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liturgia atómica

‘liturgia atómica’ is a stage play that inquires into and brings together various personal and global concerns through circus, dance and physical theater. Focusing on Butoh and Trapeze techniques, it plays with fragmented memories of a traumatic past and their manifestations in the body.

Through a soundscape that combines whispers, music and whale sounds, the show recreates a kind of ritual from all that is hidden, and opens the door to the possibility of diverse encounters with faith and enlightenment – this in the face of the existential void that is presented by multiple contemporary crises: climate change, violence, the pandemic, etc…

Crèdit: Katarina Rothfjell

‘Mariage’

Based on the idea that all stage scripts include people, objects, and actions, Collettivo Collettivom creates a code called a “POA system”. This path of conceptual and scenic exploration leads them to a series of reflections: on the behavior of a group in relation to elected rules; on the process of appropriating a rule; on interactions between different communities that do not have the same rules; and on the search for the moment that leads us out of pre-established agreements.

The aim of the research is to observe all the reactions of adaptation, resistance and personal interpretation that occur in this process of translating theory into reality; in this context, it focuses on everything that cannot be controlled or predicted. Despite the codes and formulas: the human variable.

‘Apus’

The Apus apus (black falcon) is a bird that has adapted extremely well to a life lived completely in the air and can spend nine to ten months flying non-stop. That’s why this bird eats, copulates and even sleeps while flying, and only lands to nest.

Through movement, the techniques of hand to hand and handstand, Guillermo and Enrico investigate how they can stay airborne as long as possible without touching the ground. What relationship does the role of the top mounter have with the air? What about his base? How long can the base carry his colleague without him touching the ground? With these premises, the two artists aim to generate a language of the body between them that extends from but is more than mere technique, and to carry to the end the resistance of their two bodies.

‘La punta del meu nas’

This collective was born from the need to come together as a community to create, develop as artists and be able to investigate the discipline of hand-to-hand. With this new work, they return to their origins to reconstruct a common memory.

Six bodies in play, six worlds. Drifting towards a joint and shared reality. We take care of each other, we behave, we slip, we push each other. Hand-to-hand and singing as an opportunity to change everything and invite you to discover our peculiarities at close quarters.

Picture: Clara Pedrol