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Samuel Müller, LETZ A GO, 2025 ©Frédéric Palladino

KarteNoire2502, founded in 2019 by Mor Dovrat, Fanny Krähenbühl, Samuel Müller, and Antoine Zivelonghi in Biel/Bienne, has become a central platform for local performing artists. Initially a collective, KarteNoire2502 facilitates continuous artistic exploration and regular engagement with the public.

In its first three years, we hosted events in various venues around Biel/Bienne, including La Voirie, Nebia Poche, Format26, Juraplatz, and Espace Libre Visarte, as well as public spaces in the old town.

Since 2022, under the artistic direction of Mor Dovrat, KarteNoire2502 has transformed into a platform for local performing artists. Our philosophy is that artistic exploration begins on stage, not through writing dossiers. This belief drives our approach, in which artists are given a week to delve into a common theme and create short performances ranging from 7 to 20 minutes. Our performances provide a trampoline for new artistic experiments, many of which evolved into full-length productions.

Since 2023, KarteNoire2502 has been working in partnership with INCUBO, an experimental live arts development platform based at the BIOTOP Theatre, Biel/Bienne. Each September, during the INCUBO season, we open the creative kitchen of the Bieler free scene to the public and present short performances created during a week-long residency. The 2025 program will feature 12 performances by 14 local artists over three themed evenings.

KarteNoire2502 continues to be a dynamic force in the performing arts, reflecting the cultural and linguistic diversity of Biel/Bienne.

PROGRAMME 2026
16.-18.09.2026
In collaboration with INCUBO at BIOTOP Theater Biel

Edition 24 : BRAIN FREEZE

16.09 / 19:30

with Aleko & Maxtor, Victor Poltier, Marc Ugolini & HARZ

If we lick the sweet, cold ice cream too quickly, suddenly, the body slams on the emergency brake and the initial pleasure turns against itself. With this edition, Brain Freeze, artists are invited to explore seduction, overstimulation, addiction and that human tendency to keep doing what hurts us, as long as the pleasure seems worth it. They will explore the gap between our desires and our ability to satisfy them, questioning a world that encourages consumption whilst teaching us to ignore our own limits.

Edition 25 : DAS NICHTS

17.09 / 19:30

with Branca / Cie ChamploO, Grėtė Šmitaitė, Matthias Rüttimann & Sylvia Gwerder, Marion Rothhaar & Hotcha & Nico Delpy

Nothingness makes us feel uneasy. We rush to fill this void with stories, systems, beliefs and noise, as if nothingness were intolerable. Perhaps what troubles us most is not the void, but the possibility that, beneath all our structures, there is no ultimate foundation to hold them together. ‘Das Nichts’ invites artists to engage with emptiness itself: the unease of non-being, the impossibility of imagining nothingness, and that strange human need to constantly replace emptiness with meaning.

Edition 26 : UNDER PRESSURE

18.09 / 19:30

with Beth Dillon & Gregory Stauffer, Mor Dovrat & Samuel Müller, Clea Eden & Fanny Krähenbühl, Priska Elmiger

Pressure is constant. We often only notice it when something starts to give way: when an exhausted body collapses, when a strained relationship breaks down, when an unstable regime crumbles. Between resilience and exhaustion, discipline and overload, pressure takes on a political dimension by becoming the measure of what society considers bearable, productive or excessive. Under Pressure invites artists to explore our relationship with pressure as a constant negotiation of our limits, confronting those unstable, invisible boundaries that separate our comfort zone from our breaking point.

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

EROS

Emilie Bisetti & Dany Digler, Beth Dillon & Gregory Stauffer, Johannes Dullin, Rosine Ponti

14.09.2025 // INCUBO

IT’S ABOUT TIME

Nicole Berndt-Caccivio, Vita Malahova, Nelson Schaub, Antoine Zivelonghi

12.09.2025 // INCUBO

INDIVIDUUM

Isabelle Freymond, Pascale Güdel & Julien Mégroz, Claudia Nuara, Christoff Raphaël Mortagne

11.09.2025 // INCUBO

COMME IL FAUT
Clea Eden & Gael Chapuis, Fiona Vuilleumier, Cie Frau Trapp (Matteo Frau & Mina Trapp), Nicole Berndt-Caccivio
20.09.2024 // INCUBO

WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
CHAD, Dorian Kaufeisen & Amina Kampichler, Emilia Catalfamo, Lukas Larcher & Matz Hoby
19.09.2024 // INCUBO

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
Dafni Stefanou, Christa Barrett, Hanna Röhrich & Jasmin Kiranoglu, Samuel Müller
18.09.2024 // INCUBO

PUER ROBUSTUS
Emilia Catalfamo, Stefanie Inhelder, Fanny Krähenbühl, Dafni Stefanou
25.11.2023 // Nebia Poche

PUER ROBUSTUS
Mor Dovrat, Samuel Müller, Marco Rotellini, Philippe Wicht
2.12.2023 // Nebia Poche

HAPPY ENDS
Beth Dillon, Mattias Hoby, Lukas Larcher, Fiona Vuilleumier
29.9.2023 // INCUBO

DRAMA QUEEN
Eve Chariatte, Clea Eden, Isabelle Freymond, Claudia Nuara
28.9.2023 // INCUBO

FESTISCH
Mor Dovrat, Donia Sbika, Antoine Zivelonghi
6.7.2022 // espace libre

PYGMALION
Mor Dovrat, Samuel Müller, Fanny Krähenbühl, Rebekka Gather, Dafni Stefanou
11.12.2021 // Nebia Poche

HYSTERIA
Beth Dillon, Mor Dovrat, Samuel Müller, Raphael Vuilleumier, Antoine Zivelonghi
30.10.2021 // Voirie

ABER SICHER!
Mor Dovrat, Isabelle Freymond, Samuel Müller, Lukas Larcher, Antoine Zivelonghi
16.9.2022 // Format26

RED HERRING
Mor Dovrat, Isabelle Freymond, Samuel Müller, Raul Vargas Torres, Antoine Zivelonghi
17.4.2021 // Voirie

REMAKE
Mor Dovrat, Samuel Müller, Fiona Vuilleumier, Antoine Zivelonghi
19.12.2020 // Juraplatz Art Space

LES HISTOIRES CRÉENT L'HISTOIRE
Mor Dovrat, Fanny Krähenbühl, Samuel Müller, Claudia Nuara, Kollektif Rapilento, Antoine Zivelonghi
10.10.2020 // Voirie

DIE LANGEWEILE
Beth Dillon, Mor Dovrat, Fanny Krähenbühl, Samuel Müller, Sara Uslu, Antoine Zivelonghi
27.6.2020 // Multiple locations, Biel/Bienne old town

DAS JAHR 2502
25.4.2020 (cancelled due to COVID measures)

CARTE BLANCHE
Fanny Krähenbühl, Gregory Stauffer, Florian Reichert, Antoine Zivelonghi
5.12.2019 // Voirie

DINI MUEDER
Mor Dovrat, Luigi Guerrieri, Fanny Krähenbühl, Samuel Müller, Antoine Zivelonghi
12.10.2019 // Voirie

AMERICAN DREAM
Mor Dovrat, Fanny Krähenbühl, Samuel Müller, Ernestyna Orlowska, Antoine Zivelonghi
29.6.2019 // Voirie

WATCHING YOU WATCHING ME
Elvio Avila, Mor Dovrat, Fanny Krähenbühl, Samuel Müller, Antoine Zivelonghi, Joel Hefti
30.4.2019 // Voirie

LAB RATS

In 2026, we’re launching a new workshop format led by local artists, for local artists. Through a series of three-day labs, we dive into experimental theatre, dance, and music practices—sharing creative tools, opening artistic questions, and exploring possibilities for new works and methodologies.

LAB RATS offers performing artists a space to expand their practice by developing and facilitating workshop models, while participants deepen their own work: testing new materials and processes, observing one another’s approaches, and allowing fresh ideas to emerge.

Collective residency, INCUBO season 2025
Photo ©Frédéric Palladino

LAB RATS #1

MOR DOVRAT & NICA BERNDT-CACCIVIO

24-26.04.2026

10:00 - 17:00

Aimed at artists who generate their own material (especially solo practitioners and independant collectives), the lab explores practices of lingering in the unknown. Creation begins with infinite potential. Rather than rushing to resolve the sometimes disorienting freedom of possibilities that exist before an idea takes form, we explore receptive states, giving space to what emerges when we let go of control in the creative process.

Over 3 days we share concrete tools for strengthening presence and sustaining creative processes without collapsing into doubt, self-judgement or over‑determination. Body, breath and voice exercises are used to enter this threshold, generating rich inner landscapes. The process unfolds in a shared space of attention and embodiment. What happens to material when it is witnessed? When does the private become relational? How does form crystallise under the gaze of others?

Artistes:

Nica Berndt Caccivio is a dancer, choreographer and osteopath with over 40 years of experience, working closely with the nervous system and facilitating strategies for self‑regulation.

Mor Dovrat works as a solo performer and collaborative artist for over 18 years, embracing existential paradoxes through dark humor and embodied presence.

DETAILS
24.–26. April 2026
10:00 – 17:00

VENUE
FBI Studio
Ancienne Couronne, Biel Old Town

PRICE
Reduced Price 90 CHF
Normal Price 150 CHF
Inscriptions until 10. April
kartenoire2502@gmx.ch

PARTICIPATION
For professional performing artists of all levels. Participants commit to the whole three days. Please bring: a childhood photograph of yourself, comfortable clothes, paper and something to write with.

Mor Dovrat, Holy Shit, INCUBO 2024 ©Frédéric Palladino

LAB RATS #2
WÆXE
06.-07.06.2026
+ open discussion session 03.06.2026

DESCRIPTION

Step into the universe of WÆXE, where bodies meet algorithms, where movement becomes image, sound, signal and digital matter.
This workshop invites participants to enter a playful zone between dance and code. We will explore how the body can speak with machines, how a camera can read a gesture, how a movement can become data, texture, rhythm, shadow or light.
There will be sweat, attention, improvisation — and the strange language of the machine: taka-taka-taka, lines of code, loops, signals, pixels, glitches, repetitions. Not as something cold or distant, but as a new partner to move with.

Participants can choose their own way into the process: more oriented toward body / dance / performance, or more toward code / technology / image. No need to master both. The workshop is built as a shared space where dancers and technologists can meet, exchange roles, and create together. Through movement exercises, simple demonstrations and hands-on experiments, we will build short interactive sketches combining bodies, camera, open-source coding tools, images, video and sound.

No previous coding experience is needed.

(We are not machine after all…)

About WÆXE 

WÆXE is a duo working between digital art, performance, and science. Their work merges body and reactive audiovisual environments, creating poetic experiences at the boundary of physical and digital worlds.
Featuring artist and performer Izabela Orzelowska and new media artist Gonzague Rebetez.
waexe.com 

@waexe_collective

PROGRAMME

Wednesday | 03.06.2026 | 19:30
Optional gathering open to anyone who would like to learn more about the dance / code technology and its applications in live performance. It is possible to join the discussion without participating in the weekend workshop.  

Saturday | 06.06.2026 | 11:00–18:00
Entering the system

Sunday | 07.06.2026 | 11:00–18:00
Shaping

VENUE
Studio Teki Tekua

Project X Rennweg 62, 2504 Biel

PRICE
To keep the workshop accessible to people with different levels of income, we propose two prices:

Reduced price 60 CHF

Regular price 100 CHF

MATERIAL
Bring your own laptop, picnic and comfortable clothes to move in. All other equipment is provided.

INSCRIPTIONS

Please write to us at kartenoire@gmx.ch to register. Inscriptions close 31.05
In your email, please briefly answer these two questions so we can shape the workshop contents to the needs of each participant:
Is your focus dance, technology or a mix of both?
Do you have a personal project you wish to work on during the workshop?

TEAM

Mor Dovrat, Artistic Direction