Valerie Reding
Valerie Reding is a performer, choreographer and transdisciplinary artist based in Zurich.
After their training in ballet and modern dance in Luxembourg, they studied Architecture
and Media Arts in Zurich, Vienna and San Francisco, worked internationally as a makeup artist in fashion and created their drag alter-ego VulVenim
- a seductive and poisonous shapeshifter. Today, they combine all these experiences in their eclectic artistic practice combining movement, performance, photography, video, text and installation. They are also the creative director of WET DREAMZ - a queer-feminist party with various artistic interventions to empower all bodies and identities.
Intrigued by the complex entanglements of the body, human psychology, interpersonal relationships and the power relations that permeate our societies and identities, Valerie explores the potential of vulnerability, auto-fiction, togetherness, transformation and camp to work on questions around subjectivity and relationality with an intersectional approach.
Bast Hippocrate
Bast Hippocrate is a queer Afro-descendant artist born in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Initially self-taught, he graduated from La Manufacture in 2019. His work blends autofiction, physicality, and vulnerability, using the intimate to connect with the collective, bridging micro and macro narratives. He collaborates with artists such as Géraldine Chollet, Simone Aughterlony, and Valerie Reding, engaging in sensitive, performative, and political processes.
Wiliam Cardoso
William Cardoso is a choreographer and performer working between Luxembourg and Portugal. Known for a raw, unpredictable and committed style, his work tackles intimate yet universal themes, challenging patriarchal and heteronormative structures with urgency and rage.
Exploring the friction between body and mind through a deliberately non-fluid, abrasive movement language, William creates physical dialogues that question how the body can be a site of struggle, resistance, and storytelling.
As a performer, he has collaborated with Clara Villalba, Olivier Dubois, Florence Peake, Eve Stainton, Jill Crovisier, Giovanni Zazzera, Léa Tirabasso, Fabian Thomé Duten, and collaboration with Andreas Constantinou. He has also worked with Valerie Reding on the politically engaged project Monsters.
