TO BE REAL

Together with Roberta Racis and Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Alexandra Bachzetsis performs three bodies in enhanced reality. TO BE REAL is both a live film and a live performance, exploring what it means to be “real” in a world where we constantly encounter ourselves through images. The audience is invited to an intimate and at times unexpectedly playful evening, in which authenticity and memory are constructed, shared and performed through media, and where the uncanny emerges when the familiar begins to feel strange, or when the real and the artificial become difficult to distinguish.

Language: English
Duration: 75 min

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CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY: Alexandra Bachzetsis
TEXT: Alexandra Bachzetsis
DRAMATURGY: Dorota Sajewska
PERFORMANCE: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Roberta Racis, Owen Ridley-DeMonick
MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN: Alban Schelbert
MOVEMENT DIRECTION: Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska
SET DESIGN: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Ivan Wahren
LIGHT DESIGN: Ivan Wahren
COSTUME: Laurent Hermann Progin with Ulla Ludwig
HAIR / MAKE UP: Stephanie Kunz
VIDEO: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Melanie Hofmann, Ivan Wahren
VIDEO EDITING: Ivan Wahren
PHOTOGRAPHY: Melanie Hofmann
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Patrik Rimann
CURATORIAL TEXT: Dorota Sajewska
STUDIO AND RESEARCH: Jean-Marie Fahy
PRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT: Christina Liata
TOUR MANAGEMENT AND FUNDRAISING: Jean-Marie Fahy, Christina Liata
ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT: Schranz Consulting

COPRODUCED BY: Arsenic, Lausanne; Dampfzentrale, Bern; Kaserne Basel; Shedhalle, Zurich
SUPPORTED BY: Kanton Zürich; Stadt Zürich; the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Grateful for the generous support and contribution from the Circle of Friends

THANKS TO: Laura Amann Marín, Karma International, jen kratochvil, Miguel Ledesma, Andy Lindenmann, Nina Schranz, Shedhalle, Angela Tomas, Giulia Walter, Noémie Weill