Simea Cavelti

2024

ALÉA
Initially ALÉA premièred at Théâtre Sévelin 36 in Lausanne in 2021 together with the choreographer and dancer Tommy Cattin. For the selection of the RESO Tanzfaktor Tour 2024, Simea further developed the work and explored its structure with two different performers namely Lena Schattenberg and Aly Khamees.

ALÉA maps out the poetic and physical resonance between two performers from the standpoint of water as both memory and imaginary. The piece is inspired by water as a connective, exclusionary and transformative force. The movement is raw and curious as the performers engage with the notion of fluidity both inside and outside their bodies tracing linkages to their environment on different levels of scale, whether this is in the form of particles, dew and droplets, or streams and ocean waves. Soft, rounded gestures meet hard lines, radical pauses, long gazes, sprawling and shaking bodies.

Residencies
Tanzhaus Zurich, Theater Roxy Birsfelden




Artistic Direction
Simea Cavelti 

Choreographic Concept
Simea Cavelti

Dance
Lena Schattenberg, Simea Cavelti, Aly Khamees

Music
Steve Reich, Gaspar Narby

Production
Pomegranate Seed

Co- Production
RESO, Pomegrante Seed

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