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Zer-brech-lich-A.Schiattarella & Ensemble
Alessandro Schiattarella & Ensemble
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Balcony, Box Left, Box Right, Orchestra
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The sound of shattering glass, a balloon exploding, or wood cracking — we all know how breaking sounds. But what is the sound of something saved from breaking? Zer-Brech-Lich, created by choreographer Alessandro Schiattarella & Ensemble, explores fragility and diversity of bodies through music-dance-theatre. On stage, disabled performers Victoria Antonova, Alice Giuliani, and Laila White use dance, text, sound, objects, and original songs by Swiss artist Gina ÉTÉ to question identity. They play with sounds like trying on clothes, searching for transformation and pop moments. The work asks how embracing fragility can become a political message and open new inclusive experiences.
YEAR OF CREATION/DEVELOPMENT: 2023
Alessandro Schiattarella is a Swiss-Neapolitan choreographer, performer, and disability advocate based in Basel. After an international career as a solo dancer, he developed his own choreographic language, shaped by his lived experience with Hirayama disease and a commitment to anti-ableist aesthetics. His work explores the politics of the body, challenging normative ideals of ability and presence. Blending dance, text, sound, and spatial experimentation, his interdisciplinary pieces centre care, fragility, and interdependence as both artistic and political values. His creations are presented internationally, in theatres, site-specific locations, and festival contexts.
Since 2024, he has been artistic co-director of DISFRAME (formerly IntegrART), a Swiss network for inclusive performing arts. In this role, he works to expand accessibility and foster systemic change by supporting artists and curators engaged with disability discourse. Trained at Teatro alla Scala in Milan and Rudra Béjart Lausanne, Alessandro also holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Fine Arts from HGK FHNW and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Dance Science from the University of Bern.
Performance and Choreography: Victoria Antonova, Alice Giuliani, Laila White
Direction, Choreography: Alessandro Schiattarella
Sound: Eugenio Fabiani
Video and Subtitles: Manuel Justo
Audio Description and Translation: Linda Wolf
Songwriting: Gina ÉTÉ
Production management and administration: Paula Alonso Gómez
Stage Design: Margarete Albinger
Costume Design: Giulia Marcotullio
Dramaturgy: Martin Mutschler
Musical Direction & Sound Design: Richard Schwennicke
Light Design: Uwe Wegner and Alessandro Schiattarella
Production and Assistant Director during creation / Voice-over: Terry Blühdorn \ Costume Assistance KE Leu Costume Intern Rebecca SteinAssistant Director Ge Lin Xchange / OutreachMatthias Brandt, Daniel Riedel Sound Vic Leon Meier, Markus Schwieger Props Stella Kuprat, Ingmar Mühlich
ACCESSIBILITY INFO FOR THE AUDIENCE: All performances take place as Relaxed Performances and include integrated live Audio Description, live Translation and subtitles in English and Greek
Duration: 70'
Tickets:€12 / 10
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