Concept, choreography and performance: Sheena McGrandles / Performance by and with: Eli Cohen / Music composition: Stellan Veloce / Dramaturgy and Co-concept: Mila Pavićević / Set design: Anna Mirkin / Costume design: Evan Loxton, Nina Loxton / Light design: Elliott Cennetoglu / Choreographic Outside Eye: Zinzi Buchanan, Martin Hansen, Claire Vivienne Sobbotke / Shibari Practice with: Dasnyia Sommer / Production: Anna von Glasenapp / high expectations / Production Assistant: Katharina Joy Book / Social Media: Dalia Hassan / Distribution: Paz Ponce / Technical Direction: Carina Premer / Trailer: Greta Markurt / Thanks to: elsewhere & otherwise, Nattan Dobbkin, Nina Gribat, Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari
Sheena McGrandles
as long as you want
- Dance
approx. 60 mins.
“As long as you want” is a sensual duet by Sheena McGrandles and Eli Cohen about lesbian desire and temporality. In a pastel-coloured landscape of carpets and knotted denim, they move between Sappho, punk and Shibari. Playful and intense, a world emerges in which desire becomes an incessant force.
The duet “as long as you want” by Sheena McGrandles and Eli Cohen is a choreographic study of lesbian temporalities. The work is inspired by a body of erotic fantasy literature – assembling a cross-temporal arch of female poetic voices. Ancient poet Sappho meets contemporary thinkers such as Anne Carson and Sara Torres, alongside kink and punk practices, including Shibari, gay shadow dance, and pogo. A personal exploration of desire unfolds in a pastel-coloured landscape, developed together with the visual artist Anna Mirkin. It consists of patches of digital renderings and densely knotted denim structures hanging from the ceiling. Together the performers' solo bodies meet and melt in a world of never ending waves, rough play, and figures caught in a horizon of want and longing. Playful and engaging, "as long as you want" is a profound choreographic encounter with an impulse of moving toward someone who isn't yet close enough.
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Dates
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Further Information
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Credits
Production: Sheena McGrandles. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Location
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