FROZEN MOVEMENT, FILMED MOVEMENT, SCULPTED MOVEMENT
FROM DRAW TO BRONZE by Max Pfänder
Video projection to coincide with the exhibition
To mark Swiss Museum Day, the Historical Museum is opening its doors for a journey to the heart of form, image and rhythm, where movement becomes eternity.
How do you capture a gesture when it disappears? How do you transcribe dance when it leaves the body to freeze in stone, bronze or the light of cinema?
Throughout the day, an immersive projection will be shown in the main cannon room, highlighting the work of sculptor Max Pfänder, whose work explores the moment transformed into form, movement fixed in matter.
A rare experience, to be enjoyed as part of the open days at museums across Switzerland.
The
IN-BETWEEN
Date
17 may 2025
Time
7:00 pm
Place
La Cour de Berne
La Neuveville
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Adultes 18+
Booking
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DANCE, AS A LIVING SCULPTURE
Alexandra Cassirer – dance, performance
In collaboration with:
Fête de la Danse National
The IN-BETWEEN
Live performance
As part of the Fête nationale de la Danse 2025 and the “Dance as Living Sculpture” festival, the Cour de Berne is transformed into a stage dedicated to exploring the boundaries between body and form, movement and stillness, presence and absence.
The IN-BETWEEN is a performance by Alexandra Cassirer, in which the body becomes a living, breathing sculpture, oscillating between form and formlessness. Without a fixed composition, this pure improvisation opens a space where time and intention are fluid, each moment unfolding in its original purity.
The performance is accompanied by a soundscape woven from 1970s cello compositions, religious chants, and experimental sounds, creating an atmosphere that is both sacred and raw, grounding and transcendent. These sonic layers reflect the body’s metamorphoses, evolving through tension, release, uncertainty, and constant change.
The audience becomes a witness not only to the physical vulnerability of the performer but also to human nature itself, in its fragility and strength, in the fleetingness of each moment. In this space, the body blurs the boundaries between dance, sculpture, and the very idea of existence, transforming the performance into less of a finished image and more of a continuous process—a never-ending flow of becoming, dissolving, and transformation.
The IN-BETWEEN offers an experience that transcends traditional perceptions of dance and sculpture. Here, the body becomes a vector of expression and a reflection of the changing nature of being – eternally in transition, eternally “in-between.”
