In a space transformed by shifting boundaries, the 16 dancers endlessly transform and infect gestures and movements that they pass on through the group in a continuous process of repetition, imitation, adaptation, and modification. Through the coming and going of movement, there are echoes of daily life; of sport and movement; of social interaction; of grotesque, delirious, disturbed, and fantastic bodies. The dancers ceaselessly adopt and deform the movements of others, transferring energy between them as the materials they develop are explored, reflected, and rendered with new nuances and interpretations. “Go With Your Heart” is a dynamic, contemporary piece that treads a unique path through the territory between art, performance, and choreography—a work in the interstices of art, choreography, and artistic action.
Stage icon Tim Etchells and artist Vlatka Horvat are creating their first joint choreographic work exclusively for Ballett Basel. Etchells is best known as the artistic director of the English performance group Forced Entertainment, one of the U.K.’s most respected theater groups. His artistic fascination is with the rules and systems in our culture, which he examines in a playful and captivating way. Horvat, who most recently presented her work in the Croatian pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale with the overarching theme “Foreigners Everywhere,” explores in her work the spatial and social relationships between bodies, objects, and the created environment.
Tickets are CHF 30-115 for adults and CHF 20 for youths and students.

Website
theater-basel.ch/en/gowithyourheart

Where
Theater Basel
Theaterstrasse 7
4051 Basel

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