Production Details / Press Releases
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, with patches of digital renderings and densely knotted denim structures developed together with the visual artist Anna Mirkin.
Through intense physical connections and ambivalent sensations an ongoing choreography of fractured spaces of dis/attachment emerge. 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. In this temporary cycle of swellings and throbbings, desire transcends its fleeting nature, revealing transformative, perverse, and polymorphous forces. 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.
[Source: hebbel-am-ufer.de]
TFB Nr. 1944
Cast & Credits
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
Thanks to: elsewhere & otherwise, Nina Gribat, Nattan Dobbkin
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
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)
Hallesches Ufer 32
10963 Berlin
Tickets: +49 (0)30 259 004 27
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de
Video Documentation
The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):
University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)