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Breakthrough & Rafael Smadja

Breakthrough Festival: We met here

Five dancers arrive on unfamiliar ground – an empty space where they must first find their bearings and get to know one another.

"We don’t need meaning, but continuity."

This in-between world – a counter-world – reflects on the ping-pong game of the dancers’ thoughts and movements. They become entangled in a mischievous mirror duel – each gesture a question of perspective, each step a shifting floor. They appear lost – and yet, it is they who guide the transformation and set every scene in motion.

We met here tells of dubious hints, ego and collective will, Plato’s cave, and the untamed logic of a domino effect unfolding in a displaced world.

This performance is part of the Breakthrough Festival.
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Choreography Rafael Smadja
Performance and dance Theodor Diedenhofen, Cédric Gagneur, Elina Kim Eduardowna, Astro Scheidegger, Jamuna Mirjam Zweifel
Music Charles Amblard
Light Cristobal Rossier
Costume Mélie Gauthier
Scenography Harumi Mumenthaler, Moa Bomolo
Construction Yoann Fauvel
Production Breakthrough Festival
Photos Helen Ree

Cooperation partner Tanzhaus Zürich
Residency partners Dampfzentrale Bern, Nebia Biel

Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, SIS Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung, Kanton Zürich Kulturförderung Swisslos, Elisabeth Weber Stiftung, Dr. Adolf Streuli-Stiftung, Oertli-Stiftung

Breakthrough & Rafael Smadja

The Breakthrough Festival invites the French choreographer Rafael Smadja for this year's first full-length stage production. For We met here, Rafael Smadja has a team at his side that is coming together in this constellation for the first time. We met here is being developed in close collaboration with the dancers and the artistic team.

Rafael Smadja
After a wealth of experience as a performer and dancer in various dance and theater companies (Jann GalLois, Lene Boel, Yann Marussich, Tali Serruya, Cedric Gagneur, Stephane Fortin and many more), Rafael has founded two of his own ensembles: CieTenseï (FR) in 2015 and Cie champloO (Biel, CH) with Branca Scheidegger in 2019. Rafael Smadja works as a dancer and choreographer in both companies. In his numerous collaborations, he has developed a particular fondness for objects, installations, live music and texts. Since 2009, Rafael Smadja has organized and programmed the Step By Straight festival from 2009 to 2014 and Les Hybrides Hiphopées from 2016 to the present.

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