Dogs of Love

A Queer Quantum Love Story

Playing times

Duration

60 Min.

Venue

You can see two treadmills opposite each other on which one person is running, the two people are running towards each other. The background is black, the two persons are illuminated in purple and blue

What distinguishes queer love? In their performance, Once We Were Islands examines the intimate connection between two people that outlasts time and space. Beginning from their own love for each other in the here and now, the two distance themselves from each over the course of the performance and move through time. Following virtual paths in the future and/or the past, they experience and live through stories of queer togetherness that are both real as well as fictional.

Cast

Direction, Text, Performance, Design: Richard Aslan, Chris Gylee
Light design: Elliott Cennetoglu
Music, sound design: Elie Gregory
Photography: Julian Hemelberg
Production management: ehrliche arbeit – Freies Kulturbüro
Press: Nora Gores, Kerstin Böttcher
Graphic: Kruse & Müller

Credits

A production by ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost. Funed by Berliner Senatsverwaltung for Culture and Europa. Kindly supported by the Archive of the Gay Museum and NOHrD.

Trailer "Dogs of Love"

An accompanying book — Dogs of Love: a guide to manifesting Queer Epic Poems in the body

The book is published by Circadian Books (2020). The book is conceived as a practical guide to the reader, and also includes the full performance script of Dogs of Love. Copies are available to purchase at circadian.co/product/dogs-of-love/ and at www.thisisunbound.co.uk/products/dogs-of-love-manifesting-queer-histories-in-the-body

A full length documentation film of Dogs of Love is available to view. If you are a festival or venue programmer please email us at info [at] oncewewereislands.com