That's twisted (creation 2026) - Baptiste Cazaux

By shaping listening as a malleable, shifting material, That’s twisted creates a transformative terrain where temporalities, affects, and intensities are thrown off balance, blurring perceptions of time and reality. Drawing on a nostalgia for 2010s pop anthems—infused with nihilism and a bittersweet, joyful fatalism in the face of an uncertain future—the piece is grounded in a contemporary melancholy that Baptiste Cazaux seeks to move beyond.

Through a collage of dances and sounds spanning different eras, they construct a hybrid space in which gestures, music, and noise bend, overlap, and collide, like a DJ scratching through a track. In this sensual, psychedelic drift, memory and disorientation intertwine, revealing a hazy landscape of echoes, fragments, and ever-shifting presences.

In his article "TiK ToK: Post Crash Party Pop, Compulsory Presentism and the 2008 Financial Collapse", Dan DiPiero analyzes the impact of the 2008 economic crisis on pop music at the end of the 2000s. The Party Anthems written in the wake of the stock market crash all share a form of nihilism characteristic of the youth of those years, for whom the prospect of a future has been snatched away. The presentism described in the lyrics of these songs, intrinsic to the YOLO culture, becomes a form of escape for this generation: the past is gone, there is no future, and the present (already in ruins) becomes the only space-time to live in, making it essential to enjoy it to the fullest. Britney Spears sings, “keep on dancing ‘till the world ends”, Ke$ha says “the party don’t stop” and LMFAO shuffles through a deserted, devastated New York following a dance epidemic that drove people mad. Celebratory visions of a perpetual present, depicted as post-apocalyptic, coupled with a chronic but benign wistfulness for a bygone era that may not have been experienced, manifest. Partying and enjoying the moment are survival strategies, wielding dissociation as the only armor to navigate the cataclysm. A psychosomatic dissociation: a distorted perception of reality turning space and time upside down.

After EXERCICE DE STYLES #2 (2019), perfect pitch (2021) and GIMME A BREAK !!! (2023), That’s twisted is Baptiste Cazaux’ fourth project. The premiere will take place from 21 to 25 April 2026 in Pavillon ADC (Geneva, CH).

We are still looking for coproduction supports. Contact us to know more.

That’s twisted - a project by Baptiste Cazaux (creation 2026)

Concept, choreography, performance: Baptiste Cazaux
Music: Nelly Hello
External eye: Samir Kennedy
Sound: Gaspard Perdrisat
Lights: Justine Bouillet
Dramaturgy: Johanna Hilari
Sound advice: Sandar Tun Tun
Administration/ Production/ Swiss Distribution: Yamina Pilli – oh la la performing arts production
International Distribution: Quentin Legrand (Rue Branly)
Production: HONEYHONEYDANCEDANCE
Coproduction: Pavillon ADC (programme (AC)COMPAGNONS supported by Fondation Leenaards), Kaserne Basel
Residencies: Pavillon ADC, Kaserne Basel, IRA Festival, L’Abri
Supports: Coproduction Platform 2025 by RESO - Tanznetzwerk Schweiz - Réseau Danse Suisse

Photos © Morgan Carlier Van Elsande

 

UPCOMING TOURS

  • 21.04.2026 | Pavillon ADC, Genève (CH) - PREMIERE

  • 22.04.2026 | Pavillon ADC, Genève (CH)

  • 23.04.2026 | Pavillon ADC, Genève (CH)

  • 24.04.2026 | Pavillon ADC, Genève (CH)

  • 25.04.2026 | Pavillon ADC, Genève (CH)

  • 07.05.2026 | Kaserne Basel, Basel (CH)

  • 30.08.2026 | BMotion, Festival OperaEstate Veneto, Bassano del Grappa, IT

  • Oct 2026 | FIT Festival, Lugano, CH - exact date tba

  • 26.11.2026 | Südpol Luzern, Luzern, CH

  • March 2027 | Printemps de Sévelin, Lausanne, CH - exact date tba

  • 19.03.2027 | La Balsamine, Bruxelles, BE

  • 24.03.2027 | Usine à Gaz, Nyon, CH

PREVIOUS DATES

  • 07.09.2025 | Showing / Etape de travail, IRA Festival, Soverato (IT)