Not Just a Little but Completely, Volker Eichelmann




Valeska Gert is one of the seminal figures of twentieth century choreographic and art experimentation, and Not Just a Little but Completely explores that work in incandescent fragments. Dance and photography are always a volatile amalgam here, manoeuvred into their multiple encounters with outbursts of text. A great work of reactivation for someone who, as Valeska Gert said, desired to live even in death.'

- Stephen Barber






‘Shatteringly, glamorously, viscerally, Volker Eichelmann reorders the past, slicing it up through the present and presenting it reassembled for a future performance. Ectoplasmic voices pulse out of the ether, tuned into alien wireless stations. Insular, sonic shards, spinning out on a probe into space, feeding back. Awash with energy and visual electricity, with the movement of dance and an interior where everyone is beautiful, Eichelmann takes refuge in a new genetic, aural-visual identity. A nightclub in heaven, by the utopian sea, and a figure in the dark.’

- Philip Hoare