Das Tanzduo

Tedious Work (Paul Norman and Leander Ripchinsky)

Tedious Work imagine they are a band in the middle of a world tour. They imagine they are getting tired of playing their debut album Trennungssongs of Togetherness for person after person after person. The inevitable shift is under way. Audiences can only witness as they update their old material, trying to breathe new life into it and covertly sneaking in new songs, but always in such a way that it doesn’t stop the audience from singing along. Tedious Work are on the cusp, a second-year slump, wading in the murk before a new album must inevitably be played, in full, and without an encore. Tedious Work invite you to look at the world, in the same way as always and see something different.

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Mit der partizipativen Performance:

Trennungssongs of Togetherness: the difficult second album

Come and play separately together with Tedious Work as they introduce you to their difficult second album

You might find yourself encouraged to cheat in order to win a game, or to steal some merch right off the wall, or to use a small electronic keyboard to rank the severity of a list of problems with western society - sounding out your answer for everyone to hear, or or to play an intricate dice trading game which doesn’t accept capitalist strategies, whilst others try to beat themselves in a game of doubles tennis or are just listening to covers of songs by under 5s.

Some of our songs are performed just by Paul and Leander, some with you and others by you alone. There is a musical undercurrent to the work but participating doesn’t require any musical knowledge, in fact inexperience often helps.

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