Thz event All Rise1 c Fei Feng Feng

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Joseph Baan

ALL RISE

“How to untell a story that cannot be told but must be told.” – M. NourbeSe Philip

Working with the vector of the trial, a ritual in the legal system whose aim for “justice” often warrants its own violences, the work interrogates modalities of sovereignty under law. Juridical insistence on legibility and coherence—on performing plausibility—undercuts the fact that trauma is often incoherent.

Deploying the mise-en-scene of the courtroom in relation to that of theatre, ALL RISE performs the trial as a space of waiting in which conviction, coherence, and sense-making are perpetually delayed. The trial becomes a no-show; the roles of witness, judge, and advocate shared amongst both audience and performers.

Concept, direction Joseph Baan
Performance Joseph Baan, Luc Häfliger, bela, Sam Taskinen
Dramaturgy Simone Aughterlony, Felipe Ribeiro, Simon Froehling
Music and composition Luc Häfliger, bela
Scenography Dominik Dober
Costumes Marcus Karkhof
Light Joseph Wegmann
Production Romeo Oliveras

Co-production Tanzhaus Zürich
Dramaturgical support Tanzhaus Zürich Simon Froehling
Critical Friend Tanzhaus Zürich Manuel Gerst

Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Albert Huber-Stiftung

Joseph Baan

Joseph Baan is an artist and educator. Their practice engages in art, education and collaboration as ways to forge creative survival. They’re interested in the complexity of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing a solidarity that does not homogenise, but affirms difference. They make performances, installations, texts, group works, collaborative formats, and scores that aim to unpack the problem of relating, shifting roles and readings of power and control in relation to affect and reciprocity.
 

Dates / Booking
Wednesday, 29.04.2026
Clock 20:00 — 21:15
  • Solidarity: CHF 35
  • Regular: CHF 25
  • Budget: CHF 15

Bühne 1
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich

  • Duration: 1h 15m
  • English
  • Wheelchair accessible
Thursday, 30.04.2026
Clock 20:00 — 21:15
  • Solidarity: CHF 35
  • Regular: CHF 25
  • Budget: CHF 15

Bühne 1
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich

  • Duration: 1h 15m
  • English
  • Wheelchair accessible
Saturday, 02.05.2026
Clock 20:00 — 21:15
  • Solidarity: CHF 35
  • Regular: CHF 25
  • Budget: CHF 15

Bühne 1
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich

  • Duration: 1h 15m
  • English
  • Wheelchair accessible