(Deutsche Version in Bearbeitung)

Three performers, one drummer and two dancers, go on a journey to cry while the space fills with metal music. They fake their tears until they make it and hold each other through the cry. Onions, chilies, vibrating flesh and rain coats come in handy while in search for the catharsis - will you join? 

Visually and emotionally charged, Metal Tears challenges societal norms surrounding masculinity and emotion from queer perspectives, through dance, voice and live drumming. Project.tgthr works with metal music from queer, anti-fascist and leftist bands and creates original music for the work with drummer Sam Ramer and sound designer Gil Schneider.

In Metal Tears, Project.tgthr continues a practice rooted in dreaming and imagining. Their artistic language - drawing on dance, voice work, and theatrical tools - emerges as a rather maximalist blend of emotionality, dreamlike qualities, and matter-of-factness, infused with humour and self-irony.

Künstlerische Leitung / Choreografie / Performance: Olivia Ronzani, Eevi Kinnunen
Schlagzeug / Performance: Sam Rahmer
Sound / Komposition: Gil Schneider
Bühne / Kostüm: Riina Leea Nieminen
Light design and tech management: Pina Schläpfer
Outside Eye / Dramaturgy: tbc
Produktionsleitung (CH): bct
Produktionsleitung (FI): Lisa Kalkowski
Metal expert: Daniel Suer

Recherche Team 2025:
Schlagzeug: Robin Nidecker
Outside Eye: Sara Gurevitsch
Fotos: Annick Bosson, Kuudestila
Collage: Olivia Ronzani

Koproduktion: Theater Roxy Birsfelden
Recherche 2025 unterstützt von: Migros Kulturprozent Ideation
Produktion unterstützt von: Fachausschuss darstellende Künste BL/BS

Recherche Residenzen 2024-25: Südpol Luzern, Story Villa Heinävaara (FI), Kuudestila residenssi (FI)
Produktion Residenzen 2026/27: Südpol Luzern, Tanzhaus Zürich

Premiere: April 2027, Theater Roxy Birsfelden