Date | Soil – Valentine Paley (CH), Aïcha El Fishawy (CH) |
Venue | Salle del Castillo |
Price | Free |
It is on the edges of all things that the most interesting events happen: Soil
Valentine Paley (CH) , Aïcha El Fishawy (CH)
The border is not just a threshold or a transitional space: it is a place of intensity and conviviality. In permaculture, the “edge effect” refers to the zone where two ecosystems meet, creating an environment rich in biological and relational diversity. In the practice of Vevey-based dancer and choreographer Valentine Paley, the danced gesture meets agricultural and t domestic gestures, gaining a deeply rooted and sensitive dimension.
The most interesting things happen on the margins is grounded in this attention to the in-between: between bodies, between disciplines, between artists. For foodculture days, Valentine Paley presents three original choreographic and musical interventions — Rave-Broth, Soil, and Mouth (Chewing) — which resonate with works by other artists invited to this 5th edition. Each activation becomes a space for dialogue, where movement and food weave new ways of exploring the commons. Like soil cultivated at the edges, this project explores the power of the margins and the strength of encounters.
Guest Artists
Aïcha El Fishawy
In echo with the intervention by Larissa Tikki – “The Dinner Party”
Photo credits:
1. TF23 Vevey © Yuri Sory Plonger
Valentine Paley (CH) is a dancer and choreographer. She trained in contemporary dance at Le Marchepied (Lausanne) and at the CDC – Centre for Choreographic Development in Toulouse. Since 2009, she has been committed to her own research. She creates and performs choreographic works (stage pieces, outdoor performances, performative installations) in Switzerland and beyond.
As a performer, she has collaborated with, among others, Jasmine Morand, Claire Dessimoz, Louise Hanmer, Cosima Grand, Oliver Roth, Audrey Bodiguel, Julien Andujar, and Ernestyna Orlowska. Passionate about collective adventures, she engages in a wide range of fields and projects, from agroecology to yoga teaching, from activism to contemporary art spaces.
Aïcha El Fishawy (CH) – Born in 1986 in Geneva, Aïcha El Fishawy trained in dance at Marchepied (CH) and Coline (FR). Since 2011, she has worked as a dancer, choreographer, and contemporary dance educator. She is also one of the founders and coordinators of Projet H107, a space for choreographic creation in Geneva.
Recently, she performed in Nous voulons la Lune and Tropique by Marion Baeriswyl, D.C.P, Safari, Mascarade, and Assis by Cédric Cherdel (Cie Uncanny), as well as L’agenda des tentacules and Derrière les arbres by Nathalie Tacchella (Cie de l’estuaire). She has also collaborated regularly with Valentine Paley (Fréquence Moteur), Laurent Cebe (Cie des Individué.e.s), and Zofia Klyta-Lacombe. As a choreographer, she presented Là at Théâtre du Galpon as part of Présent continu, a project led with Marion Baeriswyl, D.C.P, Manon Hotte, and Dorothée Thébert.