual expedition between body and word. In 20 minutes, dance and literature merge into a breathing work of art. Three movement chapters explore the boundaries between control, freedom, falling and weightlessness - a seductive performance that surprises.
Ladina Amber Nimuë Whitehead: «Daughter of Freedom»
«Daughter of Freedom» addresses the conflict between external pressure to conform and the inner urge for freedom. In a powerful language of movement from contemporary dance, hip-hop and waacking, emotions can be physically experienced as ‘energy in motion’.
Content Notes: partial nudity
Britta Güntert: «la macchina sfortunata»
A man drives into the forest to look for mushrooms and disappears without a trace. All that remains is his car at the edge of the forest. Two years later, his son drives the same car. He does not return either. A fatal fall into the lake. The mother is left behind. With the silence. The car. The misfortune.
Content Notes: mourning
Sensory Notes: the performance uses loud alarm sound effects and red lights once
Neil Höhener, Nadika Mohn: «The In Between»
«The In Between» explores the body as a canvas for identity, between and collective expression. Inspired by pop culture and authenticity, the choreography moves from artificial rigidity to organic vitality & reflecting the tension between surface and essence.
DAS FLAMMENDE FAGOTT: «I came for you»
With body, sound and movement, «I came for you» explores the power structures and political dynamics of mainstream pornography. Spaces between identification, objectification, intimacy and violence. The tension between hegemonic views and emancipatory appropriation.
Content Notes: sexually explicit language
Naomi Meyer: «Circle of Connection»
Naomi Meyers «Circle of Connection» combines cyr wheel, dance and acrobatics. Her performance celebrates the power of friendship, the wild spontaneity of life and the magic of the moment - humorous, playful and full of emotion.
commun-i-care: «Spoken Word»
When does sound become word, word become movement? When words fail, what other forms of communication can we use, as artists and as people? In the interdisciplinary creation, the artists examine similarities, differences and transitions between sound, language and movement.
Content Notes: loud shouting in parts
Something divine: «Touch me Tiger»
Touch me Tiger is a physical theater piece merging from the observation of the self that is constantly influenced by predetermined forms of being. The collective Something Divine consist of three performers that meets in self ironic common space to share stories present in their female born bodies.
Content Notes: nudity
Sensory Notes: strobe light
Eckstein/ Barral: «Die Erschöpfungsgeschichte»
The theatrical novella «Die Erschöpfungsgeschichte» attempts to develop a utopian alternative to the Western myth of creation myth to formulate a utopian alternative to the western idea of growth and renewal. The musical reading is a work in progress - we are showing an intermediate stage.
Antonia Joséphine Meier: «Bissig»
Two vampires meet. One asks: ‘How are you?’ The other replies: ‘You bite your way through...’ ' Recently, the actress Antonia J. Meier learnt that she is a vampire. Because not quite sure what to do with this diagnosis, she went in search of a stage.
Martin Bas: «From the Depth, They who Breathes»
They who breathe, can’t hear the whispers of the buildings. They who don’t breathe, have their words come from the rubble. A need to reach out to friends in powerlessness in the face of destruction, and the conflicting desires stirred by the collapse of the buildings on Rue d’Aubagne in Marseille.
LaDina Bucher // LaDina Tanzcompagnie: «FEUERPROBE»
A flamenco dance theatre that tells the story of LaDina Bucher's personal artistic journey, inspired by her childhood dream of becoming a dancer. «FEUERPROBE» reflects the highs and lows of a life and depths of a life between art, identity and social expectations.
company never mind: «AGE OF DESIGN»
«AGE OF DESIGN» sketches a future world in which genetic manipulation of humans has become the norm. Two characters - who resemble each other like twins - move in unison and and invite us on a journey through their inner and outer lives in this designed society.
ILA - Institut für Lesbische Angelegenheiten: «Wir trafen uns in einem Sommer»
Scene: An appointment in the late summer light. Just before an approaching downpour. You were already there. Legs dangling on the table tennis table. I stopped and looked at you. You were very beautiful. A performance about lesbian-queer coming of age and pop culture between fiction and biography.
Inbar Elkayam: Hetz/ ץח
«Hetz/חֵץ» is a duet that explores individuality within society, where the desire to belong blurs the line between free will and collective influence, revealing our shared illusion of choice.
Back To Wollyhood: «undersized empire (preshowing)»
A sensual-performative journey into the invisible: In an installative experimental set-up Back To Wollyhood presents the first finds of her artistic research into microorganisms - fleeting images fleeting images, sounds and thoughts from a world beyond the perceptible.
Ailin Nolmans: «Ligamentum (Un)Vocale»
A performative attempt on different embodiments, dynamics and processes of losing and (re)claiming voice and self-expression. A living archive of voices lost and regained. A score for the unspeakable. A body-based ethnography. A liturgy of what the body remembers — even when words fail.
Content Notes: sexual violence
Sensory Notes: the performance is loud
Nina Evelyn Pfüller: «Zuckerschaum»
«Zuckerschaum»: Sweet as sugar that melts on the tongue, ephemeral as the foam on the waves waves - a dance of beauty and transience unfolds between illusion and truth.
Ivana Balabanova (Bala Productions): «YUGO»
«YUGO» by Ivana Balabanova is a contemporary performance piece that examines the complexities of female rage, a powerful, often hidden emotion born from systemic oppression, patriarchal violence, and societal expectations.
Content Notes: violence
Sensory Notes: loud live music
Company LOOM: «Brothers and Sisters?»
We are all human beings. The play is about humanity and the world we live in. People with the same background, the same traditions and the same culture fight against each other. People who were once like brothers and sisters.
Alex Ferro, Luca Magni: «Jasper and his last bits»
The stage is populated by different chairs, or different realms, perhaps? A figure appears and begins to remember, to experience again what was once tangible. Even if only for a second or two. Bringing back to life this long-gone individual’s reality. For us or for himself?
Manning Dong, Aleksandra Stoliarova: «Kreis 1 (in Arbeit)»
Perfection seems to be a fetish of our society. This topic for us is related to exclusion and predetermination. Why do we need certain standards and classifications to measure and calculate? How do the rules of perfection affect the ability to see and feel?
Sensory Notes: use of megaphone, not very loud
Rebeka Mondovics, Noémi Büchi: «FOLDS»
«FOLDS» explores the body as a living archive in which memory, perception and space incessantly merge. Movement appears as a fleeting trace of time, carried by a constantly breathing fabric of embodied experience. In collaboration with the composer and sound artist Noémi Büchi, an ongoing process is created in which sound and movement together open up spaces of memory and transformation.
Vanessa Spörri: «SAMASTA»
«SAMASTA» explores interpersonal, non-physical connections. Two performers deal with the influence of different connections between people and visualise them them visible with body and language.
Dance Company ONE: «Lost In Transaction»
Somewhere between minute 17 and sanity: imagining the bureaucratic circus behind the hold music.
Sensory Notes: partially loud music

Credits

Brücki Head Office:
Philip Neuberger, Tina Mantel, Laura Serra, Liliane Koch
Scenerat:
Lilli Unger, Irène Antonlin, Mariane Justen, Maja Renn, Dominique Enz
Board:
Aline Gia Perino, Matthias Kreinz, Manuela Runge, Dominique Enz, Viccy Link, Gina Müller, Eva Maria Küpfer
Technical direction performance window:
Matthias Valance

Supported by

The 2025 performance windows are supported by: Culture City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Migros Cultural Percentage, Elisabeth Weber Foundation, Ernst Göhner Foundation

Simon Huggler: «Drumance»

NIKE SHENTO & Performers: «nina/traumatize me harder»

Neil Höhener, Nadika Mohn: «The In Between»

DAS FLAMMENDE FAGOTT: «I came for you»

ILA - Institut für Lesbische Angelegenheiten: «Wir trafen uns in einem Sommer»

Inbar Elkayam: Hetz/ ץח

Manning Dong, Aleksandra Stoliarova: «Kreis 1 (in Arbeit)»

Dance Company ONE: «Lost In Transaction»

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«2 years of Brücki 235 - A short piece festival»

Thu 19/06 19:00 – 21:30

Fri 20/06 19:00 – 22:30

Sat 21/06 19:00 – 22:30

Sun 22/06 18:00 – 20:30

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