The Clearing 

2019

"The choreographer and performer Jeremy Wade is part of the avant-garde of the Berlin dance and performance scene since 2007. His pieces are often desolate and provocative, pushing to the limits of what can be shown and said. This time around in “The Clearing,” Jeremy Wade has created a three-act post-apocalyptic horror trip that is overblown, bizarre and absurd, with him himself as a garbage-busting android, a tragic sufferer and a scrappy bird drag queen performing on a sort of apocalypse death ship. A work of science-fiction in three acts as a mirror image of our present, which has always been his concern in his plays. He diagnoses our modernity, stages an analysis of our lives in neoliberalism and its consequences. In that regard, the title "The Clearing" may also be understood as purge and purification. He is deeply concerned with an ethic of care, empathy and responsibility, forms of cooperation that seem to be losing value in performance-optimized society. The Clearing reveals a series of queer procedures, characters and affective conceptions of space driven by the compositional math of musician Marc Lohr. This is a hallucinogenic provocation where love, difficult hope, humor and perversity are all forces that weave a world together after incomprehensible loss.” Frank Schmidt