Theater

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  This year, Breakthrough will once again be a guest at Tanzhaus Zürich, this time with it’s own full evening theatre production We met here. It features a choreographic work by Rafael Smadja, created especially for the Breakthrough Festival and interweaves breaking, popping and various street styles within a stage context.

  
  
  We met here

  4th and 5th September / 8:00pm
  Location: Tanzhaus Zürich, Bühne 1

  We met here is a dance production in which five dancers end up in unknown territory, an empty space in which they first have to find their way around and get to know each other. The underlying theme is perspectives. What view do we have of a certain situation? How does this differ from another point of view? The play manages to show abstract and poetic images in a very playful way and is stylistically of a high standard. An impressive young cast with incredible body control, humor and creativity, captivates with a dynamic and virtuoso movement language.
  
  For an audience (12+).

  

  Photos: Helen Ree

  Choreography: Rafael Smadja
  Dance: Theodor Diedenhofen, Cédric Gagneur, Elina Kim Eduardowna, Astro Scheidegger, Jamuna Mirjam Zweifel
  Music: Charles Amblard
  Light: Cristobal Rossier
  Costumes: Mélie Gauthier
  Stage design: Harumi Mumenthaler, Moa Bomolo
  Construction: Yoann Fauvel
  Production: Breakthrough Festival
  Photos: Helen Ree
  
  Cooperation partner : Tanzhaus Zürich
  Residency partners: Dampfzentrale Bern, Nebia Biel
  
  Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, SIS Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung, Kanton Zürich Kulturförderung Swisslos, Elisabeth Weber Stiftung, Dr. Adolf Streuli-Stiftung
  
  Duration: 60 Min
  Price: 35.- / 25.- / 15.-
  Ticket Pre-Sale: here
  We recommend advance booking, seats are limited!
  
  If you can't be there in person there is the possibility to see the performance of Friday 5th September 2025 on livestream. Price CHF 15.-.

  
  
  Short Pieces

  6th September 2025 / 5:15pm – 5:45pm
  Location: Dynamo Zürich, Artroom
  
  7th September 2025 / 2:45pm – 3:30pm
  Location: Dynamo Zürich, Artroom

  
  
  

  Young up-and-coming talents present their stage plays. Shortpieces shows various short pieces that all fit into our festival theme of perspectives in their own way and gives visitors to the Battles a little insight into the world of stage dance during the breaks.
  
  puBLICKum / reinterpretation by Branca Scheidegger

  

  Photo: Helen Ree

  In a theater, different personalities and emotionalities come together in one space and, depending on the type of performance, the visitors* are also conspicuous in their behavior according to the culture. The cultivated audience in a ballet, in elegant clothing, quiet and attentive is juxtaposed with a younger and loud audience in a hip-hop performance and in between there are the visitors of a contemporary performance who are particularly looking for and want to understand the intellectual content. With their attention always focused on an imaginary dance piece, the protagonists embody the moods of different audience genres and enable the audience to recognize themselves in these situations.
  
  Choreography: reinterpretation by Branca Scheidegger
  Original choreography: Olivia Hernandez Candelas
  Dance: Hyosung Joo, Chantal Brügger, Sophie Meyer, Robin Waldburger
  

  
  
  

  Mécanismes / Yury Sory & Michael Scott (Cie Art Sans Nom)

  

  Photo: @cedricsintesphotography

  The idea of the cycle is omnipresent and determines everything we know. It connects everything, every being, and is unique to each of its subjects. When several elements come together, their cycles intertwine, synchronize or come into conflict, creating a mechanism that can open up an infinite number of new possibilities. Mécanismes captivates with its hypnotizing choreography, which seems to stretch into infinity and constantly reveals new perspectives of repetitive movements.
  
  Choreography: Benjamin Sanou & Yuri Sory
  Dance: Yuri Sory & Michael Scott
  

  
  
  

  SXL / Sandra Zurfluh

  

  In the dance piece “SXL”, different body sizes come together, struggle with the everyday hurdles of being small, look for ways to grow taller and turn the laws of physics on their head. Using visual language and urban movement material, four dancers get to the bottom of the subject of being small. Big feels small and small suddenly becomes big?
  
  Choreography: Sandra Zurfluh
  Dance: Sandra Zurfluh, Andrea Biel, Estefania Mediavilla, Gaetano Sibilia