As part of the exhibition «Suzanne Perrottet. After Dada, After Dance», Thibault Lac presents the new performance «Blue Moon» on March 26. The work draws on the life and practice of dancer and pedagogue Suzanne Perrottet and her encounters with the avant-garde circles of Dada in Zurich. It turns in particular to the nocturnal world of early twentieth-century cabarets—spaces where artistic experimentation unfolded and where popular entertainment, Kleinkunst, the milieu, and the avant-garde intersected.

In «Blue Moon», Lac revisits several of Perrottet’s involvements in the Dada circle and cabaret programmes such as Der Krater, where she performed the number «Die Bar» through mime and dance. Rather than reconstructing this figure, the performance treats it as a guiding presence to be traversed, so that the figure itself becomes the archive, activating gestures and traces from the past. Structured around the temporality of a rehearsal, the piece also echoes Perrottet’s first encounter…