After nine performances featuring stunning sets, Gardi Hutter takes a radical leap of faith with a new work: Switzerland’s most famous clown takes on the empty stage and confronts—with her unmistakable comic-philosophical humor—the void, which is not actually nothing, but holds infinite potential.
With her unyielding sense of humor and extraordinary physicality on stage, the female clown embarks on a new journey: from the first spasm to complete transformation, she traverses the fabric of existence with the lightness of play and the depth of reflection. After nine productions centered on the theme of death—an archetype of the comic tradition—Gardi Hutter now turns her gaze to birth, to the moment when nothing becomes something, zero becomes one, and silence transforms into gesture.
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is a wordless performance in which opposites coexist and paradoxes flourish, alternating between farce and depth, emptiness and creation, lightness and intensity. In a world overloaded with noise, information, and packed schedules, Hutter invites the audience to pause at the origin, to contemplate the instant when everything begins, and to celebrate the wonder of continuous movement. A celebration of the imagination: clownish, grotesque, poetic.