Liquid Loft - Stranger Than Paradise

This hybrid, subtle, futuristic chamber play for eight performers and an investigative camera has little in common aesthetically with Jim Jarmusch’s 1980s indie classic Stranger Than Paradise. Nonetheless, the cinema has been a type of communicating vessel for Chris Haring and his avant-garde dance project Liquid Loft since its founding in 2005: not only has Liquid Loft worked out several choreographies for special cinematic meditations in collaboration with the filmmaker Mara Mattuschka (from Legal Errorist, 2005, to Burning Palace, 2014), but also appearing throughout the compagnie’s output are allusions to maverick directors, such as Andy Warhol (in the Imploding...