Fach­werk | Ty­ra Wigg - Squeeze

SQUEEZE offers a terrain to experience and contemplate different dimensions of massage therapy. This ancient healing method is here lifted out of the treatment rooms and private spheres and developed into a social choreography in the performance space. In an increasingly disembodied and anxious society, SQUEEZE reclaims caring touch as a mode of collectivity and healing that can be practised everywhere. By translating massage therapy to dance for a spectator, SQUEEZE also gives rise to new aesthetic experiences in the borderland between form and haptics.

EVENT INFO
- The performance ends with a short workshop where the performers invite the audience to try a choreographic massage practise from the piece
- Before entering the performance space, each audience members are given a “touch consent sticker” which can be taken on at any time that you want to be touched, or taken off when you don’t want to be touched by the performers
- You are allowed to exit and re-enter the space
- The music can be loud and bass strong. Earplugs will be provided
- The event hall is not wheelchair accessible

CREDITS
Concept, choreography: Tyra Wigg
Development, performance: Simon Fleury, Tejus Menon,
Natascha Moschini, Yixuan Xiao, Tyra Wigg/Marie Popall
Sound design, live DJ, technical director: Nya Buerki aka Graue Kreide
Costume, scenography: Ernestyna Orlowska, Carolina Misztela, Tyra Wigg
Dramaturgical support: Sonja Jokiniemi, Johanna Hilari
Production: ProduktionsDOCK
Touring: Caroline Froelich, Moin Moin Productions
Co-production: ROXY Birsfelden, MDT Stockholm
PREMIO award for emerging artists in performing arts

Financial support: The committee for Dance and Theatre Basel-Stadt/Baselland, Pro Helvetia, BLKB Jubiläumsstiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Jaqueline Spengler Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Danse & Dramaturgie (D&D CH)