Thank You For your Effort, Even If These Requests Cannot Be Fulfilled, 2021/2022

In their first duet for the stage, Rodrigo Garcia Alves and Liz Rosenfeld drag objects, stories, projections, fantasies, and experiments in their desire to understand and create their future hospice together. In this first point of culmination in their ongoing 4 year artistic collaboration, Garcia Alves and Rosenfeld create worlds for each other through experimental dance, text and video practices, which expand and re- collect their stories together and the future each sees for the other.

This hospice is a dune, a neighborhood, an ocean, a meal, a club, an orgy, a cinema, a cruising ground, a long flight, and a lifelong embrace. This hospice is us, them, ours, no ones and yours. This hospice is unknown, and will continue to change.

Hailing from Brazil and the United States, Rodrigo and Liz met in Berlin almost a decade ago, and began to collaborate in their desires, experiences and stories connected to a queer position on death, dying, end of life care, and how they want to feel seen during this time. Together, they expanded these questions and met with different kinds of artistic practitioners who work with death in both pragmatic and creative ways: a palliative doctor, a death doula, a choir director, a bondage expert and a tattoo healer, among others. From these conversations we have built our current hospice, this duet for the present.

Team/ collaborators

PERFORMERS, CONCEPT AND DIRECTION Liz Rosenfeld & Rodrigo Garcia Alves ORIGINAL MUSIC Colin Self LIGHT DESIGN Catalina Fernández COSTUMES AND SET DESIGN Cardo Matos DRAMATURGY Season Butler ARTISTIC ADVISORY Valerie Renay PROP-MAKING Clarisse Canela SEAMSTRESS Dores Maués ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE An*dre Neely BONDAGE EXPERT Dasniya Sommer ARTISTIC SUPPORT/ HOSPICE DOCTOR Christian Küllmei ARTISTIC SUPPORT/ LOGISTICS Maicyra Leão VIDEOGRAPHERS TINT Collective PRODUCER Joseph Wegmann

A production by Liz Rosenfeld and Rodrigo Garcia Alves in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE Berlin and Kampnagel Hamburg. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of #TakeAction. The piece is a continuation of the project HOSPICE, which Liz Rosenfeld and Rodrigo Garcia Alves developed as part of an artistic residency in collaboration between Tanzhaus NRW and Diakonie Düsseldorf. Media partner: taz.die tageszeitung, tipBerlin

Premiered at Sophiensaele Berlin, September, 2021

Additional performances:
Kampnagel, Hamburg, 2022
Tanzhaus nrw- Düsseldorf, 2022