That's twisted (creation 2025-2026) - Baptiste Cazaux

The creation of That’s twisted starts from a deep melancholy, the feeling that it is difficult to imagine a joyful future for humanity. A sense of uncertainty feeds my panicked fear of death and the future. The multiple crises (wars and genocides, the rise of the far right, COVID-19, etc.) experienced in recent years give me a paralyzing sense of helplessness that is hard to overcome.

In his article "TiK ToK: Post Crash Party Pop, Compulsory Presentism and the 2008 Financial Collapse", Dan DiPiero analyzes the impact of the 2008 economic crisis on pop music at the end of the 2000s. The Party Anthems written in the wake of the stock market crash all share a form of nihilism characteristic of the youth of those years, for whom the prospect of a future has been snatched away. The presentism described in the lyrics of these songs, intrinsic to the YOLO culture, becomes a form of escape for this generation: the past is gone, there is no future, and the present (already in ruins) becomes the only space-time to live in, making it essential to enjoy it to the fullest. Britney Spears sings, “keep on dancing ‘till the world ends”, Ke$ha says “the party don’t stop” and LMFAO shuffles through a deserted, devastated New York following a dance epidemic that drove people mad. Celebratory visions of a perpetual present, depicted as post-apocalyptic, coupled with a chronic but benign wistfulness for a bygone era that may not have been experienced, manifest. Partying and enjoying the moment are survival strategies, wielding dissociation as the only armor to navigate the cataclysm. A psychosomatic dissociation: a distorted perception of reality turning space and time upside down.

After EXERCICE DE STYLES #2 (2019), perfect pitch (2021) and GIMME A BREAK !!! (2023), That’s twisted is Baptiste Cazaux’ fourth project. The premiere is expected for springtime 2026 (Pavillon ADC, Genève).

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That’s twisted - a project by Baptiste Cazaux (creation 2025-2026)

Concept, choreography and performance : Baptiste Cazaux Music : Nelson Schaub Assistant : lisa laurent Sound : Gaspard Perdrisat Light : Justine Bouillet Administration/Production/Swiss Distribution : Yamina Pilli – Ohlala production International Distribution : Rue Branly – Quentin Legrand

Production : HONEYHONEYDANCEDANCE Coproduction (in progress) : Pavillon ADC