©Isabella Arboleda
DE LIBRISCO AL MAGMA
woensdag 23 april
kleine zaal - 21:15
dans
(30 min)
What is left from myself after the desire and the illusion? In the game of chance, I walk without feet to come closer to the magma. The magma is this incandescent illusion that I have invented to be able to continue, to walk without feet and with my hands inside the Earth throwing blood from within. I wanted to overlap narratives, energies, intensities as ancient Sanskrit poets used to do in their writings. To me this was a way of embodying the sincresis that I believe is present in my body; nothing concrete over what a body wants to say and to keep.
As a statement this performance dissolves in my hands, with no other motif than the one of breaking myself into fragments in order to reach the unity -another illusion- between body, space, time and desire.
Yes, to name it I will call it desire: “the overflowing, incessant force that could rip-off the social tissue”. Rip-off, search life in the invisible spaces or yet remain silent with other angels besides me as if they were humans.
Isabella Arboleda is a performer & choreographer and cultural worker from Cali, Colombia. For her it all starts by conceiving the body as a subject and object: an entity that can speak for itself and at the same time, a place where one can deploy a multiplicity of narratives, images, symbols, impulses.
Why would we want to control a body on stage if we can’t control life itself? It is precisely this division between art and life that Isabella wants to blur in every process. Her work wants to transmit the constant flux between (her) life and the work of art: there are no distinctions, in the creative act she rebuilds herself over and over again and in her way of living we find her way of creating. De Librisco al magma would be her second living manifesto.
credits
Creatie: Isabella Arboleda
Costume design: Lola Ilegems
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Duur: 30min