Wagenvarieté

The Recorder in a Room

Two women, two tiny chairs, a tiny table, a cassette player, and several cassettes of Italian pop music. In this room, the two of them will try to accomplish a simple task: to relax to some good music.
In an awkward yet highly detailed and precise choreography, bodies and objects intertwine in space, effortlessly blending object manipulation, acrobatics, dance, and nonverbal interaction.

Extended Body: Braided Memoryn

An intimate duet between an artist and her long braids. Through dance, music, and acrobatics, body and object merge into a single entity, revealing memories, culture, and stories that extend beyond the body.

The stage becomes an intimate yet open space—like a living room—but with braids and a vertical rope. A dialogue unfolds, evolves, and moves, telling the story of “La loca de las trenzas” (the crazy woman with the braids).

drAi to sixty-two

“drAi bis sechZ” is a story about the emotional power of aesthetics. Starting with the question of how forms, movements, and images evoke emotions and create meaning, juggling and dance merge into a playful theatrical language. Virtuosic, light, and surprising, precise ball manipulation meets musical movement, and humorous situations meet subtle choreographic images.
We are invited to experience aesthetics not as something aloof, but as an immediate, shared experience. With humor, charm, and technical precision, drAi bis sechZ opens up a space where technical sophistication and human connection come together—poetically, accessibly, and with a twinkle in the eye.

SUGAR

“Cia Frutillas Con Crema ” explores the sweet experiences associated with sugar. A poetic, ambiguous world emerges at the intersection of desire, addiction, and abundance.
Through object theater and physical theater, images are created that reinterpret everyday life and explore our sensory and cultural relationship to the theme of sugar, without resorting to explicit narratives.

Jamil Tafazzolian

Jamil Tafazzolian is a magician, director and presenter – a crossover artist between illusion and the stage. Fascinated by theater, circus and classical music from an early age, he trained in acting, singing, choreography, piano and magic. He worked as a teacher, director and cultural manager, including at the Rosmarie Metzenthin Children’s and Youth Theater, and studied cultural management at the HSLU. As co-founder and artistic director of the La Poesia – Kleinkunst im Labor series and with projects in Zurich’s Zirkusquartier, he has been creating space for surprising stage formats for years. Today he works as a freelancer – for Schule & Kultur, TEDx Zurich, the Hotel Waldhaus Sils and Wagenvariété. Jamil is a creative inventor who builds bridges between people, arts and cultures with playful seriousness.

Sibill Urweider

Although Sibill Urweider studied classical piano, her artistic curiosity has always extended far beyond that. Since childhood, she has moved between different musical styles, theater, singing, and movement. She has toured Switzerland with bands, spent three years on the road with Zirkus Chnopf, and teaches piano to people of all ages. Sometimes she composes for theater and circus; other times she tinkers with synthesizers or sings on rotating stages. With a keen sensibility, she accompanies Jamil Tafazzolian’s magic at the Wagenvariété—showcasing her versatility to the fullest.