Premiere 92nd Street Y in New York March 6th 2019

 Love in Fragments bring the art forms – and audiences of - music, visual arts, dance, and theater to explore love in all its fragmented components. It dives into the jungle of love - the good, bad and the ugly. Two performers and two musicians leave their comfort zones in order to interact with one another in unexpected ways. This search for a common, yet undiscovered language directly involves the inner workings of a stage sculpture.

The word ‘fragment’ has connotations of: ‘a part broken off or detached’, ‘isolated, unfitted or incomplete’. As a verb, ‘to collapse or break into fragments, disintegrate, divide, disunify’. These words provoke associations that are active, destructive, explosive and sometimes desperate. Love in Fragments, is an observation of love in its single components - to see love being gutted, taken apart and examined like a puzzle. 

The artists shine a light on these fragments and try to understand - musically, physically and visually - how they belong, or belonged, together. Love is an emotion, and as such it allows us to reflect our own experiences and relate to others within our society. This leads to a shared past that enables us to project a shared future. Individuals who project ideas of love within society work towards a joint goal; a goal that necessitates freedom of mind, freedom of speech and the freedom to disagree and speak up.

Originally inspired by Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s Discourse” Love in Fragments features music from Bach to Jörg Widmann.

The cellist Alban Gerhardt,  the violinist Gergana Gergova and the dancer Dan Pelleg undertake this adventure with the choreographer Sommer Ulrickson and sculptor Alexander Polzin.