2024-02-03 15:27:54
The correct direction in performing arts It consists, among other things, in ensuring that viewers are clear about where they should look at each moment. Which means that, depending on how the actions that are taking place on stage are emitted, the members of the audience develop their intuition to know how to regulate them themselves.
Of course, people who are more accustomed to seeing works of contemporary performing arts will get into the “game” much faster; However, in DIEstinguished We are all challenged to enter into its contents from innumerable “routes”, that is: from the beginning the interpreters are putting into operation various patterns that are projected to the most disparate places in the room, and sometimes they “collide”, generating interactions that open paths to their permanent feedback. And although it is tempting to describe this as “chaotic”, the most useful thing is to understand it as a job that demands from us, the spectators, an active and autonomous attitude capable of making decisions and reflecting in situ on what is the best way to deal with things of this nature
I invite you to look for a better metaphor for how the sum of various “ingredients” can constitute a new “cosmos”, which as soon as a kind of “laws of Nature” are established within it, it will only evolve. made a new stadium, and so on. And if we add the factor that what is happening can also be perceived/analyzed through short shots and other things like that that are being broadcast in real time from the cell phones carried by some of the interpreters. , then, without hardly realizing it, we are facing problems specific to epistemology.
Photo: Nicolas Montandon
Now, how to select the appropriate perspective to respond to our inner inclinations? How to formulate our questions in a scenario in which nothing would remain suspended? Is it possible to decipher the patterns that support the free functioning of the “cosmos” that we are observing/studying? Under what criteria should we select the appropriate tools to advance our readings? And if one does not want to do “natural sciences” or philosophy about what one is facing, what positions do we have to take advantage of such experiences?… These and more questions are the ones that “corner” us when we immerse ourselves in a framework in which our respective daily lives remain in parentheses. Revealing to us that, in a more or less conscious way, we are permanently choosing how we adjust our points of view with who we are in the world.
As if this were not enough, the members of The Ribot Ensemble, use the above to suggest that the sophistication of new technological devices has accelerated faster than our assimilation capabilities. In such a way that, the absolute integration into our lives of them and of the interactions that have become possible with social networks, have brought to light that, we human beings, we are moved by a desire for survival through reproducing the “better version” of ourselves, while guaranteeing that our legacy will leave some “mark” in the world. Which, among other things, contradicts the fact that we are in a world in which the perception of time and space They have become narrower, leading us to confuse renewal with a simple “change of skin.”
Photo: Nicolas Montandon
This was addressed with irony and intelligence in the last third of DIEstinguished. At which time the performers formed small groups that moved while picking up and taking off the clothes that were in front of them. And suddenly, they froze the image in which their bodies had remained, making a frontal allusion to how far the dynamics to which we submit have come with the way we show ourselves to the world. Fortunately, these professionals led this to the cartoon, not to a kind of “performative manifesto” that is shown after a demonstration for this or that cause. Resource with which one puts a reflection of the ridiculous and insubstantial points that have been reached, of what, without a doubt, are things that can be most useful when looking for work, presenting goods and services that we offer through our ventures, maintain contact with people who live in locations different from ours, etc.…
Meanwhile, the roles that the dancers played became more and more limited to something that was camouflaged with the “landscape”, where they were releasing phrases with or without meaning. Thus, it was difficult to distinguish in the midst of so much noise and distortion, if there were “remnants” of what founded a way of thinking and being in the world. As if almost everything around us has become anachronistic and we have not yet found the portal that will take us out of the “limbo” in which we are born, live and die in this contemporary age. However, there were so many colors on the scene, the attitude of the characters was fresh and magnetic…, in short, things that, eventually, it is “natural” to get hooked on like someone who takes refuge in their addictions for “recreational” purposes.
Definitely, DIEstinguished It is a striking, elegant, fun piece, put together by linking a conglomerate of scheduled improvisations: This is how you can bring a piece composed of scheduled improvisations to the stage, without disrespecting the audience! Something that keeps one’s mind awake, at the same time that one wants to “throw oneself” onto the stage and ask what is the guideline to know how to begin to “merge” into that “cosmos”, which is nothing more than the fruit of the impeccable elaboration of a conceptual framework, which helped DIEstinguished It will not be limited to being a mere “reflection” of what these professionals have observed and experience firsthand.
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