28 – 30 August

Festival de la Bâtie – Heavily Underestimated Jewels

Choreographed by Bast Hippocrate, this intimate pas de deux traces tenderness, fusion, dependence and violence in a fragile arc toward reconciliation. Following LoveLettersOrNot (2021), Hippocrate confirms an edge‑of‑skin choreographic voice. Two performers navigate a fragmented soundscape of recorded breaths and pop echoes, drifting between abandon, euphoria and vertigo. Suggesting the experience of chemsex, the piece transforms lived gay intimacy into a physical fable — burning, ambivalent and profoundly shareable.

Route des Péniches,
2, Switzerland
Photo Credit: DR
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Photo Credit: DR

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