Last night we premiered ‘Go With Your Heart,’ a new piece by Tim Etchells and me, commissioned by Adolphe Binder for Basel Ballet and created in collaboration with sixteen ensemble members and guests. Over the past few months, we had a great pleasure to work with this extraordinary group of dancers to develop the piece, using frameworks for action which guide, shape, and sometimes restrict the dancers’ improvisation.
We are hugely proud of this work and looking forward to the next 15 performances, each different in its particular articulation of the structure and the dramaturgy, running on the Grosse Buhne of Theater Basel until 21 June.
Thank you to Adolphe Binder and Tilman O’Donnell for their enormous trust and support, and for opening the Basel Ballet program to artists coming in from other art forms and ways of working. Thank you to our team for the amazing collaboration and hard work – our costume designer Laura Hopkins, lighting designer Nigel Edwards, rehearsal director Jonathan Fredrickson, and all the dance artists and guests of the Basel Ballet who have plunged into this process with us with an openness, enthusiasm, and up-for-it-ness every step of the way. It’s been a great joy watching this incredible ensemble take on the instructions and parameters we have given them, continually surprising and delighting us with their particular ways of inhabiting and giving form to our propositions.
More info and tickets: https://www.theater-basel.ch/en/gowithyourheart
‘Go With Your Heart’
CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION Tim Etchells, Vlatka Horvat
STAGE Tim Etchells, Vlatka Horvat
COSTUMES Laura Hopkins
LIGHTS Nigel Edwards
MUSIC & COMPOSITION Tim Etchells
DEVELOPED WITH AND PERFORMED BY
Yaëlle Chassin, Amy Josh, David Lagerqvist, Dario Minoia, Stefanie Pechtl, Jan Chris Pollert, Anthony Ramiandrisoa, Javier Ara Sauco, Alma Toaspern, Giulia Torri, Thalia Tulkens, Sophie Flannery Prune Vergéres, Jin Young Won, Cheng-An Wu, Ophelia Young, Max Zachrisson
Photo: Ingo Hoehn
More photos and info in the Projects section soon!