Valerie Reding
Valerie Reding is a Zurich-based choreographer and interdisciplinary artist whose emotionally resonant and visually intriguing work dissolves boundaries between movement, poetry and the political, between the institutional and the underground. Their work explores how societal power structures configure identity and relationality - how they become inscribed in our bodies and shape how we relate to ourselves and each other. Drawing from personal and collective trauma, Reding is committed to creating spaces for marginalised narratives and crafts sensorially rich environments that invite audiences into spaces of generative togetherness. Their performances unfold as radical acts of vulnerability and resistance, where identities are fluid and the body becomes a site of protest and collective transformation.
Their practice is distinguished by its strong poetic visual language, emotional rawness and transdisciplinary layering, merging embodiment with image and text. Through this, Reding seeks to open up alternative modes of feeling, perceiving and being together - beyond the limiting systems society imposes.
They studied classical dance in Luxembourg, architecture at ETH Zürich and media arts at ZHdK (Zurich), the University of Applied Arts Vienna and in San Francisco. As an associated artist at Tanzhaus Zürich, they have developed a nationally and internationally recognized body of work, awarded the SSA Young Choreographers’ Prize and the City of Zurich Cultural Prize.
Genosidra
Carlos Quebrada aka Genosidra is a Colombian music producer, bass player, performer, composer, DJ, and curator based in Barcelona. His musical journey encompasses various formats and genres. As a composer and performer, he explores a wide range of musical expressions, writing for solo instruments, electronics, unconventional chamber ensembles, and noise rock/jazz groups. He also creates music for films and performances.
As a performer, he often takes the stage solo, utilizing his voice and bass, which he processes with electronics. Additionally, he is the bass player for the experimental punk rock band Blanco Teta. Under the alias Genosidra, he delves into an experimental electronic aesthetic, blending it with Latinx dance music and transdisciplinary performance.
With extensive research in contemporary experimental electronic music and noise, his musical productions, live performances, and DJ sets explore noise within the context of dance music (Latinx club, hyperpop, footwork) through textures and non-linear composition.
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.
William 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.
