Teresa Vittucci is a Vienna born artist who is based in Zurich since 2015. Her practice is rooted in the field contemporary dance performance and investigates feminist and queer perspectives on pop culture, history, and religion. Subversive jokes are always part of the process, humour being an essential aspect of her work. Besides her extensive solo work, she also collaborates with other artists including Colin Self, Marilú Mapengo Namoda, Annina Machaz, Simone Aughterlony, Nils A. Lange, Michael Turinsky and Claire V. Sobottke, Melanie Jame Wolf and Theater HORA.
Teresa was awarded the recognition prize by the City of Zurich for her work as an outstanding performer 2018 and the Swiss Dance Prize for the first part of her trilogy HATE ME, TENDER in 2019. In 2022 she created RIDE on invitation by Centre Pompidou and Leopoldine Turbat as a response to the important feminist work of avantgarde artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger. SACRE! - a collaboration with Annina Machaz and Theater HORA - premiered the same year. In fall of 2023 Teresa was invited by Deutsches Theater Berlin to revisit her solo, the result HATE ME, TENDER_revisited is part of the repertoire and regularly performed in Berlin. In March 2024 Teresa will premiere the third work of her trilogy at Tanzhaus Zürich.
Teresa Vittucci
SACRE!
So who should be sacrificed? And above all: who shouldn't?
With SACRE! Theater HORA interprets one of the most famous and scandalous works of ballet history: Le sacre du printemps (The Right of Spring), composed by Igor Stravinsky and first staged in 1913.
In this new version, directed by Teresa Vittucci and Annina Machaz, the HORA ensemble takes the original plot and re-interprets it with a humorous twist. The story about the sacrifice of a young woman who dramatically dances herself to death gets shaken up quite a bit. Robot or goddess of spring? Peer pressure or ritual? And when does a finger become a deadly claw? We are taken on a trip and surrender ourselves in rapture. In their self-designed costumes, the performers transform as if they were ecstatic caterpillars. We witness their revelations as the seasons flash by. The race against time has started. And spring will come back again.
- Age recommendation: 12+
By and with Andy Böni, Matthias Brücker, Cécile Creuzburg, Matthias Grandjean, Julia Häusermann, Annina Machaz, Lucas Maurer, Serafin Michel, Teresa Vittucci
Concept Teresa Vittucci und Annina Machaz
Choreografy Teresa Vittucci, Annina Machaz und HORA Ensemble
Theatre paedagogy Svenja Koch und Anna Fierz
Sound design Samuel Savenberg
Stage Michela Flück
Costumes Sophie Reble und HORA Ensemble
Assistent director Emma Bertuchoz
Assistent stage design Flora Bühlmann
Assistent costume design Liv Senn und Andy Böni
Dramaturgical support Benjamin Egger
Outside eye Yanna Rüger
Dramaturgical advisor Tanzhaus Zürich Jessica Huber
Technical direction and light design Robert Meyer
Production management Jörg Schwahlen
Artistic direction HORA Yanna Rüger
Photo Sophie Reble
A Theater HORA production in coproduction with Tanzhaus Zürich
Supported by City of Zurich Culture, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council
Special thanks to Züriwerk Foundation, Friends of Theater HORA Association
