Rykena/Jüngst: Stripping Bolero

Drawing inspiration from Maurice Ravel’s musical composition *Boléro*—which is at once a continuous crescendo and pure ecstasy—Rykena/Jüngst embarks on a playful and sensual exploration of choreographic forms of the climax in her new production, *Stripping Bolero *.

The piece plays with climaxes, breaks them down, reassembles them, and weaves in elements from well-known dramas, the history of dance, and the staging of climaxes in striptease. Through dance, sign language, sign language poetry, audio description, and erotic storytelling, a multisensory performance emerges in which teasing and sensuality become the aesthetics of access and invitation: The theatrical space intensifies; tension is sustained and then released; climaxes shift; bodies tumble to the floor or tell stories in reverse.