Elettra de Salvo

Vita

Actress and performance artist
Doctorate in theatre studies
Lives in Berlin and Frankfurt
Founded E.d.S. Productions in 1999
Independent projects for the past 16 years,
as a solo artist as well as with artists from other areas.
National and international touring


Short selection of works
2005/2006 Some others and me - Solo for Elettra de Salvo
Choreographers: Prue Lang, Jochen Roller, Celestine Hennermann
a co-production of Hebbel-am-Ufer Berlin with Künstlerhaus Mouson Frankfurt
2004 autoreverse - Solo for 11 men performative installation
Dock 11 Berlin
February 2004 Solo - guest performance in New York
Cooperation with Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York
2003 I want to live even if am dead - an evening for Valeska Gert
In collaboration with Susanne Foellmer and Dock 11 Berlin
  For sale - dancesolo by Lara Martelli; artistic collaboration
A production of Choreographisches Zentrum P.A.C.T. Essen
  Pane al Pane - dinner performance for 80 guests
Cooperation with Istituto Italiano di Cultura Berlino
2002 Gender - a project by Felix Ruckert; Dock 11 Berlin
  Secret Service - a project by Felix Ruckert; Dock 11 Berlin
  Pour le Marquis - performance for the De Sade series organised by Juliettes Literatursalon Berlin
collaboration: Felix Ruckert
2001 Intervenus - Video Installation-Performance
by Prue Lang (Company WilliamForsythe),
Theater am Turm, Frankfurt/M
2000 - 2001 OUT OF ORDER
Performance with 40 women
Berlin, Festival Surreale, Dock 11,
Braunschweig, Art School, class of Marina Abramovic,
Frankfurt/M, mulpha klima transformfarm,
Strasbourg, Festival avant les mouches, Academie des arts decoratifs
  Fleisch wucherte rum (flesh proliferated all over)
homage to Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
on the occasion of his 60th birthday
and 25th anniversary of his death,
a co-production with Comune di Roma,
Centro Petralata Rome
and Goethe Institut Rome,
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin
and Italian Culture Institute Berlin
  Ring - a performance by Felix Ruckert, choreographer, (Munich, Berlin, Rome)
April 2000 Stillen (Silences) an installation by Felix Ruckert, (dock 11, Berlin)
(Dock 11, Berlin)
February 2000 Italians a performance based on a text by
Gertrude Stein,
in collaboration with Marcel Daemgen
electronics musician (Romanfabrik - Frankfurt/M)
1999/2000 Das Zimmer und die Zeit, sitting in my room in front of the time
a solo performance from Gertrude Stein's "A Birthday Book"
Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt a. Main,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
1997-1999 Die Zunge im Ohr (the tongue in the ear)
erotic literature performance
at Mousonturm, Frankfurt a. Main, Sophiensaele, Berlin
1998 "Ich will leben auch wenn ich tot bin"
(I want to live even if am dead)

festival, for the 20th anniversary of Valeska Gert's death,
in co-operation with the Sophiensaele Berlin,
Galerie am Scheunenviertel, Kino Nickelodeon (Berlin)
1996 - 1998 Artistic director of the Teatro Italiano Frankfurt
1992 Bleiche weiße Leiche (pale white corpse)
A solo performance paying homage to Valeska Gert
(Mousonturm, Frankfurt a. Main)

Co-productions with:
Ministry of Science and Art Hessia
Municipal Department for Science and Arts, Frankfurt
Cultural Department Comune di Roma
Goethe Institute Rome
Centro Ricerche Musicali,
Italian Cultural Institutes Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg,München, Cologne
E.d.S. Productions was invited to festivals including:
Tanz im August / Berlin
Dance and Theatre Festival Oriente Occidente, Rovereto, Italy
Space Hotel, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Rhizom, Theatre Festival, Moers
Berliner Surreale
Festival Avant les Mouches, Strasbourg
Planning:
A new solo-performance directed by Jochen Roller
based on the material of the 2nd part of "some others and me"
for Kampnagel Hamburg / February 2007

Singing (working title)
Performance Video-Installation inbetween
vocal cords and labias, Berlin / Frankfurt

Third installation for the trilogy "women & men"