Berlin, 2025

I will begin a new work with Gry Tingskog, Emil Maria Ertl, and Laura Stellaci.

https://ausland.berlin/event/dance-residency-3a

July 7-13, 2025 & October 3-7, 2025.

“My recent research has been focused on Jewish rhythms and how they have changed through colonial and national projects. In this residency, with the support of Emil Ertl and Laura Stellacci, I would like to move with these rhythms through the lens of a sacred trickster. The sacred trickster is the symbol of shape-shifting, of the counter-ego, of the a-moral, the trouble that helps you see the truth, the moment when laughter becomes crying and crying becomes laughter. I want to research this archetype using low-brow techniques of vaudeville (a tradition that Jews and Jewish women especially were instrumental in building throughout the United States). This includes tap dance, mime, and clown. What kind of stories can we tell through these campy and deeply coded forms? How can we use the sacred trickster to both (1) tell a complex history of heritage loss through diasporic Jewish rhythm and (2) love, enjoy, and re-embody my ancestral rhythms? How can my body hold these contradictions? How might the absurdity of movement forms like clown or tap dance deconstruct and reimagine the rhythms? And how might Vaudeville highlight the profundity of their loss? Regardless of the ultimate form, the goal is to tell a different Jewish history, one that celebrates the shared worlds of my Jewish ancestors.”