The choreographer, theater director, stage designer and performer Martin Zimmermann (b. 1970), grew up in the small Swiss village of Wildberg and, after an apprenticeship as a set designer, graduated from the Centre National des Arts du Cirque (CNAC) in Paris. For more than 25 years, he has been inventing, choreographing and staging visual and physical theater without words, whose mixture of contemporary circus, dance, theater and spectacular stage installations inspires a large audience. Making art accessible to all and campaigning for more inclusion and diversity are issues that are particularly close to his heart. For his plays, he creates bizarre and strange worlds in which everyday objects are shifted into parallel, often absurd worlds. He breaks with convention, reveals the invisible, makes the improbable appear true and encourages the audience to think in new ways. The core of his work is the dialogue between the human body and objects with a life of their own, which allows them to meet and interact with each other in unstable and threatening environments. The human being in all its complexity is at the center of his interest. In 2021, Martin Zimmermann received the highest Swiss theater award, the prestigious Grand Prix Darstellende Künste / Hans-Reinhart-Ring 2021.
Bizarre figures
Martin Zimmermann
The workshop is about the mystical creation of absurd figures. The participants create a bizarre silhouette and learn to improvise in and with it. After a collective warm-up, a studio is built with old clothes, scotch, paper, cardboard and various materials and a personal disguise is created for each individual person, which is intended to reflect the inside of the person wearing it - the feelings are peeled out, the inside is turned inside out, only to be visually revealed again. Conventions are thrown overboard, regularities are questioned and the invisible is revealed. Using humor, the improbable becomes true and the impossible becomes possible.
The workshop also includes making a costume for the creation of an individual, bizarre character.
Participants are asked to bring old clothes, hats, caps, gloves, wigs, broken shoes, fabrics, craft materials such as cardboard, etc. It is important that these items have some meaning for you, but they may be processed, cut up, and torn during the workshop.
- Bühne 2
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
8037 Zürich - Wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
- English, German, French
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- Open level – the workshop is open to movers of any kind
- Participation is mandatory on both days
- The daily program includes a one-hour lunch break.
- It is recommended that you wear comfortable clothing that allows you to move freely.
10:00 — 17:00
10:00 — 17:00
Foto Nelly Rodriguez