About
Das Sofortvergnügen (THE INSTANT PLEASURE) is a dance-theatre-spectacle about insatiable desires, [in]convenience, and patience created and performed by me and Cosimo Pori.
The script is a collage of personal anecdotes, contradictory ideas, memes, audio sourced from silly TikTok & YouTube videos, TV/film, contemporary dance, and more, created using HOTGLUE—an open source website publishing tool.
Read about our process for creating the show on my blog
Read about the show in Kyle Turner's essay for INTO
Development History
September 2021: 20-minute workshop of Das Sofortvergnügen was performed in The Brick Theater's ?!: New Works Festival
October 2021: Encore livestream at The Brick with Zanni Productions thanks to a City Arts Corp Grant
March 2022: New material performed at The Brick as a part of the SALON series
June 2022: Two in-process performances at The Tank as a part of PrideFest
January 2023: Premiere of completed full-length version of the show as a part of the 2023 Exponential Festival at Life World
September 2023: Performance of show in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, produced by Cannonball at Fidget Space