Mélanie Gobet (1988, Geneva) is a Filipino-Swiss artist, active in the fields of contemporary dance and performance art. She lives and works in Fribourg, Switzerland. She places corporality at the centre of her approach and is more interested in process than form. She works with seriality, repetition, redundancy, rigor; partition, protocol, archive; trace, remains, memory.
For the past year, Mélanie Gobet has been questioning notions of heritage and asianity. Intimate, artistic and political, her new work mixes dance, text and performance, and attempts to unravel the migratory journey of her mother, who, like thousands of Filipinas, left to work as a domestic for wealthy families abroad. Filled with the experiences of the choreographer’s return trip to the Philippines, the piece is a fantasised investigation into how to recount and repair the wounds of trauma, carried by 3 performers*, daughters* of those who left everything behind for a future they were sold as better.
For T’es bonne !, the new creation by choreographer Mélanie Gobet, we are looking for people with Asian heritage, particularly Filipino heritage, based in Switzerland for the following roles:
The performance will be created in autumn 2024 in Fribourg (CH), with two weeks of rehearsals planned in July or August. Motivation to work with text and share personal story.
Languages spoken: French/English
Fee: based on SSRS recommendations
Please send your CV and a written or video presentation to hello@melaniegobet.ch by 8 January 2024.
Rencontre culturelle / Atelier
Animé par Natasha Stegmann
Un événement inédit autour des questions d’identité par et pour les personnes asiatiques, asiodescendantes, adoptées, originaires de l’Asie de l’Est et du Sud-est.
Qui suis-je ? Que suis-je ? Deux questions qui interrogent nos rapports à notre identité et notre légitimité à “parler de” et “en tant que”. Dans le cadre de cet événement inédit, les participantes et participants sont invités à décortiquer ensemble et dans un espace safe plusieurs aspects, certains cachés, d’autres visibles de leurs identités de personnes originaires, de loin ou de près, de l’Asie de l’Est et du Sud-est.
Cet événement a lieu dans le cadre de la résidence artistique de Mélanie Gobet – Résidence Recherche et Développement au Nouveau Monde, octroyée par la Ville de Fribourg.
