We are proud to announce that the Gotham Girls Jeerleader Squat will participate in our project! We will film on Sunday, May 20th 2012, in Manhattan.
Thank you to: Katrina del Mar, Suzie Hotrod and Little Mary Switchblade!
On Monday, May 14th we were invited to film at LaValle Football Stadium, on campus at Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY.
Thanks go out to head coach Lenée Passiglia, maintenance technician Chris Cepeda, team captain Victoria Hargreaves and the Stony Brook Cheerleading Team for their great support!
Today’s auditions went great and we found 4 talented young women to cheer for our project.
On Friday, May 11th, we will be auditioning women with cheerleading experience age 18 to 24 again, at a location in the near Union Square in NYC. If you are interested, please contact:
DelMarvelous Productions & Casting
We are auditioning women with cheerleading experience age 18 to 24 on Monday morning, May 7th at a location in the near Union Square in NYC. If you are interested, please contact:
We are extremely happy to announce that for Elianna Renner’s installation “Cheerleading” we will be working with an excellent cheerleading team: Stony Brook Cheerleading!
Big thanks go out to:
Marion Bösen, Stephanie Dinkins and Lenée Passiglia.
Elianna Renner’s multi media approach circles around performance and audio-visual installation, which are sometimes combined with film and photography. Her work is based on women’s oral history and has in the past circled around the recovery of her own family’s history. In her work, Elianna Renner likes telling stories that are linked to everyday life and contain biographical elements. Taking a subjective stance on history, she reinvents moments that seem to be taken out of reality, only to slightly bend them into fiction. This technique creates situations that are shifting between objectivity and subjectivity, and which are humorous and thought provoking at the same time.
In an undefined location a young man seems to be praying in front of a wall. Connotations to the wailing wall and orthodox Jewish religious rituals are being invoked. At second glance, the man is not wearing the traditional phylacteries, but a profane bicycle tire is wrapped around his arm.
Being stuck in a vehicle with a stranger can be uncomfortable – especially when you are Jewish and the other person is Palestinian. Listen closely to how one can avoid the pitfalls of conversation driving down the German Autobahn while the other ponders on the advantages of suicide bombing to sidestep his advancing mid life crisis.
In an empty space, resembling a doctor’s waiting room, MP3 players and headphones await the visitors. The story unfolds for almost half an hour trying to find an answer to the question whether or not the father of the speaker survived being deported to a concentration camp as a 4 year old.
At a historical site an almemar is evoked, facing the wall of an empty basement. On the pages of the book photographies of random places underline the narrated incidents from a trip to Granada, which culminate in the story of the Sephardim. Our identities and bodies are shaped by the historical narratives that are intertwined with the present.
Solomon & Co is taking a closer look at the passing on of memory and biographical knowledge in matrilinear family structures. Through association games surprising similarities of thinking are unravelled between a mother and her daughter.
