The Stone, the Sorrow
Contemporary dance
2024
The Stone, the Sorrow is a choreographic object designed for three performers. It proposes a fantastic imaginary, in which each performer is half human and half goat, contrasting with a real and naked scenography, made up of the technical skeleton of the theatres where it is performed like abandoned quarries in Portugal, assuming them to be wounds in the landscape and places of human extraction, compared to the idea of Family, where relationships undergo processes of wear and tear, abandonment and reconstruction.
This performance focuses on the contemplation of real family narratives and their fluctuation between the public and the private, rethinking intimacy as a working subject in the context of creation, and in conflict with the concept of speed, the aim is to develop a work between reality and its manipulation, inserting mythological and fantastic spaces that allow a gap, a temporal elasticity in the unreachable interval between movement and pause.
