EveryBody’s Fantasy explores erotic fantasies and questions how we look and experience them. The performance is inspired by Gertrude Stein’s 1937 Everybody’s Autobiography, after The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written by Stein in 1933 in the guise of an autobiography. Considering the biographical, the life-lived as an accessible format for others to enter, visit or witness with care and understanding, this work looks toward what would happen, what we could anticipate happening again and the fantasy that rests just beside.
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If gathering or the commons are something of the past, the work cultivates a perfume of “rehearsals for paradise” where gathering is not bound to inclusion or exclusion. We consider that place is where no one belongs but where many can exist. The work imagines a kind of temporary-holding in place of ownership, a way to take responsibility and take care inclusive of the ability to walk away, to depart, to end, to let a thing exist beyond our grasp, beyond our collection and maintenance of it. The work follows desire knowing that it is not bound to sense or sensibility.
- Concept, creation, text, performance: Jen Rosenblit
- Sound, composition, performance: Gerald Kurdian, Li Tavor
- voice, singing: Simone Aughterlony
- stage design: "Lazy Susan" Jonas Maria Droste
- Lighting design, technical direction: Enrico Dau Yang Wey
- Lighting operator, lighting design adaptation, technical direction: Joseph Wegmann
- Jacket Design: Sasa Kovacevic
- Production: Anja Weigl, Daniela Seitz / Culture On A Budget
- Current production: Diana Paiva / High Expectations
Additional information
- A production by Jen Rosenblit in co-production with Tanznacht Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien and Arsenic - Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne.
- Supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and SSA Société Suisse des Auteurs.
- Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Guest performance support dance,
- Supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the Länder.
- Supported by Danse & Dramaturgie, an initiative of Théâtre Sévelin 36, in collaboration with Dampfzentrale Bern, Tanzhaus Zürich, TU Théâtre de l'Usine, ROXY Birsfelden.
- The guest performance in the framework of Leisure & Pleasure is supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
- Media partners: Arts of the Working Class, Berlin Art Link, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz.die tageszeitung.
