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.
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Teresa Vittucci
ZÜRCHER THEATER SPEKTAKEL: SANE SATAN
Satan is taboo. The rebellious angel is the symbol of evil par excellence. But who decides what is considered evil? In SANE SATAN, the final part of the IN PRAISE OF VULNERABILITY trilogy, Vittucci uses humor to examine the stories and images that warn us so vehemently about the devil. As with Maria in HATE ME, TENDER and Eve in DOOM, Teresa and her team search for a new, queer-feminist reading of this dazzling figure from our cultural history. Seductive, monstrous and trapped in the prevailing structures, Satan opens up the potential of becoming an accomplice to all those who are devalued, excluded and oppressed because of their otherness.
Conception, direction, text Teresa Vittucci
Performance Alina Arshi and Teresa Vittucci
Dramaturgy, text, video, photo Benjamin Egger
Dramaturgical support Tanzhaus Zürich Lea Moro
Stage and light design Anna Wohlgemuth
Light design, technical direction Anahí Pérez
Choreographic and material assistance Emma Bertuchoz and Emmeliin Chemouny
Inventor Gabriel Schneider
Musik Gil Schneider
Tailor David Lammstrand
Partially developed with and special thanks to Henry Browne and Deborah Macauley
Production management Diana Paiva / high expectations
Administration Karin Erdmann
A production by OH DEAR! Zürich
Co-produced by Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Arsenic Lausanne, Tanzhaus Zürich, Charleroi danse DCCN, La Briqueterie CDCN, Théâtre Saint-Gervais Genève, Dampfzentrale Bern
Co-production in residency O Espaço do Tempo, La Briqueterie - CDCN du Val-de-Marne (supported by the French ministry of Culture / DRAC IDF)
Kindly supported by RESO Dance Network Switzerland, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Prix Tremplin Leenaards / La Manufacture
With the support of the Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA)
Special thanks to Belluard Bollwerk Festival Fribourg and Studio CUTE
