Teresa Vittucci is a Vienna born artist who is based in Zurich since 2015. Her practice is rooted in the field contemporary dance performance and investigates feminist and queer perspectives on pop culture, history, and religion. Subversive jokes are always part of the process, humour being an essential aspect of her work. Besides her extensive solo work, she also collaborates with other artists including Colin Self, Marilú Mapengo Namoda, Annina Machaz, Simone Aughterlony, Nils A. Lange, Michael Turinsky and Claire V. Sobottke, Melanie Jame Wolf and Theater HORA.
Teresa was awarded the recognition prize by the City of Zurich for her work as an outstanding performer 2018 and the Swiss Dance Prize for the first part of her trilogy HATE ME, TENDER in 2019. In 2022 she created RIDE on invitation by Centre Pompidou and Leopoldine Turbat as a response to the important feminist work of avantgarde artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger. SACRE! - a collaboration with Annina Machaz and Theater HORA - premiered the same year. In fall of 2023 Teresa was invited by Deutsches Theater Berlin to revisit her solo, the result HATE ME, TENDER_revisited is part of the repertoire and regularly performed in Berlin. In March 2024 Teresa will premiere the third work of her trilogy at Tanzhaus Zürich.
Show
Teresa Vittucci, Colin Self
Trilogy In Praise of Vulnerability: DOOM
Teresa Vittucci is presenting her trilogy In Praise of Vulnerability for the last time. All three pieces in the trilogy will be performed at Tanzhaus Zurich in the same week. This is a unique opportunity to experience Vittucci's work as a concentrated package (once again).
For DOOM, the second part of the trilogy in praise of vulnerability, Teresa Vittucci invited composer and performer Colin Self to join her in exploring the origins of femininity as described and created in Greek mythology and in the Book of Genesis of the Bible: Eve and Pandora.
The roles of Eve and Pandora, whose stories still serve as cautionary tales about the threat of female knowledge, have been crucial to the status of women – and those assigned to that gender – in all Christian-Jewish and Abrahamic societies. This piece examines the two female figures, their parallel fates, reception, narrative and impact from a critical and queer feminist perspective.
With what has become Vittucci's signature blend of peotry and humour, the two performers explore the uncertain knowledge these stories transport. Who gets hurt when female curiosity meets the patriarchal structure? And what risk does the decision to look entail?
In addition to DOOM, we are showing HATE ME, TENDER and SANE SATAN.
- 16+
Choreography, Voice, Performance Teresa Vittucci
Music, Voice, Performance Colin Self
Scenography Anna Wohlgemuth
Light Design Thomas Giger
Dramaturgical Advice Benjamin Egger
Dramaturgical advisor Tanzhaus Zürich Marc Streit
Production Management Kira Koplin / GROUNDWORKERS
Administration Karin Erdmann
Production OH DEAR! Zürich und OH DEAR productions
Coproduction Tanzhaus Zürich, Dampfzentrale Bern, Arsenic Lausanne, Théâtre St-Gervais Genève, Art Stations Foundation CH, Sophiensæle Berlin and WUK Wien
Supported by City of Zurich Culture, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Migros Cultural Percentage, Ernst Göhner Foundation and Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
Tour supported by Migros Cultural Percentage
Special Thanks to Theater Neumarkt and Muzeum Susch
Photos Byron Gago
Colin Self is an artist, composer and choreographer based in New York and Berlin. He creates music and performance pieces designed to trouble binaries and play with the boundaries of perception. Self works with a broad range of communities using voices, bodies, and computers as tools to interface with biological and technological software. Self is a teacher at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute in Berlin, and has presented work at The Dutch National Opera, HAU Berlin, The New Museum, The Kitchen NYC and Issue Project Room, among many international festivals and venues. He is a Rhizome Commission Grant recipient and a Queer Art Mentorship Fellow. He served as an Eyebeam Resident in 2016 and a resident fellow at Etopia for FUGA in Zaragoza, Spain in 2018. He is a co-founder of the NYC queer performance collective Chez Deep and The Radical Diva Grant. Self received his MFA in music and sound from Bard. Self also works closely with Holly Herndon and has performed with her touring ensemble since 2015. He runs XOIR, an international non-utilitarian vocal workshop focused on alternative modalities of group singing, and releases solo music on the record label RVNG Intl.
Dates / Booking
20:00 — 21:00
- Solidarity: CHF 35
- Regular: CHF 25
- Budget: CHF 15
Bühne 1
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
8037 Zürich
- Duration: 1h
- Spoken language: English
- Wheelchair accessible
Content Notes
- Sudden darkness
- Nudity
- High volume
- Flashing lights