Sat 24.02. + Sun 25.02.2024
Each 3 – 5pm (come and go as you wish)
Performance time: 2 hours
Entrance fee: 6,00 € / red. 3,00 €
Free admission for children and young adults up to and including 21 years of age
Ludwig Forum Aachen is pleased to present Us Swerve (2014) by the internationally acclaimed choreographer Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, in cooperation with schrit_tmacher Festival.
In Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ Us Swerve (2014), performers on rollerblades orbit one another while reciting, remixing, and reformulating fragments of poetry that meditate on the subject of desire. This polyphonic choreographic “score” is perpetually altered by the performers’ movements, attitudes, and affects. As the performers circulate, they begin to channel a queer archive of verses and inflections, including lines from writers such as Essex Hemphill, Eileen Myles, and Langston Hughes. These articulations of desire and the sensuality of repetition both set the rollerbladers in motion and create a tableau for them to move through.
In collaboration with and performed by Felipe Faria, Jake Sherwood, Karl Fagerlund Brekke.
Studio director: Andrea Rodrigo
Studio manager: Sarie Nijboer
Management consultant: Rui Silveira
Distribution: Something Great
Originally developed with and performed by Zacharia Fletcher, Jose Funnell, Imma Mess, Karl Fagerlund Brekkebut.
Image: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins: performance view, Us Swerve (2014), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017. Photo: Atelier Diptik.
