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After the collective experience “Together Forever” the charismatic performer Jeremy Wade creates a one-man show. “Death Asshole Rave Video” is a machine that interrogates death and the agreements we make as a society. In a dark, gothic and queer setting Wade experiments with vehicles for experiencing different deaths – death of theatre, value, sense, and attachment. Jeremy Wade uses death as a metaphor to give us a wake up call. Jeremy Wade projects this research on the death of our Western society into the future. He asks us if all of the agreements that have been made are either breaking or already broken. Then what’s next? In his works, Wade brings queer strategies of resistance to the dominant forces of normativity onto the stage.

/ CAST & CREDITS /

DIRECTOR & PERFORMANCE: Jeremy Wade
TEXT: Ezra Green in collaboration with Jeremy Wade
VIDEO: Liz Rosenfeld
MUSIC: Mika Risk
COSTUMES: Minttu Vesala
LIGHT: Andreas Harder
ARTISTIC ADVICE: Thomas Schaupp, Jared Gradinger
PRODUCTION: björn & björn
COPRODUCTION: Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Jeremy Wade  

Special thanks to Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Tomi Paasonen, Fritz Welch, Gerard Reyes, Alessio Castellacci, Tanzhaus Zürich and West Germany aka Stephan and Grinni.

Jeremy Wade finished his training in 2000 at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. In 2006 he premiered his work “Glory” for which he received a Bessie Award in New York. Other works include “… and pulled out their hair” (2007), “Throwing Rainbows Up” (2008), “I Offer Myself To Thee” (2009), “Fountain and To The Mountain” (2011). In 2013 Wade served as Guest Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich and embarked on a new collaboration titled “Dark Material” with Berlin based Sculptor Monika Grzymala and the California based Experimental Musician Jamie Stewart aka Xiu Xiu. In the fall of 2015 Wade will premiere a new project centered on queer futurity and utopian critique titled “Drawn Onward” at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in collaboration with young Sci-Fi writer John-Erik Jordan.

Ezra Green is a poet from New York (USA), who is currently based in Berlin. He has made several collections of poetry, including most recently “Book of Vanishing” (The Quiet American Publishing Co.) and “Berlin Threshold Poems” (Kopierladen Presse). He has worked with a number of choreographers as dramaturge and writer, including Marysia Zimpel, Martin Hansen, Meg Stuart and Jeremy Wade. He is currently working on his first short film, “Helpless”, with George Lewis Jr.

Thomas Schaupp lives and works in Berlin, laboratory scientist by profession, is now about to finish his master-studies in dance-theory at Freie Universität Berlin. He works as dramaturge, artistic collaborator and artist’s assistant for choreographers such as Kat Válastur, An Kaler, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdottir and Angela Schubot. He is resident critic for the season 2014/2015 at ada Studio Berlin. Based on his research he was invited with lecture-presentations and workshops to several conferences and festivals around Europe and Canada.

Jared Gradinger is a performer/choreographer living in Berlin since 2002. Since 2009, he has been developing work and teaching with Angela Schubot. Their topic is the debordering of the body. He is a founding member of Constanza Macras/Dorky Park. In 2006, he began his ongoing collaboration with Pictoplasma, creating stage works and interventions for their festivals and exhibitions. In 2008, he began his curatorial relationship with Les Grandes Traversées in Bordeaux; creating his 3 part festival “How Do You Are” for the region. In 2008, he also started his long time work relation with Jeremy Wade. Gradinger is a core member of “Social Muscle Club”. www.jaredgradinger.com

Liz Rosenfeld is a Berlin-based artist working with genres of film and performance who has made a deliciously painful and lifelong commitment to understanding queers. She is one of the members of the film production collective NowMomentNow, and the foodbased performance group Foodgasm. www.lizrosenfeld.com

Mika Risiko is a Berlin based musician, producer and performer. Her work spans film scores, theatre projects and art as well as creating the soundtrack for short clips, like for the well-known Berlin party “Gegen”. Her current music projects are Ziúr and Crime, with which she’s played throughout the city and beyond. She has been cast in a Swedish theatre performance “Wild Minds” by Marcus Lindeen, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. mikarisiko.tumblr.com

Minttu Vesala is a stylist based in Helsinki (Finland), working in the fields of performance, fashion and advertising throughout Scandinavia. She has collaborated with photographers on different exhibitions, designed costumes for contemporary dance performances and worked as production designer on several short films. Vesala is fascinated and empowered by nightlife, witchcraft and the endless darkness of the North.

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// DEUTSCH //

Wie bereits der Titel nahelegt, war „Together Forever“, die letzte Arbeit von Jeremy Wade, ein kollektives und partizipatives Ereignis. Nun hat der charismatische Choreograf und Perfomer eine One-Man-Show erarbeitet. „Death Asshole Rave Video“ ist halb als Performance, halb als Konzert angelegt. Mit einer Maschinerie aus Bewegung, Sound und Worten befragt er den Tod selbst und unser gesellschaftliches Verhältnis zu ihm. Die Arbeit experimentiert mit verschieden Formen des Ablebens – dem Tod des Theaters, der Werte, des Sinns und der Bindungen. Ist das Ende vielleicht nur ein neuer Anfang? Jeremy Wade nutzt die Metapher des Todes, um wachzurütteln, um die Realität, in der wir leben, besser zu begreifen und schlägt einen weiten Bogen, der bis hin zum vermeintlichen Sterben westlicher Gesellschaften reicht. Der in Zusammenarbeit mit Ezra Green entstandene Text der Performance beschreibt den Tod als ein Medium der Transformation, mit dem sich Krisen überwinden und die Tragfähigkeit von Wertvorstellungen überprüfen lassen. In seinen Arbeiten nutzt Jeremy Wade queere Kulturtechniken als Mittel des Widerstands gegen herrschende Normen. So auch in seinem nächsten Stück „Drawn Onward“, das im Herbst 2015 im HAU Hebbel am Ufer zur Premiere kommen wird. Darin beschäftigt sich Wade in Zusammenarbeit mit dem jungen Sci-Fi-Autoren John-Erik Jordan mit queeren Zukunftsvisionen und kritischen Utopien.

/ BESETZUNG & CREDITS /

REGIE & PERFORMANCE: Jeremy Wade
TEXT: Ezra Green in Zusammenarbeit mit Jeremy Wade
VIDEO: Liz Rosenfeld
MUSIK: Mika Risiko
KOSTÜME: Minttu Vesala
LICHT: Andreas Harder
KÜNSTLERISCHE BERATUNG: Thomas Schaupp, Jared Gradinger
PRODUKTION: björn & björn
KOPRODUKTION: Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Jeremy Wade

Mit besonderem Dank an Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Tomi Paasonen, Fritz Welch, Gerard Reyes, Alessio Castellacci, Tanzhaus Zürich und das West Germany aka Stephan and Grinni.

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