The Brick presents
Re-Inventing Love
by Marija Krtolica
November 26 and 27 8pm

Re-Inventing Love sources from the writing of the philosopher Alain Badiou and surrealist poetry to create an embodied poetics. Dramatic pathos, irony, moments of isolated beauty from everyday urban life, and bold kinetic expression combine to create startling scenes.

“Re-Inventing Love” revolves around amorous relationships at the time of a socio-economic crisis. The starting point is love as a truth procedure through which we can get to know ourselves, and construct long lasting connections. The work problematises romantic desire by addressing repression, political inequalities, and difference seen through prism of the philosophical concept of love. “Re-Inventing Love” is inspired by the writing of the philosopher Alain Badiou, and surrealist poetry. Its primary medium is movement which turns literal poetic tropes, and opens up a pathway for re-thinking the concept of love, while purposefully bumping into its troubling, humorous and perplexing manifestations.

The work is made in collaboration with the performers and artists:

Julie Fotheringham

Michael Mangieri

Dustin Maxwell

Jason Ciaccio

Marija Krtolica

“These artists are co-creators. They have participated in the choreographic process, discussions, and thematic explorations. I am very grateful to Theresa Burchheister for inviting us to perform “Re-Inventing Love” at The Brick. I would like to thank Nuria Nono Schoenberg from the Luigi Nono Archives in Venice for advising me to develop a section of “Re-Inventing Love” to the music by the avant-garde composer and left wing thinker, Luigi Nono: ‘The Forest is Young and Full of Life.'” – Marija Krtolica

The language heard in “Re-Inventing Love” includes writings by Apollinaire, Alain Badiou, Anne Carson, René Char, Michel Foucault, Danilo Kiš, Arthur Rimbaud, Raymond Roussel, and Nathalie Sarraute.

***Downtown Brooklyn Rehearsal Residency Initiative provided free rehearsal space in 2020 and 2021