SQUEEZE
SQUEEZE invites you to experience different dimensions of massage therapy. This ancient healing method is here lifted out of the treatment room and translated into a social choreography.
Driven by haptic desire and curiosity in anatomy, five performers knead, press, shake and stretch body tissues, thick textiles, and in-between spaces. From these actions, sculptural constellations emerge and dissolve, imbued with pleasure-pain and tension-relief.
Before entering, the audience members are given a “touch-consent sticker” that they can take on and off at anytime if they want/don’t want to be touched by the performers.
Duration: 60 min + voluntary post-performance 15 min massage workshop.
Everyone is welcome to stay in the room, relax, chat, and practice massage after the performance.
>>Link to Tyra reflecting on two reference works to SQUEEZE: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong & Squeeze by Mika Rottenberg<<
PREMIERE
9, 10, 11, 12.2023 Kunsthaus Baselland / Roxy Birsfelden
TOUR
18, 19.11.2023
depARTures / ACCESS TO DANCE
Joint Adventures, Münich (DE)
2 - 3.12.2023
Les Urbaines, Lausanne (CH)
17 - 18.08.2024
Festival far°, Nyon (CH)
8 - 9.11.2024
MDT Stockholm (SE)
15 - 16.5.2026
Fachwerk Allschwil (CH)
“The chemistry and dynamics between the performers are ultimately what make this piece something to remember in the moment. They’re instant strangers but here you are responding with an empathetic chord to the countenance they display with each other, whether you expected to be touched or not.”
- Ashik Zaman, C-print Journal
Credits:
Concept, choreography: Tyra Wigg
Performance, development: Simon Fleury, Tejus Menon, Natascha Moschini, Yixuan Xiao, Tyra Wigg/Marie Popall
Sound design, live DJ: Nya Buerki aka Graue Kreide
Costume, scenography: Ernestyna Orlowska, Carolina Misztela, Tyra Wigg
Dramaturgical support: Johanna Hilari, Sonja Jokiniemi
Choreographic development: Mariana My Suikkanen Gomes
Music development: Thy Truong, Nya Bürki, Tyra Wigg
Production: Bernhard la Dous, produktionsDOCK
Touring: produktionsDOCK & Moin Moin Productions
Co-production: ROXY Birsfelden, MDT Stockholm
PREMIO award for emerging artists in performing arts
Supported by: The committee for Dance and Theatre Basel-Stadt/Baselland, BLKB Jubiläumsstiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Jaqueline Spengler Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Pro Helvetia
Created in residencies at ROXY Birsfelden, Dampfzentrale, MDT, Arsenic, Tanzhaus Zürich and Kaserne Basel
A project supported by Danse & Dramaturgie (D&D CH), an initiative by Théâtre Sévelin 36 Lausanne, in association with Dampfzentrale Bern, ROXY Birsfelden, Südpol Luzern, Tanzhaus Zürich, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine Genève; funded by Pro Helvetia and SSA Société Suisse des Auteurs
Photos by Karin Salathé
Review 2023
Review 2024