A performer is leaning against a wall, seating in a lycra suit with her legs wide open. A performer is leaning against a wall, seating in a lycra suit with her legs wide open. A performer is leaning against a wall, seating in a lycra suit with her legs wide open. A performer is leaning against a wall, seating in a lycra suit with her legs wide open.

RUSH(ES) by Alexandra Bachzetsis: 16 – 17 October at the Hellenic Centre

RUSH(ES) by Alexandra Bachzetsis: 16 – 17 October at the Hellenic Centre

30
 
September 2025

This compelling new solo performance by renowned Greek-Swiss visual artist and choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis is conceived as an introspective journey. RUSH(ES) confronts behavioural taboos and interrogates the commodification of desire — constructed and deconstructed through the moving body.

RUSH(ES) is characterised by rapid transformations that push the body to its limits, reflecting pleasure, joy, solitude and anxiety through the intense physicality of the performer. In the process of corporeal metamorphosis, Bachzetsis navigates her body so that it ceases to be human and morphs into something else – an animal, an object, a tool.

In this solo performance, the audience is invited to perceive, examine and experience these physical transformations as a reflection of the collective consciousness. RUSH(ES) thus aims to evoke intuitive, immediate responses to music, space, text and the actions of the body, taking both performer and audience into a heightened state of awareness and transformation.

Blending autofiction and auto–documentation, the piece invites both performer and audience into a heightened state of awareness and transformation.

The performance will take place on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 October 2025 at 7.00 pm.  This is the London premiere of RUSH(ES) and spaces are limited.

For more information on tickets please follow this link: https://helleniccentre.org/event/rushes-bachzetsis/

Since 2001, Alexandra Bachzetsis has created over 30 works and presented at established institutions including Centre Pompidou, MoMA New York, Tate Modern and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Credits:

CONCEPT / CHOREOGRAPHY / PERFORMANCE: Alexandra Bachzetsis

CONCEPT / DRAMATURGY: Dorota Sajewska

TEXTS BY: Lee Lozano © The Estate of Lee Lozano. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

CONCEPTUAL ADVISOR: Stephen Thompson

MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska

MUSIC COMPOSITION AND SOUND DESIGN: Alban Schelbert

COSTUME DESIGN: Laurent Hermann Progin

SET DESIGN: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Ivan Wahren

LIGHT AND VIDEO DESIGN: Ivan Wahren

TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Ivan Wahren, Patrick Rimann

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY: Piotrn Niepsuj

PRODUCTION / STUDIO MANAGEMENT: All Exclusive, Caroline Krieg

STUDIO, ARCHIVE AND COMMUNICATION: Jean-Marie Fahy

TOUR MANAGEMENT: Laurent Hermann Progin

Supported by: Swiss Cultural Fund UK, Pro Helvetia – the Swiss Arts Council, Embassy of Switzerland in the UK, Embassy of the Hellenic Republic, Karma International and donors who wish to remain anonymous.