Premiere of RUSH(ES) - Alexandra Bachzetsis

In her new solo performance Rush(es), Alexandra Bachzetsis situates the Self within autofiction, autoeroticism and autodocumentation. Envisioned as an introspective journey, the performance challenges taboos of behavior and explores the commodified nature of desire as it is both constructed and deconstructed by the dancing body.

Rush(es) is characterised by rapid transformations that push the body to its limits, reflecting pleasure, joy, solitude, anxiety through the intense physicality of the performer. In the process of corporeal metamorphosis, Bachzetsis navigates her body so that it ceases to be human and morphs into something else – an animal, an object, a tool.

In this solo performance, the audience is invited to perceive, examine and experience these physical transformations as a reflection of the collective consciousness. Rush(es) thus aims to evoke intuitive, immediate responses to music, space, text, and the actions of the body, taking both performer and audience into a heightened state of awareness and transformation.