wet dreams

Imagine a gloomy post-apocalyptic urban setting. The air is thick and heavy with smoke and steam. A faint light is bouncing off the wet floor. A distorted industrial sound is haunting the space, pulsating. Mysterious shapes are lurking in the shades. If you look carefully, you might catch bodies moving through this strange universe. Come closer. Do you want to be part of this intoxicating dream?

wet dreams

2025

performance for 2 performers

30 min

Inspired by hydro-feminism and pleasure activism, wet dreams explores our shared vulnerabilities and mutual interdependencies as watery beings on an aqueous planet, dreaming up ways of being together that honor all bodies of water - including non-human ones. What strategies can we embody to transform the atomizing and destructive structures of oppression in our capitalist, colonial, racial and patriarchal contemporary society - with fluidity and friction, pleasure and care, anger and contagious joy? What is the potential of rituals to transcend, transform, heal and build connection? How can we be in this dystopian mess together?

This teaser was made with footage recorded at the first public performance of wet dreams 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