Directing / Costume / Videowork: New York Debut

A Cockroach’s Tarantella and Zolle will be presented at Skirball NYU produced by the International Contemporary Ensemble. This version of the evening-length diptych is a reworking by Du Yun and Roscha A. Säidow of the Lucerne Theater production (October 2021) specifically for the Skirball stage. The two works will be presented jointly at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on April 29-30, 2022.

In continuing to shift and disrupt the operatic field, Du Yun has created two new staged versions of A Cockroach's Tarantella and Zolle with director Roscha A. Säidoq and in collaboration with the International Contemporary Ensemble and Satomi Matsuzaki.

In Zolle, a staged performance, a dead woman wanders through the shadowy space on the border between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked – an immigrant in death as in life. A Cockroach’s Tarantella explores the corporality, human desire, religion, and belonging as the essential quest and the existential dread that all sentient beings experience, cockroach or not. Scored for a chamber ensemble, voice, and spoken word, with Du Yun as the narrator and featuring Satomi Matsuzaki (Deerhoof), the two works together explore humankind’s ubiquitous fascination with movement and alienation, amidst the hope of belonging.

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