Dance First Think Later (DFTL) brings together 14 artists, duos or groups, from 12 countries, aged between 26 and 59.

Artists :
Alice Anderson (GB/FR, 1972, based in Londres)
Marco Berrettini (IT/CH, 1963, based in Genève) & Yan Li (CN, 1988, based in Grenoble)
Lara Dâmaso (CH, 1996, based in Zurich)
Manon de Boer (BE, 1966, based in Bruxelles) & Latifa Laâbissi (FR, 1964, based in Paris)
Agnès Geoffray (FR, 1973, based in Paris)
Zuzana Kakalikova (SK/CH, 1982, based in Lausanne)
Isabel Lewis (DO, 1981, based in Berlin) + coll & The Field (based in Zurich)
Adam Linder (AU, 1983, in residence in Paris)
Shahryar Nashat (CH, 1975, based in Los Angeles)
Ceylan Öztrük (TU, 1984, based in Zurich)
Samuel Pajand (CH/FR, 1977, based in Genève) avec Cosima Grand (CH, 1984, based in Zurich)
Emilie Pitoiset (FR, 1980, based in Paris)
Davide-Christelle Sanvee (TG/CH, 1993, based in Genève)
Ulla von Brandenburg (DE/FR, 1974, based in Paris)

Exposition :
Vernissage le 15.09, 18h – 21h
Ve 16.09 – Di 09.10.2022
Tuesday – Sunday 11h–18h
Exposition with :
Alice Anderson, Lara Dâmaso, Agnès Geoffray, Samuel Pajand, Emilie Pitoiset, Ulla von Brandenburg
Le Commun, free admission

Performances :
> Je 15.09, 20h / Ve 16.09, 18h
Marco Berrettini + Yan Li + performers, S’entraîner les dents
Collective dance performance as an echo to an exhibition of paintings, 50’
Le Commun, free admission

> Ve 16.09, 20h / Sa 17.09, 19h / Di 18.09, 18h
Davide-Christelle Sanvee, À notre place
Performance - installation linked to the history of the Pavillon ADC, 55’
Pavillon ADC - reservations www.pavillon-adc.ch

> Ma 20.09, 20h / Me 21.09, 20h
Samuel Pajand & Cosima Grand, Pleased to meet you
Performance music and dance in relation to Samuel Pajand’s sculpture/partition, 57 points de rencontres, 45’
Le Commun, free admission

> Je 22.09, 20 h / Ve 23.09, 20 h
Ceylan Öztrük, Orientalien
Perform by Pavillon ADC - reservations www.pavillon-adc.ch

> Je 29.09, 19h / Ve 30.09, 19h
Zuzana Kakalikova, Am I in the picture?
Solo choreography inspired by Francesca Woodman's work, 50’
Le Commun, free admission

> Sa 01.10, 19h / Di 02.10, 18h
Isabel Lewis and collaborators, Scalable Skeletal Escalator
(stage version)
experimental artwork, dance : The Field (Lucia Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Mirjam Jamuna Zweifel), Rafał Pierzyński, music : Labour
(Farahnaz Hatam et Colin Hacklander), visual arts : Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Dirk Bell, Mo Stern
Pavillon ADC - reservations www.pavillon-adc.ch

> Je 06.10 – Di 09.10, 15h – 18h / en continu
Adam Linder, Shelf Life: Barre Forever & Some Brain
Perform by Leah Katz, Adam Linder, Mickey Mahar, Brooke Stamp
Le Commun, free admission

> Je 06.10 19h
Shahryar Nashat, Parade, 38’
Manon de Boer + Latifa Laâbissi, Persona, 31’
Screening followed by a discussion with Manon de Boer, Latifa Laâbissi, Adam Linder, moderated by Olivier Kaeser
Cinémas du Grütli - reservations www.cinemas-du-grutli.ch

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DFTL is a hybrid project, an exhibition and a festival, which lies at the border of the fields of dance, performance and visual arts. It explores the movements and gestures of the human body, their issues, meanings and interpretations in different cultures, and through different prisms, sensual, conceptual, ritual, political, social, technological or gender.

Multi- and trans-disciplinarity is not an end in itself, it is an open field for perceiving and questioning the world today. Movement and gesture have specific meanings in all cultures and in many areas of society: politics, diplomacy, sport, the army, communication, social struggles, street demonstrations, advertising... Everywhere, gestures deliver messages, are scrutinised in the media and on social networks, they bring people together or they divide them. Moreover, expressions such as "diplomatic ballet", "political faux pas", "political posture", "pas de deux", "awkward gait", "crowd movement", "body language", "revolutionary gesture", "misplaced gesture", "misunderstood gesture", testify to the fact that words that are notably linked to the vocabulary of choreography are used in many other fields. The Covid-19 period was very 'choreographic', since we unlearned gestures that were natural, we learned new ones, we questioned ourselves on a daily basis about compulsory or forbidden gestures and movements. We joined the reflections that choreographers develop on the meaning of such gestures and movements, individual or collective.

The title Dance First Think Later is inspired by a passage from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. As is often the case with this master of the absurd, a sentence turns out to be more complex than its initial appearance. This title has the value of a slogan and aims to challenge and capture attention.

The project is spread over three locations. The exhibition unfolds in Le Commun and is composed of installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, videos and objects. Performances conceived for exhibition spaces are presented in Le Commun. Other live works, which require a more important infrastructure, are presented at the ADC Pavilion. An evening of films is proposed at the Cinémas du Grütli.

The artasperto.ch website contains information on the artists and works as well as the calendar of events.