Love Me While I’m Here (2023)

A Ballet for Seven Instruments

22 minutes

  1. Part One

  2. Part Two

  3. Part Three

 

Program Notes

Inspired by Kathrin Linkersdorff’s ephemeral eco art, Love me while I’m here, a new commission for BalletCollective created by Omar Román De Jesús (choreographer) in collaboration with Robert Honstein (composer) serves as a physical love letter between people, among environments, and within oneself. The dance considers the human body as an organic entity — one subject to decomposition, bound by time, and constantly changing. The dance considers Linkersdorff’s process of removing the pigment from flowers as they dry then reintroducing the color elsewhere in concentrated, liquid form. Suspended in a sea of swirling blues, purples, and reds; the plants may be bleeding, daydreaming, intoxicated, or dancing. Love me while I’m here draws on this metaphor of possibility, taking the many shades of human relationship from their homes inside the body and giving them space to run wild. Romantic, sensual, and abstract, this is a dance about relinquishing control and questioning what might happen if thoughts could escape the thinker, no longer bound by the rules of decorum or decay.

‘Love me while I’m here’ was commisisoned by Ballet Collective and premiered October 31, 2023 at Trinity Commons by Ballet Collective with choreography by Omar Román De Jesús.

Image of Kennedy Targosz, Ruby Lister, David Gabriel, Devin Alberda and Sebastián Villarini-Vélez in Love me while I’m here by Brendon Cook/BFA.com

Ruby Lister and David Garcia in “Love Me While I’m Here.” Photo © Whitney Browne.

Performances

October 31-November 2, 2023 | Trinity Commons, NYC, NY. BalletCollective.