Jeremy Nedd
slidin' thru
Brooklyn-born and Switzerland-based dancer and choreographer Jeremy Nedd, winner of the Swiss Performing Arts Award in 2023, centers his work around decades of social dances.
Recalling the social dances of the 70’s and 80’s, slidin’ thru—presented free of charge on the concrete PS21 former tent site—fosters togetherness through nostalgic sounds and movements. Three dancers move to connect with one another in the face of uncertainty, staged in social settings like basketball courts, squares, and here, PS21’s concrete former tent site.
Nedd desires for the communal energy of these spaces to move the audience to join in to the dance-turned-ritual, as a reminder that we’ve been here before, and that we’ll get through it together.
After its 2025 world premiere at Belluard Bollwerk International Festival in Switzerland, slidin’ thru has made its way to Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX and Festival TransAmériques in Montreal.
Jeremy Nedd is a choreographer and performer born in Brooklyn (New York). He currently resides in Basel, Switzerland. His performances focuses on the processes of dissecting, demystifying and re-contextualising content in order to confront definitions of validity and contemporaneity.
Nedd has had engagements at the Semperoper in Dresden (2010-2012) and Ballett Basel (2012-2016). He was associated with the Schauspielhaus Zürich as a guest performer, where he has collaborated with Trajal Harrell. Nedd has realised and presented his previous productions at the Kaserne Basel, ROXY Birsfelden, Arsenic – centre des art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and Münchner Kammerspiele, among others. In 2023, Jeremy Nedd received the Swiss Performing Arts Awards.
For several years Jeremy Nedd has been collaborating with the South African Pantsula collective Impilo Mapantsula. Together they have created three performances: The Ecstatic, how a falling star lit up the purple sky and blue nile to the galaxy around olodumare.
His latest performance, slidin’ thru, premiered at Belluard Bollwerk in spring 2025 in both indoor and outdoor versions. Three dancers, including Jeremy himself, draw inspiration from social dances of the 1970s in the U.S., while reflecting on what it means to keep cool in difficult times.
Concept / Choreography / Performance Jeremy Nedd
Performance / Choreography Zen Jefferson, Nasheeka Nedsreal
Choreographic Assistant Kihako Narisawa
Technical Direction Thomas Giger
Production Caroline Froelich (Moin Moin Productions)
Diffusion ART HAPPENS
In coproduction with Beluard, Kaserne Basel
With the kind support of Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater BS/BL, Pro Helvetia
