Over the last few years I‘ve developed a practice called bedfold reading. It is aimed at people who spend, as for myself, a lot of time in bed and have built up a special relationship with it. People with chronic or mental illness, disabilities or the people around them, who are permanently in bed or in recurring episodes – however brief they may be.

We approach bedfolds with rituals, magic tricks and choreographies that make them appear as a magical landscape: our unconscious needs and perception of our physical presence and temporality in bed. Feelings and movements without which we could not continue.

In addition to all the people, folds, bodies in bed mentioned here, who have put so much love and work into the readings, I would like to thank the following people for their wonderful collaboration in developing the bedfold readings:

Nora Schneider for production
Eva Königshofen for dramaturgy
Spencer Kennard for magic consulting
René Alejandro Huari Mateus for choreography consulting
Xava Kasimir Mikosch for the pictures

And many, many special thanks to
Toni Groß und Angela Alves, Leo Naomi Baur, Nadja Dias, Elli Klein, Diana Paiva, Juli Reinartz, Arne Schirmel, Simone Willeit und Team vom Uferstudio, Theresa Zwerschke

‘bedfold reading’ is a project by Jeanne Eschert. Supported as part of Next Steps, a programme by Bureau Ritter to strengthen dance professionals in Hessen. Funded by the Crespo Foundation.