Two people in blonde wigs hug each other and look fearfully into the camera. One of the people is wearing a large glove modeled to look like the hand of a monster with long black fingernails.
© Benjamin Egger
Two people in blonde wigs hug each other and look fearfully into the camera. One of the people is wearing a large glove modeled to look like the hand of a monster with long black fingernails.
© Benjamin Egger

Teresa Vittucci

Sane Satan

Shooting star of the Zurich performance scene invites you to dance with the devil as a ménage-à-trois between two performers and the audience.

Tickets:

24/18/9 Euro (conc. from 9 Euro, 50% with Festivalkarte)

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Friday

8/16/24

8:00 PM

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Saturday

8/17/24

7:00 PM

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Saturday

8/17/24

8:15 PM

8:15 PM

Artist Talk: Teresa Vittucci

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Sunday

8/18/24

7:15 PM

Teresa Vittucci is the new star in the sky of radical feminist performance art. After first transforming the Virgin Mary into an ambassador of queer feminism and then celebrating the biblical Eve as an icon of female curiosity, it’s now the devil’s turn: SANE SATAN is what Vittucci calls the third part of her trilogy IN PRAISE OF VULNERABILITY, which she is now premiering at Summer Festival. The renegade angel Satan, as a symbol of evil, is a perfect match for the Austrian performance maker based in Zurich. After all, who actually decides what is considered evil? What is Satan’s murder rate of ten compared to the 2.921.364 murders attributed to God in the Bible? Can the castout outsider Satan not be employed as an accomplice for all those who are devalued, oppressed and excluded because they are different? Together with fellow performer Alina Arshi, Vittucci explores drag, satanic sound and “bimbofication” (the appropriation of the hyperfeminine) as antitheses to patriarchal divinity – with a lot of pink to match Summer Festival!

In a dark, red-lit room, a thin woman lies on black plastic sheeting and stretches her leg forwards. She is bent forward slightly. Her face is covered by a blonde wig. She is wearing a short top, white shoes and no pants
© Alexandra Polina
A fat, white, naked woman crawls menacingly on the floor towards the camera. Her face is in shadow of green light. She wears red monster gloves with black claws and has long, straight blonde hair that falls gently over her shoulders.
© Alexandra Polina
Two women stand in front of a red wall and argue. Both are wearing short white tops, tiny handbags under their armpits, blonde wigs and red monster gloves with long claws. One shows her middle finger, the other makes a choking gesture.
© Alexandra Polina
Two naked women with blonde, ill-fitting wigs stand close together, holding hands and smiling into each other's eyes. They are wearing red monster gloves with black claws and tiny handbags on their arms.
© Alexandra Polina
Close-up of two hands holding each other, wearing red monster gloves with long black claws. The fingers are tenderly intertwined. Their bodies are naked. Both are carrying tiny colourful handbags under their armpits.
© Alexandra Polina
A fat, white, naked woman walks with her back to the camera towards a red background, elegantly swinging her long, straight, blonde hair. She carries a tiny blue handbag on her shoulder and stretches her arms out to the side.
© Alexandra Polina
A close-up of a person lying on the floor on a black plastic sheet and wrapped in the sheet. The face is half covered by the film. Green light shimmers on the dark scene.
© Alexandra Polina
Two people with blonde wigs hug each other tightly and look sadly into the camera at the same time. They are wearing white tops and shoes, but no pants.
© Benjamin Egger

Performance Alina Arshi & Teresa Vittucci Dramaturgy, Text, Video Benjamin Egger Dramaturgical Support 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 Tailor David Lammstrand Music Gil Schneider 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, Kulturfonds der Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA)

Special Thanks to Belluard Bollwerk Festival Fribourg and Studio CUTE