Tyra Wigg
SQUEEZE
Photo: Karin Salathé
Fr 8.11.2024, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Sa 9.11.2024, 18:00-19:00, MDT
SQUEEZE offers a terrain to contemplate and experience different dimensions of massage therapy.
This ancient healing method is here lifted out of the treatment room and translated into a social choreography in the performance space. Driven by haptic desire and anatomical curiosity, five performers knead, press, shake and stretch each other's body tissues. Even thick textiles and empty spaces are carefully treated. From these actions, sculptural constellations emerge and dissolve, imbued with pleasure-pain and tension-relief. Alternating sounds of electronic music and open landscapes suggest that massage can and should spill over into other spheres of daily life.
Audience members who express their consent can be touched by the performers. Everyone is welcome to stay in the room, relax and practice massage after the performance.
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Tyra Wigg
Tyra Wigg (they/them) is a choreographer, performer and massage therapist from Stockholm, Sweden, living in Basel, Switzerland since 2020. They are interested in how artistic practices can expand cultural and personal perceptions of the body.
Tyra's work has been presented at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, ROXY Birsfelden, Les Urbaines, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthaus Baselland, Weld Stockholm, BONE festival Bern, festival far°, Shedhalle Zürich, depARTures München, YUP Osnabrück, Black Forest Institute of Art, and SITE.
Tyra has worked as a dancer and performer for Gisèle Vienne, Heiner Goebbels, Shu Lea Cheang, Inga Gerner Nielsen, Ernestyna Orlowska, Pontus Petterson, Marina Abramovic, Alexandra Pirici, Marie Fahlin, Virpi Pahkinen, and others.
Tyra holds an MA in Expanded Theatre from the Bern University of the Arts, HKB. Since 2022 they are a driving member in the nomadic queer feminist reading collective Blasphemic Reading Soirees. 2023-24 they are "LAB-artist in residence” at Kaserne Basel. 2021 Tyra participated in DanceWeb at Impulstanz with Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies as mentors.
www.tyrawigg.com
Development, performance
,concept and choreography by Tyra Wigg.
Development, performance
Sound design, live DJ
Costume, scenography
Ernestyna Orlowska, Carolina Misztela, Tyra Wigg.
Dramaturgical support
Johanna Hilari, Sonja Jokiniemi
Choreographic development
Musical research
Production
ProduktionsDOCK / Tour: Caroline Froelich (Moin Moin Productions).
Co-production
ROXY Birsfelden, MDT Stockholm, PREMIO award for emerging artists in performing arts.
Supported by
The Committee for Performing Arts Basel-Stadt/Baselland, Pro Helvetia, BLKB Jubiläumsstiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Jaqueline Spengler Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung.
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.
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