How close does something have to happen before you can feel it?
This work emerges from a question, from a growing sense of distance in a world where the media constantly inundate us with horrific events. An endless stream of images, delivered at high speed and without context.
Choreographer Amparo González Sola brings these questions back to small gestures. She invites us to see gestures as gateways or possible connections. Together with the performers, she explores how gestures carry memories by embodying them, slowing them down, freezing them, and reshaping them. Which pasts and futures are hidden within them? How is a gesture in one body connected to other gestures, carried by other bodies?
The work examines the many relationships between gaze, distance, and proximity, and the role they play in experiencing and bearing witness. During the performance, audience and performers share the space, without fixed distances and always visible to one another.
Credits
performance and research Rita Bifulco, Amador Alina Folini, Leandro de Souza, Amparo González Sola sound design Nahuel Cano light design Vinny Jones dramaturgical advice Bek Berger production Sanne Jacobs – Dansateliers concept and direction Amparo González Sola co-production Dansateliers, Spring Performing Arts Festival, Frascati Producties support BAU AIR (NL), Greenhouse (NL), ROOMS Festival (NL), workspacebrussels (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT).
Image: Alex Heuvink
