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.
The next performance of Gertrud will be at The Patrick Centre in Birmingham as part of British Dance Exchange on 6 February 2010 at 12pm. Gertrud was selected as one of five finalists for the The Place Prize 2008 sponsored by Bloomberg, and premiered 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
