Lick Life Against
the Direction
of its Fur
Premiere at Kaserne Basel (CH)
September 10-14, 2025
Tour:
far° festival Nyon (CH) August 2026
Haunted by a lost future, three performers summon dances and fashions of the dazzlingly ambivalent 1980s: an era in which former hippies embraced market liberalism, where bright colors, campy jazz dance moves, and eccentric styles dominated – and where algorithms, doomscrolling, and neofascism were already ghostly present.
Lick Life Against the Direction of Its Fur
unfolds a world full of contradictions: words and movements get caught in a feedback loop, chewed over and spat out again. Hope, fear, and nostalgia keep colliding and rubbing against each other. Creating a friction that scratches the smooth interfaces which alienate us from our gut feeling.
The stomach, the gut, and the processes of digestion are not merely metaphors but sites of real biological and political significance.”
— Elizabeth A. Wilson, Gut Feminism (2015)
Credits
Concept, choreography: Tyra Wigg
Dance, performance: Kihako Narisawa, Jessica Tamsin Alleman, Declan Whitaker
Sound: Elischa Heller
Light design, technical direction: Chiara Leonhardt
Costume: Anne-Sophie Raemy, Tyra Wigg
Stage objects: Ernestyna Orlowska, Tyra Wigg
Dramaturgy: Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez
Sound technician: Pam Meyer
Production: Paula Alonso Gomez
Pre-production & fundraising: Caroline Froelich, Moin Moin Produktion
Production assistant:
Lean Rüegg
Co-production: Kaserne Basel
Support: Fachausschuss für Darstellende Künste Basel-Stadt/Baselland, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Stiftung Landis & Gyr
Residencies: Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallée Zürich, CAMPO Gent
Tour (so far): far° Festival Nyon 2026
Sampled movements from: David Byrne, Meredith Monk, Twyla Tharp, Trisha Brown, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, Jeffrey Hornaday
Sound credits:
Image: Michelle Ettlin