ImPulsTanz 2018: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins – Us Swerve

Three hours, three performers, poetry including lines from Eileen Myles or Langston Hughes: Us Swerve, 2014, is a score for performers on rollerblades. They orbit one another whilst reciting, remixing and reformulating fragmented lines of poetry that meditate on desire. This polyphonic script circulates among the performers and is perpetually altered by their movements, attitudes and affects. They begin to channel a queer archive of verses and move through and are set in motion by these articulations of desire and the sensuality of repetition. The visitors may come and go, though pleasure intensives with time …

Austrian Premiere
Duration: 180 min, come and go as you wish