Leah Marojević x Mass Hysteria Collective - "1-800-LONGING4IT"

1-800-LONGING4IT is a late-night, 1 on 1 live performance held over the phone. In a time when disembodied intimacy and loneliness soar across our present into the foreseeable, this work appropriates the format of phone sex hotlines and personal ads in one-on-one night time performances. The encounters comprise of fictional fantasies that serve to queer normative power roles, to prioritise care, pleasure and dreaming, to momentarily release performer and audience from reality.

Problematising how virtual connection and female bodies are consumed, suspended within the imaginative space between two bodies. In collaboration with Leah Marojevic, a contemporary dance artist who performs, makes performance, writes, teaches, directs and artistically supports other dance makers.

Choreography: Leah Marojević

Commissioned by: Mass Hysteria Collective 

Realised in collaboration with and performed by: Mass Hysteria Collective (Hannah Aebi, Dominique Baker, Monika Błaszczak, Jennie Boultbee, Willa Faulkner, Julia Kayser, Sophie Page, Marlen Pflueger, Rebecca Piersanti, Nina Richard, Katie Serridge, Lydia Walker)

Artworks: James St Findlay

Thanks to guest artists: Jadeya, Samir Kennedy, Sindri Runudde & Colette Sadler

Thanks to the sponsor: Margaret

Premiered 6th February 2021 at Present Futures Digital CCA Glasgow (curated by Colette Sadler & produced by Feral)

Supported by Arts Council England