wet dreams

The streets are empty, cracked and slick with rain. The air is thick and heavy with smoke and steam. A faint flickering light bounces off the wet floor. A distorted metallic sound is haunting the space, pulsating relentlessly. Mysterious shapes lurk in the shadows. If you look carefully, you might catch glimpses of bodies moving through this strange, fractured world. Come closer. Do you want to be part of this intoxicating dream?

wet dreams

2025

performance for 2 performers

30 min

In wet dreams, four performers dive into the murky streams of being together - not just as humans, but as leaky and entangled bodies of water among other bodies of water, living on an aqueous planet. Drawing on hydro-feminism (Astreida Neimanis) and pleasure activism (adrienne maree brown), they explore the liminal spaces between fluidity and friction, pleasure and care, anger and contagious joy, rethinking embodiment, interdependence and resistance. What if pleasure is a tool for survival? What if rage can be generative? How can we (re)connect to our bodies and each other within systems that are built to divide? How can we be in this dystopian mess together? In a world shaped by racial capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy, wet dreams offers a space to embrace our deep longings - to encounter, to grieve, to laugh, to love and to imagine otherwise.

This teaser was made with footage recorded at the first public sharing of the performance at Tanzhaus Zürich in May 2025, a collaboration between Swiss-Luxembourgish transdisciplinary artist and performer Valerie Reding and Colombian sound artist, DJ and producer Genosidra aka Carlos Quebrada.

concept, artistic direction & choreography

Valerie Reding

performance

Genosidra & Valerie Reding

sound composition

Genosidra

lights and stage design

Joseph Wegmann