INFO
Year of creation: premiered in 2018,
remade in 2019
Length: total visit approx. 1 hour
Project type: interactive, outdoor tour of Zurich’s old town with five dancers
Direction: Andrea Boll & Eleonora Zweifel
Project choreography/direction: Andrea Boll, in collaboration with the dancers
Presented at: Zürich Tanzt festival in 2018 and 2019, First Friday in the old town of Biel in 2018
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Contemporary dance choreographer Andrea Boll has produced four DownTown Tours as part of the Zurich Tanzt festival.
Here, she invites five dancers from the TeKi TeKua dance company to immerse themselves into the old town of Zurich, showing how women give meaning to the world through dance and how individuals live both inside and outside of this world.
No corner is missed, every square and every alleyway are explored. Frank, exuberant, and with troubling sensuality, fierce charm, and unbridled femininity, the dancers examine the town in minute detail, along with the participants, in search of the most ephemeral nook and cranny, creating a sensation of freedom yet belonging.
For those who wish to discover Zurich with their body, in a context that is both different and absurd.
Itinerary
The tour begins at the Kulturhaus Helferei, near the Grossmünster. We then climb towards the Obere Zäune. After a brief interlude on a play area and in a bookshop, we head in the direction of the Spiegelgasse, before losing ourselves in the old town of Zurich. The tour ends at the Rathausbrücke.
The DownTown Tour is interactive. No dance experience is required, but participants must enjoy movement and surprises!