“Rachel Jendrzejewski & SuperGroup have the very difficult task of "trying to tell a story with no chance of success"—that of the Earth's future and our own. In a story in which we may too easily succumb to helplessness or fear, this play takes a compassionate approach that examines our discomfort and calls us into "running and jumping and recognizing each other." Through dance, music, visual art, and a participatory audience, the performers seek to bring us back into conversation with our body, with other bodies, with the body of the Earth. A physical score for movement guides each potential iteration of this performance to allow for mourning, for embarrassment and admission, for growth. The piece is a celebration of our togetherness, an acknowledgment of all we do not know. Why even call it a performance? This is an act of living. "You can take a minute to tune in. Listen." And you should. Just long enough to awaken your body, awaken your voice.”— Abigail Zimmer, poet & author of girls their tongues

“This visionary, exemplary book feels like the lovechild of Caryl Churchill and Deborah Hay. A document that is at once a dance, a play, an epic poem and a graphic novel, it provides a new way of thinking through performance at the beginning of the end of the world.” — Miguel Gutierrez, choreographer & author of When You Rise Up

“Words and image hover in a suspense of whimsy and joy, with the understanding that whimsy is also a form of mortal anxiety and theodicy is joy's visa. The printed event is spacious, generous, and playful—also beautifully instrumental in the ways it is framed and illuminated. One smells the Flapjacks of Creativity in the traces here of process: love, compassion and fellowship reading clearly. A process of making comes alive and provokes more making in responsive ripples.

Politically, the piece is clear eyed about rut peel parches and the squandering ooze, while ultimately praising the glory of dappled things in their dappling, dappling, dappling. Esthetically, here is smart, electric instress, recalling a strong inscape and calling for new.

Notes:

1. The document is a lake's capture of a leaf on its tension, and the delicate tremors radiant therefrom.
2. It is all highly personal.
3. There are ligaments.

— Erik Ehn, playwright & author of The Saint Plays

Rachel Jendrzejewski is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who frequently collaborates with choreographers, musicians, and visual artists to explore new performative vocabularies. Her projects have been developed and/or presented by Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Playwrights' Center, Hair+Nails Gallery, Padua Playwrights, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Tricklock Company, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, MASS MoCA, and ICA/Boston, among others. Published works include In Which _______ and Others Discover the End, a collaboration with SuperGroup (Plays Inverse); encyclopedia (Spout Press); Amber (in I Might Be the Person You Are Talking To: Short Plays from the Los Angeles Underground, Padua Playwrights); and, forthcoming, MERONYMY (53rd State Press). Rachel is a 2023-24 Playwrights’ Center McKnight Fellow and a Co-Artistic Director at Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis. MFA Playwriting, Brown University.

SuperGroup is the Minneapolis-based performance collaboration of Erin Search-Wells, Sam Johnson, and Jeffrey Wells. Since forming in 2007, SuperGroup has created a variety of performance work, including full-evening dance / theater pieces, durational encounters in public spaces, and short queer cabaret performances across the Twin Cities and nationally. SuperGroup’s work has been supported through commissions from the Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, and the Southern Theater, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. They received a McKnight Choreography Fellowship in 2017. As independent artists, the three members of SuperGroup perform, write, direct, choreograph, teach, and design in many performance permutations.