Located within same repurposed industrial complex as the Batiment d’Art Contemporain (BAC) in the Quartier des Bains, Le Commun is multi-purpose exhbition space. Comprising three exhibition areas, it focuses on projects within the realms of contemporary art, visual arts, and innovative digital and performative forms. All events are free and open to all.
Choreographed by Trajal Harrell, M2M reimagines a crossing of postmodern Judson Church minimalism with the exuberant voguing balls of Harlem. Conceived for three dancers, the piece fuses formal restraint and performative flamboyance, foregrounding jazz, funk and R&B inflections within an improvisational dance language. Harrell’s staging negotiates historical narrative and speculative fiction, shifting between precise postmodern phrasing and vivid gesture to evoke community, desire and the politics of movement.
Dance First Think Later brings together choreographers, performers, visual artists and videographers to investigate convergences between dance, performance and moving image. The exhibition combines installations, video works, sculptures, drawings, scores and archival materials alongside durational performances.
Through embodied gestures and staged movement, the programme examines how bodies register history, politics, migration, gender, urban space, ecology and technology. Curated by O. Kaeser, the project foregrounds relational practices that reveal and question the choreographies shaping social and spatial life.
Choreographed by Trajal Harrell and performed with the Zürich Dance Ensemble, this work for three performers merges voguing with postmodern dance. Drawing on butō and modern dance vocabularies, the piece positions the body as a vessel of memory and historical imaginaries. Harrell’s made-to-measure adaptation balances minimalist formality and stark gestures with the flamboyance and performativity of vogue, underscored by echoes of jazz, funk and R&B. The result is a layered, speculative choreography that reframes dance histories and collective memory.
Choreographed by Anan Atoyama, Atlas of Breaths probes migration and climate loss through participatory, real-time creation. Drawing on climate science, happening culture and the tea-ceremony philosophy, the work unfolds as ephemeral sculptures of bodies, objects, sound and words. Guided by Atoyama, audiences may observe or join, shaping a collective, ever-shifting piece. Collaborative contributions by Viva Sanchez, Jean-Charles François and Christophe Baert enrich the textures, producing an intimate, ritualized and exploratory atmosphere.
In French.
Choreographed and performed by Geumhyung Jeong, this conference-performance blends video projection and sound to examine the uneasy relation between the human body and surrounding objects. Jeong revisits works from Homemade RC Toy (2019) to Under Construction (2024), sharing development anecdotes and reflections on robotics, installation and puppetry. By reworking gestures originally designed to animate objects and performing them without props, she exposes the body as material, using nudity and minimal staging to evoke ritual and altered agency.
Choreographer and performer Geumhyung Jeong presents a double programme that probes the uneasy alliance between the human body and surrounding objects. Combining contemporary dance, performance, puppetry and visual art with a long-running interest in robotic sculptures, she revisits works in a conference-performance, Toy Under Development, before performing Find Select Copy and Paste. Stripping movement of its props — even appearing naked as a deliberate “costume” — Jeong reconfigures gestures to blur animate and inanimate, creating an intimate, uncanny ritual.
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