LETTER TO DANCE 

(Spanish: Querida Danza, Bahasa Indonesia: Hai Tari)

 

This performative letter to Dance was created within the framework of the project Just in Time by deufert&plischke. Based on the poem America by Alan Ginsberg, this “letter” directly addresses its recipient —Dance— to enable a direct correspondence. At times humorous, at other times poignant, this solo by dancer Kareth Schaffer works through feelings of love and hate, anger and desire, grief and dreams: Dance is addressed as best friend, lover, enemy, therapist, scapegoat, and projection screen.

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The work is performed in whichever language is most common to its audience. So far, Letter to Dance has been performed in English, German, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia

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Together with Deufert & Plischke, Kareth was co-editor of the book “Letters to Dance” (2018): a collection of letters to Dance by people between the ages of 7-92 from Berlin, New York and Tel Aviv.

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A production by Kareth Schaffer with support of Katrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke. Translations by Ilya Noé and Sidhi Vhisatya.

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