Teresa Vittucci is a Vienna born artist who is based in Zurich since 2015. Her practice is rooted in the field contemporary dance performance and investigates feminist and queer perspectives on pop culture, history, and religion. Subversive jokes are always part of the process, humour being an essential aspect of her work. Besides her extensive solo work, she also collaborates with other artists including Colin Self, Marilú Mapengo Namoda, Annina Machaz, Simone Aughterlony, Nils A. Lange, Michael Turinsky and Claire V. Sobottke, Melanie Jame Wolf and Theater HORA.
Teresa was awarded the recognition prize by the City of Zurich for her work as an outstanding performer 2018 and the Swiss Dance Prize for the first part of her trilogy HATE ME, TENDER in 2019. In 2022 she created RIDE on invitation by Centre Pompidou and Leopoldine Turbat as a response to the important feminist work of avantgarde artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger. SACRE! - a collaboration with Annina Machaz and Theater HORA - premiered the same year. In fall of 2023 Teresa was invited by Deutsches Theater Berlin to revisit her solo, the result HATE ME, TENDER_revisited is part of the repertoire and regularly performed in Berlin. In March 2024 Teresa will premiere the third work of her trilogy at Tanzhaus Zürich.
Show
Teresa Vittucci
Trilogy In Praise of Vulnerability: HATE ME, TENDER
For the first time, Teresa Vittucci will present her trilogy In Praise of Vulnerability in its entirety. The works HATE ME, TENDER, DOOM, and SANE SATAN will all be shown at Tanzhaus Zurich within the same week. A rare opportunity to (re)experience Vittucci’s work in one concentrated, explosive dose.
In her solo Teresa Vittucci cleverly and hilariously elaborates on one of the most crucial and defining female figures in western culture: the Virgin Mary. The Mother of God, who is culturally seen as epitome of purity and innocence, is simultaneously worshipped by church authorities, and criticised by feminist movements for the female stereotypes this figure has brought forth. The Virgin has polarized generations - not least for being a woman.
With penetrating and tender force Vittucci embarks on a crusade to unravel the queer potential of this biblical figure and deconstruct the fetishisation of virginity. Time to reinstate the matriarch Mary in her potential role as powerful heroine and ambassador of a queer feminism, armed with the weapon of her vulnerable kind heart.
HATE ME, TENDER won the Swiss Dance Prize in 2019.
See DOOM on April 9.
See SANE SATAN on April 12.
Concept and performance Teresa Vittucci
Dramaturgical and advice Benjamin Egger
Outside Eye Veza Fernandez, Rafał Pierzynski
Scenography Jasmin Wiesli, Teresa Vittucci
Production manager groundworkers / Kira Koplin
Production manager trilogy Laeticia Blättler (Moin Moin Productions)
Production OH DEAR Zürich
Diffusion Jérôme Pique
Co–production Tanzhaus Zürich, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, ImPulsTanz Wien
Special thanks to Julia Haenni, Gina Gurtner and Simone Aughterlony
Supported by Espacio do Tempo Montemor, Migros Cultural Percentage, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Ernst Göhner Foundation
First developed in the frame of PREMIO Competition for Theater and Dance
Premiere at ImPulsTanz 2019, Vienna
Photo ©Yoshiko Kusano, Lukas Beyeler
Dates / Booking
20:00 — 21:00
- Solidarity: CHF 35
- Regular: CHF 25
- Budget: CHF 15
Bühne 1
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich
- Duration: 1h
- Spoken language: English
- Wheelchair accessible
Content Notes
- Nudity
- High volume
- Flashing lights