Sei Solo: You’re Alone? is a collaborative performance between internationally renowned artists: musician and AWE Artistic Director Benjamin Baker, and genre-bending dancers Jahra Wasasala and Ooshcon (CONJAH). Sei Solo: You’re Alone? was originally presented by At World’s Edge Festival.

Sei Solo: You’re Alone? is a Violin and Dance performance reimagining Bach’s second solo violin partita, with the interspersion of modern solo violin works by NZ composers Karlo Margetić and Gareth Farr. Performers Jahra Wasasala and ooshcon explore the vast terrain of these violin works, as they travel between beginnings and endings, emotive imagery, rapturous relationships and unexpected creatures.
Through centuries of musical language and cultures of dance, Sei Solo: You’re Alone? reminds us that in the end, we are all we have.

“..There was, in addition, something deeply moving about hearing Bach’s work speak across the centuries to dance forms forged on the streets of twenty-first century America. And while the dance elements had a clear narrative arc, the performance resisted any suggestion of easy answers – an artistic choice entirely appropriate to both Bach, the perfection of whose work suggests something beyond resolution, and to a subject that ultimately leaves us all hanging.”

— Max Rashbrooke, The Post (2025)
www.thepost.co.nz/culture/360872469/orchestra-wellington-explores-isolation-through-bach-and-street-dance

COMPOSER RUNNING ORDER
Bach Partita No.2 - Allemande & Courante
Karlo Margetić On an Imaginary Folk Song
Bach Partita No.2 - Sarabande & Gigue
Gareth Farr - Wakatipu
Bach Partita No.2 - Chaconne

Running time: 45mins


PERFORMERS / DIRECTORS
Benjamin Baker - Violin
CONJAH - Jahra Wasasala & ooshcon

PERFORMANCE HISTORY
13 October 2023 - At World’s Edge Festival
Te Atamira Whakatipu, Tahuna (Queenstown), Aotearoa
Presented by At World’s Edge (AWE)

12 January 2025 - APAP Showcase
DiMenna Centre, New York City, Lenape Territory, U.S.A
Presented by Young Concert Artists NYC

28 October 2025 - Orchestra Wellington
Prefab Hall, Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa
Presented by Orchestra Wellngton

Sei Solo: You’re Not Alone? development rehearsals (2023)

For booking enquiries: benbaker.violin@gmail.com