Jan Pezzali and Stefanie Inhelder
Photo: Regina Jaeger
Jan Pezzali is a freelance actor. He trained at the Comart theatre school. In 2012 he received the Migros Culture Percentage Study Award. He has appeared in several productions on stage, street and screen. Among others for the Zurich Opera House, Paula fliegt, Cie. Chapeau, Tellfilm. He also works in production management, theatre education and directing. He is currently performing his new solo program: Signor Aldo - [ˈkoːmɪʃ]. Pezzali is the father of two sons.
Photo: Alessandra Carosi
Stefanie Inhelder was born in 1988 in Uster, ZH and lives in Biel/Bienne. She completed a 3-year training program in movement acting at Comart in Zurich from 2009-2012. Between 2016-2019, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Movement at the Bern University of the Arts. In 2014, she founded Cie Stradini Theatre, where she worked as artistic director for several years. As an actress and dancer, she performs for Philippe Boë, Anna Heinimann, Louis Spagna, among others... In 2020, she receives the Atelier Scholarship for Dance and Theatre. The following year, she won the 2-12 program of the Cité internationale des arts Paris. She is currently researching the intersection of performing arts, music and artificial intelligence with motion capture. With the founding of her own Cie ThREE, she combines documentary content with an interdisciplinary, artistic language.
Project
Three generations ago, the Swiss colonized Sumatra in Indonesia. Not only land, but also women. We follow the life story of one of these Nyais, my great-grandmother. The documentary piece tells the story of how she is bought, how she becomes a mother, how she loses sight of her sons and finally disappears. Two dancers and a singer interpret and decolonize the past with the aim of escaping feminine and colonial stereotypes. This exploration expands into the space with the technique of motion capture. Using motion sensors, bodies, sound and visuals interact around the question of origin and gender. Jan Pezzali accompanies me in finding the common thread and not losing it again in the process of creating this piece. Concentration!
