ZER-BRECH-LICH

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.

• 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.