ElseWhere Rhapsody - Impulse Festival 2025

Two people stand out as dark silhouettes against the light orange background. One person stands in the foreground holding a microphone, while the other person can be seen in the background with an outstretched arm.

Two people are in a dark room with intense red lighting. One person is kneeling on the floor, only their back is visible. They are wearing a dark suit. The other person is on all fours and wearing light-colored clothing. Several bright lights can be seen in the background, arranged in an arc. A few small objects are scattered on the floor.

Jen Rosenblit

ElseWhere Rhapsody

Performance

“Jen Rosenblit takes the audience along on an eclectic voyage investigating queer desire. Poetry, song, eroticism, line dancing and utopia combine to produce a collage located somewhere in between tender intimacy and spectacular sensory overload.” Maria Ladopoulos, tanzschreiber.de, 2.3.2024

“Elsewhere is a place that is not here, it by definition is somewhere else.” In a vague Western landscape in ‘ElseWhere Rhapsody’, Jen Rosenblit looks at the eroticism of wanting, the familiarity of unavailability and the repetition that helps us to forget. For this she brings four outstanding protagonists of the European performance scene together on stage and takes us along a poetic text in four loose chapters, through crumbling landscapes and flawed formations. Between the polyphonic ballads of a live band, the performers’ line dancing interventions and an auction with multiple meanings, in ‘ElseWhere Rhapsody’ Jen Rosenblit, Nic Lloyd, Gærald Kurdian and Li Tavor orbit issues of consent and boundaries.

Jen Rosenblit is a Bessie Award winner who lives and works between New York and Berlin and brings together bodies, architectures and ideas around the disaffections of desire and autonomy. ‘ElseWhere Rhapsody’ had its world premiere at Tanzfabrik Berlin, has toured across Europe and will be seen for the first time in NRW at the Impulse Festival.

Dates

5 July, 20:30

6 July, 19:00

Tickets

Regular price: 16 €
Reduced price: 11 €
Supporters' price: 25 €
Minimum price: 6 €

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Venue

FFT Düsseldorf

Duration

80 minutes

Discussion

On 06.07., the performance will be followed by an aftertalk (in English).

Language

English

Accessibility

Information

Comprehension is not provided throughout. There is a text booklet at the end of the play with German and English play text.

Credits

Concept, Text, Performance: Jen Rosenblit
Sound Design, Performance: Gærald Kurdian
Song Composition, Performance: Li Tavor
Assistant, Guest Performance: Nic Lloyd
Lighting Design: Joseph Wegmann
Technical Director, Performance Technician: Thibault Villard
Research Assistants: Alex Piasente, Chiara Pagano
Producer: Diana Paiva / High Expectations

A production by Jen Rosenblit in co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, Arsenic – Centre d'art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, Théâtre Saint-Gervais, Genf, La Bellone, Brüssel, kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortrijk. Supported by La Becque Artist Residency.

Details on Accessibility

Information about the venue

Spatial access

Event takes place at FFT Düsseldorf.

The FFT is located on the first floor of KAP1. You can reach the first floor by lift - the floor is marked in Braille and tactile on the buttons. The lift only stops on the first floor during regular opening hours (starting one hour before each event).

The doors in the FFT are not self opening and are sometimes very difficult to open. If you need assistance getting around the building, please speak to us on site or contact us in advance.

Once you are on the 1st floor, the foyer and the event rooms are accessible without any steps. Stage 1 has an additional gallery that can only be reached via staircase from the foyer.

Distance

Paid car park approx. 170 metres (UFA Palast).

Distance to ‘Düsseldorf Mainstation’ approx. 150 metres. Depending on the means of transport and platform, the station has a lift and escalator. Current information on operations at bahnhof.de.

Audience situation

There is unallocated seating. You have free choice of seats. If you have specific seating requirements, please let us know when you buy your ticket - we can then take this into account on site.

Informationen for hearing impaired people

Acoustic amplification via induction for visitors with hearing aids

The stages of the FFT Düsseldorf are equipped with an inductive hearing system, which is used as standard for all productions.
Reception extends up to row 3, so please choose your seat accordingly. Unfortunately, the inductive hearing system cannot be used in the tier. Feel free to indicate your seating requirements when purchasing your ticket.

In order to use the inductive hearing system, the hearing aid must be switched to T or M/T. Further information on how this works in detail can be obtained from your hearing aid acoustician, as these settings vary depending on the indicidual device; the T coil must be activated.

As soon as the hearing aid is set to ‘induction loop’ (i.e. T or M/T), it will receive the magnetic field and the audio signal will be transmitted to the hearing aid wearer.

Informationen on Comprehension and Perception

Language

English spoken language. Full comprehension is not expected throughout the whole piece. There is a text booklet available at the end of the play, with the text in German and English.

Content Notes und sensory stimuli

We have not yet put together any specific information about the content of this event. Please contact us if you are missing any relevant information to help you plan your visit.

Informationen on the general organisation

Assistance on site/pick-up service

If you require a pick-up service from the nearest public transport stop or car park, please contact us before your visit at the festival.

Tickets

For festival tickets, you and your companion can choose to pay a minimum price of €6 per ticket. Please select which price you can and wish to pay.

Contact

We would like to cater for individual requirements for a festival visit (seating, early boarding, pick-up from public transport, etc.) as best we can.

As a festival team, we have irregular working hours, so our availability is not guaranteed at fixed office hours:

E-Mail: barrierefreiheit@impulsefestival.de
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