Anorak new space opening with Rosa Aiello, Dylan Aiello & friends 
doors 8pm, performance 8:30pm.
Afterparty with DJ sets by Eleni Poulou and Pitt Wenninger.

On the opening night of anorak’s new space in Berlin-Tempelhof, we are proud to present LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising, a collaboration by artist and filmmaker Rosa Aiello and actor and theatremaker Dylan Aiello. Building on a lifetime relationship between them, LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising stages the slippery dynamics of testing love, attention-seeking, and pushing past thresholds of social tolerance as potentially meaningful forms of connection, actions to be treated without contempt: a comedy of errors rather than a tragedy of failures. Short comic routines called ‘Lazzi,’ which acted as performance units in Renaissance Commedia dell’Arte theatre to construct, break into, and unravel plots, serve as a means to destabilise the roles we take on as friends, lovers, performers, bosses, and siblings, as well as the power dynamics at play in these roles. As a love test, this collaboratively developed piece puts a spotlight on the urge to act, to control, to make something happen. Stitching together film, live performance, and song, LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising is a variety show, an ecstatic conversation, a road trip, a succession of interruptions, charged with expectation. 

The event will also feature film footage by Laura Langer and filmed appearances by Arianna Calgaro, Leslie Ewen, Victor Jacono, Maya Misfud, Tori Sasso-Briggs, Scarlett Stitt, Katherine Ward, and others.