Takeyourbodyforawalk The Field Open Futures

Walk, Talk

The Field

Im Rahmen von Open Futures: Take your body for a walk

Following on from their encounter with the choreographer Meg Stuart this summer, The Field will continue developing their research into water and the water cycle. Focusing on, amongst other things, the chemical composition of Zürich’s water, the playful and life giving interactions Zürich residents have with it and the geographical pathwaysthe rivers Sihl and Limmat carve through Switzerland – The Field will dive in to a research which embodies the ebbs and flows of the water around them, aiming to understand how it shapes and choreographs our societal relations.

In the frame of the Open Futures research conversations, The Field invites the guests to go on a walk through the neighborhood around Tanzhaus Zürich and specifically explore the riverbanks of the nearby Limmat and Sihl. Take Your Body For a Walk is an interactive format which aims to build a collective experience and an online community for the duration of a walk. Inputs are sent via chat messages, inviting participants to take part in a sensorial adventure. In a time when individual and collective well-being are compromised, Take Your Body For a Walk provides a means to reconnect with our own body, our surroundings and our fellow humans. While being gently guided, the participants design their walk following their curiosity.

The walk will be followed by a research talk with Lucia Gugerli, member of The Field, Monica Jäger, visual artist participating in the exhibition Kollektive Resonanz at the Shedhalle, and Raphael Portmann, climate researcher, on the topic of water, as an essential dimension of the Earth system.

  • Tanzhaus Zürich
    Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
    8037 Zürich
  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Walk in English

  • Meeting point: 17:20h at Tanzhaus terrasse /elevator-tower, Wasserwerkstrasse 127A
    Wear your most comfortable shoes, bring a warm jacket, clothes appropriate for the weather and a bottle of water.
    Bring headphones and a charged mobile phone.

    The Walk will take place via the application Telegram.
    You can join (even anonymously) at the following link:
    Join Chat

  • This event is free of charge

Open Futures

Main partners Shedhalle, Gessnerallee, Tanzhaus & The Field, ETH Newrope
Project partners L200, Transition-Zürich, Urban Equipe, p2panda

Support Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Bildende Künste, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Pro Helvetia, Cassinelli-Vogel-Stiftung, Fondation Paul-Edouard Piguet, Ville de Lausanne, Erna und Curt Burgauer Stiftung, Canton de Vaud, Stadt Zürich – Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschutz, SüdKulturFonds

Production & communication management Camille Jamet
Programming & dramaturgical advice Moritz Sauer
Program management & overall direction Isabelle Vuong

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The Field

The Field is a collective of dance artists who have been working together since 2019. The collective has collaborated with local and international artists to create a range of works from large scale performances to intimate artistic exchanges. So far, The Field has developed works with Meg Stuart (Waterworks), Isabel Lewis (Scalable Skeletal Escalator), Simone Aughterlony (The Best and the Worst of Us) and is currently developing a piece with Ofelia Jarl Ortega.

The collective came into being from the necessity to create flexible, versatile, sensitive and enduring forms of togetherness, to find ways of articulating our cultural, social and political concerns through dance experiences. Their commitment to non-hierarchical forms of working shapes all of The Field’s artistic outputs.