A performed conversation through time
Gertrud is a solo performance project. It is an imagined and performed conversation through time between the Austrian expressionist choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser (1890–1959) and Simon Ellis (1968–): a solo performer-choreographer.
Gertrud was performed in early February 2010 at The Patrick Centre in Birmingham as part of British Dance Edition. It was one of five finalists for the The Place Prize 2008 sponsored by Bloomberg, and premièred at The Place in September 2008.
- Performance, choreography, script and sound: Simon Ellis
- Light: Helen Cain
- Choreographic assistant: Amy Howard
- Music: Sergei Rachmaninov, Elegie In E Flat Minor, Op. 3, No. 1
- Voice: English spoken by Shona Dunlop-MacTavish
- Voice: German translated from English and spoken by Susie Bittner
- Resources: Hilary Napier, Shona Dunlop-MacTavish, Tacita Dean & Jeremy Millar, Rainer Maria Rilke, Laura Marks, Thomas Hardy, Kristine Marx, Ulric Neisser, William Wordsworth, Stefan Zweig, A.S. Byatt, St Augustine
- Thanks: Magda Brunner, Eddie Nixon, Matthew Smith, Carol Brown, Rebecca Ellis-Pedersen, Mel Davis, Lil Boyce, Clare Dyson, Mark Dyson, Vida Midgelow, Jane Bacon, Shona Dunlop-MacTavish, Susie Bittner, Keren Kossow, Nigel Jenkins & Karrie Orth
