ELSEWHERE RHAPSODY
Performance Social/Urban Movements Theatre & Performance
“Elsewhere is a place that is not here, it by definition is somewhere else.” In a vague Western landscape in ‘ElseWhere Rhapsody’, Jen Rosenblit looks at the eroticism of wanting, the familiarity of unavailability and the repetition that helps us to forget. For this she brings four outstanding protagonists of the European performance scene together on stage and takes us along a poetic text in four loose chapters, through crumbling landscapes and flawed formations. Between the polyphonic ballads of a live band, the performers’ line dancing interventions and an auction with multiple meanings, in ‘ElseWhere Rhapsody’ Jen Rosenblit, Nic Lloyd, Gærald Kurdian and Li Tavor orbit issues of consent and boundaries.
cast
Jen Rosenblit is a Bessie Award winner who lives and works between New York and Berlin and brings together bodies, architectures and ideas around the disaffections of desire and autonomy. ‘ElseWhere Rhapsody’ had its world premiere at Tanzfabrik Berlin, has toured across Europe and will be seen for the first time in NRW at the Impulse Festival.
Concept, Text, Performance: Jen Rosenblit
Sound Design, Performance: Gærald Kurdian
Song Composition, Performance: Li Tavor
Assistant, Guest Performance: Nic Lloyd
Lighting Design: Joseph Wegmann
Technical Director, Performance Technician: Thibault Villard
Research Assistants: Alex Piasente, Chiara Pagano
Producer: Diana Paiva / High Expectations
credits
A production by Jen Rosenblit in co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, Théâtre Saint-Gervais, Genf, La Bellone, Brüssel, kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortrijk. Supported by La Becque Artist Residency.