Criptonite:
Slow Animals

Premiere: December 2020, Gessnerallee Zurich

In history, disability has often occupied the liminal space between the human and monstrous and animalistic. What does it mean to give into that cross-species affinity, and to explore mutual ways of being and moving in space?

Nina Mühlemann and Edwin Ramirez present the second episode of Criptonite, a new crip-queer series of events that focuses on artists with disabilities and creates an accessible, relaxed, and fantastic utopia.

Our second edition embraces slow animals, from the snail to the gila monster, as a way of challenging notions of productivity and efficiency. Join us as we enter the realm of dreams and surrender to slowness, shapeshifting and forms of intimacy outside the (human) norm. In true Criptonite fashion, there will be pop songs, dark humour and an abundance of gorgeous two-toed sloths.

Gessnerallee – Criptonite/Edwin Ramirez & Nina Mühlemann – Slow Animals

With and by: Edwin Ramirez & Nina Mühlemann

Performances: Alessandro Schiattarella, Chris Crippin’, Paloma Ayala

Choreography Support: Tanja Erhart, Alessandro Schiattarella

Dramaturgy: Kathrin Veser

Audio description: Kathrin Veser/Sophia Neises

Production management: Sarah Schoch

Stage assistance: Sina Knecht

Stage design: Gabriela Rutz

Light: Marek Lamprecht

Sound: Susanne Affolter

Supported by: Stadt Zürich, Kanton Zürich, EBGB, Stiftung Corymbo, Migros Genossenschaft Zürich

Co-Production: Gessnerallee und Freischwimmen. Freischwimmen ist eine Produktionsplattform für Performance und Theater, getragen durch brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, Schwankhalle Bremen, Sophiensæle Berlin und Theater Rampe Stuttgart