As Artists-in-Residence, the duo husbands will engage in a series of micro-performances and interventions throughout the Festival.

About husbands

As trans siblings Yevheniya Kravets and Yann Slattery connected on a personal level first. They got to know each other through Ballroom in 2019 and connected deeper as they were both part of House of B. Poderosa until 2021 & 2022.

Since the end of 2022 they have been working together collectively as a duo under the name of husbands.

Yevheniya Kravets (they/them, *2000) is a Ukrainian performer and emerging choreographer based in Zurich and Amsterdam. Coming from a trained dance, battle and choreography background, Yevheniya began their movement journey at the age of seven, practicing traditional Ukrainian dance. In the summer of 2021 they graduated from the HF for Contemporary and Urban Stage Dance at Tanzwerk101 in Zurich. As a trained, versatile mover, Yevheniya is skilled in Hip-Hop, Floorwork and New-way Voguing. After graduating, they`ve been working with and for Nikima Jagudajev, Fluxcrew, Anna Chiedza Spörri, Young boy dancing group and Remidemi in Switzerland and abroad.

Yann Slattery (they/he, *1997) is an Austrian artist & stripper living and working in Basel at the intersections of performance, clothing and installation. Their praxis often moves in in-between spaces and around failure and forms of tragedy/comedy. Yann finished their Bachelor in Fashion Design in 2022 and is currently doing their Masters of Fine Arts at the Institute Art, Gender, Nature in Basel. As a performer, they’ve been working with and for artists like Isabel Lewis, Nils Amadeus Lange, Monster Chetdwyd, Young boy dancing group and DIVAS.

In their work as husbands, Yevheniya and Yann use queer fiction and game structures with the interest of mocking and tricking power dynamics. Their recent interest lies in working with intimacies of a strip club, switching between stripper, pimp and watcher, and creating a space where performers and audience can meet emotions without judgement.