Heavily Underestimated Gems is a visceral love fable where two bodies collide, cling and rebuild themselves. Through an intimate choreography of embrace, the piece explores tenderness, dependency, violence and the fragile work of finding oneself within the other.
Fueled by autofiction, its movement language emerges from rediscovered love letters, transforming memory into flesh. A soundscape of breaths and distorted pop fragments creates a shared emotional terrain. Both dreamlike and unsettling, the work traces the thin line between collapse and rebirth — a story of love that survives love, and of bodies ultimately learning how to part.
Bast Hippocrate is a Swiss Afro-descendant choreographer whose work merges dance, autofiction, and raw physicality. His pieces explore intimacy, vulnerability, and the ways personal narratives resonate collectively. Trained at La Manufacture, he develops creations rooted in tenderness and intensity, shaping spaces where the body becomes a site for questioning relationships and reinventing oneself.
Artistique direction & performance: Bast Hippocrate
Performance: William Cardoso
Lighting design: Duc Anh Vu
Sound creation: Golce Kummer
Sound engineer: Thibault Villard
Costume design: Zoé Marmier
Dramaturgy: Sélima Chibout
Outside eyes: David Weishaar and Mélissa Guex
Editorial consultation: Noémi Schaub
Jewelry: Capucine Jewelry
Administration: Oh la la – performing arts Production
Production and diffusion: Maxine Devaud / oh la la – performing arts production
Video recording: Sophie Berset
