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I Offer Myself To Thee was Jeremy Wade’s first large-scale solo incorporating text, song, dance, and performed at the premiere evening of the 10-Day International Festival he curated with Meg Stuart. This grand gesture provided an excitable and sensitive space to process limit, and near death experiences. This is hallucinogenic theatre about the body’s relationship to the untenable, the great void and the grain of sand in the vastness of empty space.

"I Offer Myself to Thee" was a tightrope walk between surrender and control— emphasizing the fragility of live performance, and the delicate exchange that can occur between performer and audience. The paradox of surrender is the focus on stage: to movement material, to habits as a performer, to the audience as well as the theatrical machinery.
"I can see it now, a celestial event.
Is that consciousness?
Am I, Am I...? What am I thinking?
No words, no words. No words to describe.
Help me!!
I'm glad to see you because the world is really fucked up and all these objects are part of that
We are the people
What are these things out there?
There's something moving behind my hand, there's something moving!"
Anonymous Boy on a trip on Salvia Divinorum

“Naked, naked, naked, the supremacy of the feather, I do grant myself, I fail every conversation, just around the corner, where flowers pick all petals of oneself, where flowers pick all the petals of oneself. "Things do end Ha ha ha“
Baltazar Castor for Jeremy Wade
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Choreography and Performance 

Jeremy Wade
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Text  

Baltazar Castor and Jeremy Wade / 

Music 

Brendan Dougherty, Keith O’Brien / 

Light Design 

Andreas Harder / 

Set Design 

Anke Philipp / 

Costume 

Nadine Grellinger / 

Dramaturgy 

Eike Wittrock / 

Production/Organization 

Barbara Greiner / 

Production Assistant 

Lisa Audouin

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Coproducers: Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; CCN Franche-Comté Belfort (residency) – The residency takes part in the frame of FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance), coordinated and supported by the Services Culturels de l'Ambassade de France; FACE (French American Cultural Exchange); The New England Foundation for the Arts/ National Dance Project with the support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation; imagetanz/brut Wien; and Akademie der Künste Berlin/Stipendiatenprogramm der Jungen Akademie

Thanks to Diana Gadish, Eugene Rhodes, Tomi Paasonen
Supported by: Départs Network with the support of the European Commission in the fram of the Culture 2000 Program.