i. PREVIOUS WORKS

Because I Can

Because I Can is a delicate solo made by Eva Recacha in collaboration with performer Lauren Potter and sound artist Alberto Ruiz Soler, visiting notions of power, memory and growing old, and exploring the theme of value in relation to gender and age.

The piece is a poetic stream of consciousness where memories flow in and out of our grasp, leaving a delicate scent of nostalgia and loss. The audience witnesses the performer revisit various memories, her presence becoming an ode to a quiet yet liberating rebelliousness that turns intimacy into a tower of power.

In this work we worked alongside performer Lauren Potter exploring the themes of gender and age using a memoir format. We told fragments of stories and memories which were embodied in Lauren’s dancing and Lauren’s speech, and which ended up inextricably entangled with her as a performer. For this new work we want to test pushing this memoir format to a place where it sits less comfortably, combining it with moments of dialogue and critical thinking. It is in the company of each other that we’ll revel, we’ll come out, and we’ll question our own memories and the narratives that they generate. 

Is this a dance?

When you skip down the street or turn on the spot for no reason; when you stamp your feet in rage or throw your arms in the air in joy… Have you ever wondered ‘is this a dance’?

This is a show for anyone who has ever found joy in mindlessly moving to music like nobody’s watching.

The work exists in 4 different versions, English, Bengali, Flemish and Catalan and it is currently being translated into French and Spanish.

With this playful work we explored the joy of dancing and its relationship to sound/music. We also explore creatice writing to make a work that is both insightful and surreal. For this new work we want to continue questioning the relationshin between sound/music and dance and to develop this way of writing which is fun, surreal and makes you think.

Aftermath

Aftermath is a duet set in limbo, where two women suffer from eternal boredom and lack of acknowledgement. Absurd and humorous, the work is an ode pointlessness.

The piece is conceived as a means to relate to current issues such as the idea of ‘Post-everything’ (post-feminism, post-truth, post-idealism, post-humanism) and what that means to us as individuals with particular experiences of value, justice, agency, or the lack of those.
 In ‘an imagined world’ were the only option is to be resilient, what is our motivation for being so? Is motivation possible in a post-truth era?

Aftermath substitutes the idea of post-truth for the idea of post-time. The characters are dead. No change is possible. No future is waiting. And yet we wish to do something, but what?

The work emerges from experiencing motherhood and the social isolation that can come with it. The piece is not about motherhood, rather about that sense that ‘something is over’, and what then?

In this work, we explore Eva’s personal experience of motherhood at the same of Alberto’s desire to expand their sonic palet in sound making. During SUR we will dive into our personal experiences Alberto will also continue pushing their producing skills to develop their sound even further.

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