A poetic documentation of dance performance installation "La compañia", a virtual event performed on 10-11 April 2020. Credits: Fernanda Gonzalez Morales Ann...
LA COMPAÑÍA
April 2020, Amsterdam, NL.
Dance Performance Installation
Site specific
Duration: 2 day live event (virtual attendance)
Departing from the idea of being in company this 2 day virtual event was an invitation to attend to the process, installation and dance performance “La Compañia.” In close collaboration with artists from different disciplines we explored what being together might be in times of Coronavirus and the role dance might have in this scenario of isolation and social distancing. For two days we built an audiovisual installation, shared our movement practice and performed together with the audience in a virtual space.
This piece is a continuation of “La Compañia de la Ternura Radical” a dance company open for public participation that aims to explore strategies for expanding the functions of a traditional dance company form.
Credits: Fernanda Gonzalez Morales (co-creator and performer), Anna Riley Shepard (co-creator and performer), Fernando Diaz Smith (technical advisor), Cecilia de los Santos (voice over), Macarena de Arrigunaga and Valeria Villalobos (co-writers), Joao da Siva (MTP internal mentor), Maria Gabriela Lasparra (external mentor), Lucia Kramarova (dramaturgy advisor), Maria Pisiou (editing advisor), La Bruja de Texcoco (music: Balaju)
TEXT
Llegar
hacernos espacio
acariciar las paredes como si fueran los límites de las entrañas, humedecerlas, calentarlas, mancharlas
como si hubiéramos perdido el miedo a tocar
aquí
en el resguardo de una esquinita en lo alto de un edificio perdido
Llegar
sentir el peso
sentirse dentro del cuerpo
escuchar el flujo
Respirar
sostener
soltar
Arribar al tallo, la columna
donde todo se desprende
donde atraviesa la vida herida
El corazón, el pecho, tomarlos entre las manos
sostener
escuchar
tender
Soltar
dejar correr lo que nos sacude con urgencia
la sangre, la respiración, las ganas, las penas
acariciar los puntos de encuentro
rozar nuestras paredes
Tocar, ser tocada, trastocarnos
Buscarnos
donde el sol no alcanza
en lo oscuro
en lo oculto
atentas a lo desconocido
gentiles, cautas, a la escucha.
Respirar, improvisar caminos
la cadera
el piso
lo que enraiza
Darle rienda suelta al goce del encuentro
despiertas
como agua que corre cuando la acaricia el viento.
Entonces preparamos nuestro espacio y nuestro cuerpo
para habitarlos de compañia
una compañia de danza tierna y radical
y desde ese resguardo nos abrimos
de par en par
nos dejamos inundar por presencias otras
nuestras familias
nuestros amigos
nuestras sombras
To arrive
to build us a room
to caress the walls as if they were the limits of the entrails,
moisten them, heat them, stain them
as if we had lost the fear of touching
right here
in the corner shelter on top of a lost building
To arrive
to feel the weight
to feel inside the body
to listen to the flow
To breathe
to hold
to release
Arrive at the stem, the spine
where everything blooms
where our wounded life goes through
The heart, the chest,
to hold between the hands
to hold
to listen
to yield
To release
let run what shakes us urgently
the blood, the breath, the desire, the sorrows
To caress the meeting points
to touch our walls
To touch,
to be touched,
Stroked
To look for us
where the sun does not reach
in the dark
in the hidden
mindful of the unknown
Gentle, cautious, listening.
To breathe,
improvise paths
the hip, floor, the grounding.
Give free rein to the joy of the encounter
Awake like water that runs when the wind caresses it.
So we built our space and our body
to live in company
a tender and radical dance company
and from that shelter, we opened
-wide open-
and allowed ourselves to be flooded by other presences
our families
our friends
our shadows
Text by Fernanda Gonzalez Morales, edited by Macarena de Arrigunaga