Concept, choreography, performance: Sheena McGrandles / Co-choreography, performance: Eli Cohen / Music: Tot Onyx / Light design: Hanna Kritten Tangsoo / Costume and set: Evan Loxton / Dramaturgy: Louise Trueheart / Choreographic outside eye: Maya Weinberg / Creative production: Saskia Schoenmaker
Sheena McGrandles
all over you
- Performance
- Dance
approx. 60 mins.
On a deep purple carpet, partner dances take shape and come undone, as joy and pleasure take on darker tones. In “all over you”, Sheena McGrandles and Eli Cohen explore forms of lesbian eroticism and desire, navigating the tensions between attraction, hesitation and refusal.
“all over you” explores lesbian possibility through intimate queer friendships and queer literary forms: circular, porous, delightfully volatile. Partner dances emerge and fray. Joy and pleasure take on darker tones as the work presses deeper into what is already shared, finding ways to want anew.
On a stage covered in deep purple carpet, danced to the music of Japanese sound artist Tot Onyx, the intensely physical duet “all over you” between Sheena McGrandles and Eli Cohen spirals through materially vulnerable forms: tightly bound, yet bubbling up and spilling over. Their bodies cannot hold themselves in.
Together, they navigate intensities, touches, and antagonisms, asking which forms carry which kinds of desire and where. Agency shifts between them as they yield and switch, tracing the surfaces both fleshy and social that hold them together or keep them apart. Lingering in the paradox of wanting across gaps, of desire inside delays, irresolution, and historical rupture, following their acclaimed duet “as long as you want”, they continue their study on lesbian erotics of form and lesbian forms of desire.
“all over you” tastes sweet precisely where it hurts and hurts precisely where it is most alive.
Team
Dates
Current
Price: 25 €, reduced 15 €
Credits
Production: Sheena McGrandles. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Fonds Darstellende Künste.
Location
HAU3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 BerlinHAU3 unfortunately is not barrier-free. Access to the theatre is via a stairwell (3rd floor). If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or email us at tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
