Show
Swiss Dance Days: Rapunzel
Locked into the highest chamber of the highest tower, Princess Rapunzel waits for a prince to come and save her. Impatiently, she spends her days caring for her long blond hair. Thus the classical story. In her radical stage performance Rapunzel, Mélissa Guex undermines the iconicdimension of this fairy-tale figure. In order to deconstruct the clichéof the beautiful captive waiting passively and without recourse for herprince, she moves Rapunzel into her tower’s underworld. In this version, Rapunzel is neither a young girl in distress nor a tender virgin, but a figure in a trashy punk one-woman show who emancipates herself from her static fate. With her contemporary and feminist version of Rapunzel, Mélissa Guex thus attacks normative ideas and clichés of femininity which are rooted in the collective western imagination.
Part of Swiss Dance Days 2024
Concept & choreography Mélissa Guex in collaboration with the artistic team
Performance Mélissa Guex
Music design Charlotte Vuissoz
Stage design Lucie Meyer
Light Designer Justine Bouillet
Dramaturgical accompaniment Selina Beghetto
Administration, production & diffusion Milena Pellegrini, Amandine Bula
Production Compagnie SUMO
Coproduction Théâtre Sévelin 36
Supported by
City of Lausanne, Canton de Vaud, SSA Bourse pour chorégraphe
émergent·e, Loterie Romande, PREMIO – Prix d’encouragement pour les arts
de la scène, Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Pour-cent culturel
Migros, Fondation Suisse des interprètes, Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art
Project accompanied by
Danse & Dramaturgie (D&D CH), an initiative of Théâtre Sévelin
36 Lausanne, in partnership with Dampfzentrale Bern, ROXY Birsfelden,
Südpol Luzern, Tanzhaus Zürich, TU–Théâtre de l’Usine Genève, finances
by par Pro Helvetia and SSA Société Suisse des Auteurs