Co-funded by the
Creative Europe Programme
of the European Union
Creative Europe Programme
of the European Union
In their first duet for the stage, the artists Rodrigo Garcia Alves and Liz Rosenfeld dedicate themselves to creating new ways of a community hospice. To do this, they weave objects, stories, projections and fantasies and create future worlds for each other through experimental dance, text and video practices. Hailing from Brazil and the US, Rodrigo and Liz met in Berlin almost a decade ago and began an artistic exchange about their own desires, experiences and stories associated with a queer position on death, dying and end-of-life care. What care options are there during this phase of life for queer communities and families who are not related? How do people want to be seen and perceived in this vulnerable phase of life? Together, the two artists met with diverse people who work with death in both pragmatic and creative ways, including a palliative care physician, a dying doula, a choir director, a bondage expert, and a tattoo healer. Inspired by these conversations, Rodrigo Garcia Alves and Liz Rosenfeld have built their current hospice, this duet for the present.