spooning & entre.les.montagnes
A queer deconstruction of Swiss tradition: Sami Lea Samira Bernath reclaims the « Löffelä » to explore memory, repression, and intergenerational knowledge.
- 13 March 2026 Gessnerallee — Zürich, CH
- 6 May 2026 Aua wir leben Festival — Bern, CH
- 8 May 2026 Theater am Gleis — Winterthur, CH
- 30 August 2026 Le Pommier — Neuchâtel, CH
- 6–7 November 2026 Gender Bender Festival — Bologna, IT
spooning & entre.les.montagnes is a piece about forgetting, repression, and the potential of memory. Sami Lea Samira Bernath takes hold of the « Löffelä » — an instrument used to accompany traditional Swiss music — and removes it from its original context. She sets out in search of permeability and openness from a queer perspective. By deconstructing this Helvetic tradition, she explores how intergenerational knowledge can nourish society and how exclusion can be broken through reinterpretation. A play of traces, vibrations, and dissonances moves through the body and space to create a rhythm for everyone.
Bio
Sami, born and raised in Bern, is a dancer, choreographer and part of the dance collective hearhere. She received her foundational training as a dancer at the CFPAA in Geneva and earned a degree in contemporary dance from La Manufacture in Lausanne in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023 she deepened her practice as part of her bachelor's degree in Process Design at the HGK in Basel, where she explored research around porous traditions. She presented the first stage of this research in her solo zwüschä dä hüglä & between the hills at the Dampfzentrale in Bern in 2023. This was followed in 2024 by spooning & entre.les.montagnes at the Quarts d'heures in Sévelin, subsequently performed in various venues across Switzerland. In 2025, with the collective hearhere, they presented their first piece at the Tanzhaus Bern. Over the past years Sami has also co-founded the queerfeminist music label Forcefield Records and danced with Cie Folledeparoles, Cie PAYAN (Paléo Festival 2022), and with Anne Lise Tacheron in Safety Station.
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