Les Petites Morts: i hope you die soon (2013) 

"death is everywhere, just breathe yourself into it."

Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot’s work focuses on the ‘debordering’ of the body. Their starting point is the dissolution of the self. How can one stop ‘I-ing’? And in their attempt to do so, how far beyond intimacy does it bring them and what new forms of co-existence will emerge. With “Les Petites Morts – i hope you die soon” Gradinger and Schubot bring this aspect to another level and raise the paradoxical question of how two individuals can die together on stage. This paradox is used as the starting point to develop a movement language that aims at the disappearance of one’s own body whilst still remaining on the stage. Is it possible to overcome the solitude of death through unconditional togetherness? Can we transform the fear of dying into acceptance or even into something that longs to die? “i hope you die soon” is the first part of the project “Les Petites Morts”.

Choreography/Performance: Jared Gradinger, Angela Schubot
Music: Tian Rotteveel
Lighting design: Andreas Harder
Artistic collaboration: Sigal Zouk
Costume: Heidi Lunaire
Photo: BenJakon
Press & production: björn & björn
Production: Angela Schubot, Jared Gradinger.
Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Südpol Luzern, Les Grandes Traversées and the Ballet de l’Opera national du Rhin – Centre choré-graphique national. Made possible by funding from the Capital Cultural Fund.
Premiere: 23.1.2013, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1)