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Company
Company Rebecca Weingartner, CH, Website
Age
6+
Date
Fri, 22.01.2027, 10:00h - Uferstudio 14
Duration
60 min.

Rebecca Weingartner has already been a featured artist at PURPLE with her works “EQUALITY!” and “SOLIDARITY!”. With “GUGUS!”, she offers a refreshingly unconventional interpretation of the concept of freedom. Inspired by the Dada movement — that 20th-century artistic rebellion against logic, reason, and capitalist constraints — the production explores how we can free ourselves from the pressure to perform and (re)discover the pure joy of playfulness and the absurd. On stage, the two circus artists Demian Bucci and Guilhèm Charrier meet and whisk the audience away into a world full of nonsense, acrobatics, dance, onomatopoeia, music, and noise. They defy gravity, float through the air, transform into whimsical creatures, and leave everyday life—with its compulsive logic of growth and self-optimization—far behind.
“Gugus” is a Swiss German word that means both “hello” and “nonsense.”

Choreography: Rebecca Weingartner
By and with: Guilhèm Charrier, Demian Bucci
Music & Composition: Donath Weyeneth
Lighting & Technical Direction: Eric Scherrer
Dramaturgy: Luzius Heydrich
Outside Eye: Antoine Ragot
Vocal Coaching: Marena Whitcher

A production by Pascal Moor / Spring Production in cooperation with ROXY Birsfelden. Supported by the Performing Arts Committee of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, the Ernst Göhner Foundation, the Corymbo Foundation, the Cultural Fund of the Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), the BLKB Foundation for Culture and Education, the Swiss Performers’ Foundation (SIS), and the Werner Hasenböhler Foundation