Description
The piece blends both Sami Bernath’s bodily memories and Swiss traditions — songs, folk rhythms, inherited gestures — notably that of the Löffelä, a traditional rhythmic practice that transforms wooden spoons into percussion instruments. Step by step, repetition, distortion and rhythmic saturation take effect. Traditional motifs become permeable.
Allowing himself to be guided by the traces of traditional practices, Sami Bernath explores their porosity, their convergence, and how they might come into conflict. &sous.les.montagnes is an exploration of forgetting, repression and the memory that lies &sous.les.montagnes – ‘beneath the Swiss mountains’.
choreography and performance: Sami Lea and Samira Bernath — assistant choreographer: Emma Saba — dramaturgy: Thulú Barbarán — sound design: Lu Läderach — co-direction and sound engineering: Lisa Brudermann — Costumes: Merel Wennekes — Set design: Antonie Oberson — Lighting design: Alessandra Domingues — External consultant: Baptiste Cazaux — Support and care: Ramona Unterberg. Executive production – Le Voisin
production : Association Flux Poreux co-production : Emergentia – temps fort pour la création chorégraphique émergente réalisé par L’Abri, le TU et le Pavillon ADC. Partners : Loterie Romande, Ernst Goehner Stiftung.