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The air is thick and heavy with smoke and steam. A faint flicker of light dances across the wet concrete. Distorted metallic sounds echo through the ruins, pulsating relentlessly. There, in the shadows, strange creatures linger. If you look closely, you might catch them moving together through this fractured, haunting world.

wet dreams

2025

performance for 4 performers

60 min

In wet dreams, four performers dive into the murky streams of being together - as leaky and entangled 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, care and control, rethinking embodiment and interdependence. How can we (re)connect to our bodies and each other within systems that are built to divide? What if pleasure and joy are necessary for change? In a dystopian world shaped by racial capitalism, wet dreams offers a space to embrace our deep longings - to grieve, to laugh, to love and to imagine otherwise.

 

concept, artistic direction & scenography

Valerie Reding

sound and performance

Genosidra

choreography, performance & text

Bast Hippocrate, Valerie Reding, William Cardoso 

light & scenography

Joseph Wegmann 

choreographic advisor

Simone Aughterlony 

dramaturgical advisors

Jennifer Lopes Santos, Yuvviki Dioh 

logo design, visuals & teasers

Aron Smith 

object design

Victoria Papagni 

prosthetics

Meduusat Studio

water tank

Thomas Giger

vocal coach

Constanza Pellicci 

french horn

Tarek Beswick

production management

Moin Moin Production Caroline Froelich, REDart Valerie Reding

production assistance

Nico Dubosson 

documentation pictures

Julie Folly

documentation video and trailer

Sophie Berset

co-production

Tanzhaus Zürich, Kulturfabrik, TROIS C-L Maison Pour La Danse 

dramaturgical support Tanzhaus Zürich

Jessica Huber 

critical friend Tanzhaus Zürich

Meloe Gennai 

support

Albert Huber-Stiftung, BIL Fondation Indépendance, Dr. Adolf Streuli-Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Fondation Été, FONDS RESPECT der LOS, TGNS und Pink Cross, Kanton Zürich Kultur, Migros Kulturprozent, Ministère de la Culture, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, SIS Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung, Stadt Zürich Kultur, t. Theaterschaffen Schweiz

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