TONIGHT

Project by Melanie Jame Wolf 
www.savage-amusement.com/tonight

Tonight is one of the most frequently used words in pop music, and probably the most powerful. When this word is heard, or sung along to and out loud - a sense can open up that tonight, for real, something momentous might occur. 
It might take the shape of a romantic event or a total revolution. But either way, this extraordinary event will bring with it a radical transformation of your life 
as you have lived it up til now.
 
As a lyric, tonight functions as a powerful talisman or portal to an alternate time and place. As a performance, TONIGHT critically explores the potency of this popularly shared poetic of the tonight space. It looks at tonight as a complicated tension between being place of queer becoming – where we imagine and stage other possibilities of ourselves – and a vehicle of exploitation of desire via the pop machine. 

tonight is the sensual world. 
tonight is the promise of an imminent magic moment - the ancient Greek notion of Kairos. 
tonight is an uncontainable temporality, a sticky speculation of desire that spills over. 
It is an act of cultural edging that is both a sanctuary for rehearsing our ideal selves 
and a cruel fiction running on an engine of nostalgia for a space and time that is yet to be.
 
TONIGHT explores the pleasures and perils of the erotics, the poetics, and the politics 
of a shared pop imaginary of exquisite anticipation.
 
Forever's gonna start tonight...

Concept, Text, Video, Direction: Melanie Jame Wolf  
Performed by: Melanie Jame Wolf, Sheena McGrandles, Rodrigo Garcia Alves 
Sound Design: Mieko Suzuki 
Costume Design: Josa Marx 
Light Design: Ariel Efraim Ashbel 
Set Design: Jonas Maria Droste
Outside Eyes: Sharon Smith, Peaches Assistant: Evan Loxton 
Production: Joseph Wegmann / björn & björn