THE LAB: Artist and Audience Development
Bathe in wine, bathe in milk,
Bathe in horse broth, bathe in silk.
Ice, steam, sauna, spring—
Let your body sizzle and sting.
If you’re a bird: you use dust!
If a snail: a puddle’s a must.
Come one, come all, we must get clean.
Elly the Batheness of Berlin
Invites you to her bathing dream.
Bathing is glorious: water grants daily rebirth, soap frees us from what want to leave behind. Elly the Batheness of Berlin is enamored with it—in tubs, hammams, mountain springs or saunas; with a sponge, a brush, hands or a stone.
All bathers are welcome to this work-in-progress lecture-performance exploring:
What is a bath? What is bathing? A historical, a cultural, a social, an artistic and an American bath; and even bathing across species!
Bathing has deep waters—with topics like PURITY, FERTILITY, (RE)BIRTH, HYGIENE, OLFACTION, MODESTY and the FEMALE DOMAIN. Elly the Batheness of Berlin is going deep into bathing lore and invites you to join.
In 2026, bad ideas are great again!
Followed by a post-performance discussion
- Sat, January 17, 2026 | 8pmMain Stage
Elly Jarvis thinks play is an emancipatory and transcendental act. Her work is almost always interactive and approachable, touching on deep or difficult topics with wit and compassion. For her, theater is a vessel for endless curiosity, which pushes her to find aesthetic forms and do good research. Some of her recent plays are Blaupause (FELD Theater), Boysick (a reinterpretation of Woyzeck at Berliner Ensemble) and Subject: You/Me/Us (Berliner Ring Theater) about her and her queer grandpa.