Eli Frankel

THE CHOIR is a new performance by Eli Frankel for PLX Tjärö 2025, blending choral
singing, choreography, and dramatic text. The piece explores the historical and artistic power of the choir, as both collective and contrast to the individual, drawing connections between opera, football chants, medieval liturgy, and contemporary music.

Created in collaboration with ten local singers and members of the Hardcore & Punk A
Cappella Choir from Karlshamn, the project engages with themes of belonging, inheritance,
and place. Voices, bodies, and landscapes are central elements, shaped through
generational experience and local dialogue.

Inspired by composers like Steve Reich and Heiner Goebbels, as well as thinkers such as
Heidegger and Guattari, the work moves between classical music, spoken, and rap,
featuring references from Aeschylus to football hooligan ultras and the Kendrick–Drake feud.

THE CHOIR investigates how we relate to others, physically, socially, and artistically and how shared voices might form new identities and shapes within a specific environment.

Eli Frankel is a Swedish performance artist, director, dramaturge, composer, and educator whose practice moves fluidly between theatre, music, performance, pedagogy, and artistic research. With over 20 years of experience in the field, he has worked across institutions and the independent scene in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, including Dramaten, Uppsala Stadsteater, Göteborg Stadsteater, Folkteatern, Dansens Hus, and Volksbühne Berlin. His transdisciplinary approach is informed by a belief in the performing arts as a transformative force, one that not only reflects society but actively shapes it. Eli is an active member of several art collectives such as RadioArt, Alice Collective for Sound & Stage and PLX, where he curates festivals, creates new music-theatre works, and explores the intersection of performance, sound, and politics. He is currently developing new stage productions: The Choir (PLX), The Banality of Evil and Confessions (RadioArt).