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In Rodrigo Garcia Alves' and Liz Rosenfeld’s first duet for the stage, they create a concept for a contemporary communal hospice. To achieve this, they weave together objects, stories, projections, and fantasies, fabricating future worlds for each other through experimental practice in dance, text, and video. Rodrigo Garcia Alves and Liz Rosenfeld, coming fromBrazil and the US, met in Berlin almost a decade ago and entered into an artistic exchange on their own wishes, experiences, and stories from a queer position on death, dying, and terminal care. Which options are there during this phase in life for queer communities and families who are not related? How would we like to be seen and perceived during this vulnerable phase in life?

The piece represents the ongoing development of the HOSPICE project that the artists carried out in cooperation with tanzhaus nrw and the Düsseldorf Diakonie. They met people who dealt pragmatically as well as creatively with death in their research, among them a palliative care physician, a critical care doula, a choir master, a bondage expert, and a tattoo healer. Imbued with these talks, this duet for the present resulted.

Liz Rosenfeld is an artist who works in the fields of film/ video, performance, and personal, discursive writing practice. Liz explores the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methods, and both past and future stories. Rodrigo Garcia Alves is a choreographer and performance artist. He works with the concept of the artistic collage veering between autobiographical material, theatre, dance, performance art, as well as different manner of invisible knowledge from the global South.

Duration: 80 min.