Louise

With his successful play "Dance Macabre", the versatile stage artist Martin Zimmermann thrilled the Chur audience at the Swiss Theatre Meeting in 2022. He associates the canton of Graubünden above all with visits to his grandfather in Jenins, where he spent a lot of time as a boy. But Martin Zimmermann is almost more influenced by the many women who raised him in the Tösstal (ZH) and accompanied him into life. The question of equality and equality seems to have been answered as clear as day for him. His role models are mainly female* people.

After training in circus arts in Paris, Martin Zimmermann has now been touring internationally for more than 25 years. He invents, choreographs, stages (and sometimes acts himself) visual and physical theatre without words, whose mixture of contemporary circus, dance, theatre and spectacular stage installations inspires a large audience.

In his new work "Louise", Zimmermann works with four extraordinary dancers and circus artists. Each one brings a wide range of different experiences and talents. The piece is both an homage to the French sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) and an examination of the theme of resistance to all forms of tyranny.

Director: Martin Zimmermann
With: Bérangère Bodin, Eline Guélat, Rosalba Torres Guerrero, Marianna de Sanctis