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While Taking Shape
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How much of what happens in one body is connected to what happens in another? Through a choreography that frames the space between performers and audience and focuses on small gestures, this performance invites us to reconsider the dynamics of gaze, distance, and proximity, and the role they play in spaces where we observe.
I know it’s happening, but who is it happening to? — Kae Tempest (Pictures on a Screen)
How close must something be for us to feel it, to sense a connection or a responsibility? While Taking Shape was born from this question—out of a growing feeling of detachment in a world where terrible events are relentlessly displayed through the media. An endless flood of images, at high speed and stripped of any context, that seems to freeze our ability to feel, turning proximity into a kind of numbness.
The research for While Taking Shape began from the desire to dive deeper into questions of connection and responsibility, from the need of insisting on the question of what it means to bear witness.
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Amparo González Sola
Credits
Performance and research: Rita Bifulco, Amador Alina Folini, Leandro de Souza and Amparo González Sola
Sound design: Nahuel Cano
Light design: Vinny JonesDramaturgical advice: Bek Berger
Production: Dansateliers
Concept and direction: Amparo González Sola
Coproduction: Dansateliers, SPRING Performing Arts Festival and Frascati Producties.
Support: BAU AIR (NL), Greenhouse (NL), ROOMS Festival (NL), workspacebrussels (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH) and CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT).
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