Ophelia a dance performance

by Josep C Garcia (dance) Bee Chang (voice) Goesta StruveDencher (image) a portrait in movement of Ophelias torment of spurned love, leading her into despair, madness and death fused in Josep Garcia s choreography with themes of gender and identity, vulnerability and (self)performance. created in autumn 2011 in Berlin, Germany, at the Heimathafen Neukölln, Berliner Taschenoper and in the Tiergarten Berlin. from an idea conceived by Goesta StruveDencher and Jimmy Kin Wah Lam; vocal performance created by Bee Chang; camera and editing by G. StruveDencher; sound recording by Nedret Akcaoglu. part of our (Jimmy s Goestas) quest to connect (with) interesting individuals with migration backgrounds living in Berlin, through the trope of interpreting bits of Shakespeare in unexpected, contemporary ways (loosely known as the Shashibiya Project ). a German, Canadian, Chinese, Taiwanese, Spanish, Turkish coproduction