ElseWhere Rhapsody - Jen Rosenblit

‘From the stage where I stand, I look at my audience: their tears, their astonished looks, their terror even, must respond to my words’ confided the eminent rhapsode Plato to Socrates. This concept of the actor-spectator relationship resonates with the frontality of Elsewhere Rhapsody, a show that puts desire at the centre. Ancient motifs of erotic art, revisited through a queer prism, are taken over by the performers, who construct an elsewhere in sight, at the heart of a landscape of crumbling charm. The mechanism of insatiable desire is repeated ad infinitum. Promises and failures have followed one another since the dawn of time and for all eternity. Should we continue? Or give up? Jen Rosenblit and her acolytes impress with their charisma, their silhouettes and the singular energy they exude. Through architecture, flesh, philosophy and pictoriality, the scenic community attempts to become one in the midst of impossible spaces, deploying their collective aura.