2024-05-04 16:25:19
I am glad that, finally, I have come across Body Imaginary: Migratory Effecta piece that serves as an example of how to use projected texts in the background of the stage, without it being suspiciously pretentious or distorting my process of understanding what I am analyzing.
This group of professionals took it so far that, at times, the interpretation of Carlota Berzal y Cristóbal Santa María Cea It was a mere accompaniment/prolongation of the contents of what was being projected, that is: When I interviewed Carlota Berzal through this medium to put in context the representation of this piece at the Teatro Central, I concluded that there are a series of themes that have been manifesting in their creations in one way or another. Along these lines, perhaps My flag y I WANT IT TO are the works closest to Body Imaginary: Migratory Effect, to the extent that the internal conflicts that occur when one migrates converge in the latter, as well as the question of where what we do remains with what we associate with our identity, even if this means falling into self-exploitation.
Likewise, one’s identity is presented to us as something that keeps swinging like a pendulum that, sometimes, we do not rush because suspension is a form of movement. This resulted in this creation, resorting to links that prevented Body Imaginary: Migratory Effect Do not get bogged down in the inertia of your frenetic dances in the first part, and the savored actions in the last.
In parallel, in the background of the stage messages were broadcast in which our place of origin would not so much be denied, or that recognizing that the places in which one has lived have been important throughout our life cycles, despite the fact that In the end, one has left them, for example, to avoid a kind of stagnation (a reflection of this is found in the sentence: “Every so often you have to move”). What I want to get at is that the sense of belonging did something specific, the areas that we classify as “home” and other things like that, in many cases, we only identify them in a few people, in moments in which we have felt in “safe spaces”… Leaving the rest in “passing” places and people.
Photo: Ilde Sandrin
I do not say the above with contempt, since those people and places are those that allow us to shape our criteria or expand our knowledge. Because, unfortunately, the feeling of foreignness, of disorientation proliferates in us beyond us… Reinforcing, among other things, the perception that we are all alone from the day of our birth until the moment our death is consummated. If this is true, then in the “safe spaces” y “the home-people” (to call them something) is where the best version of ourselves comes out the most, or is this world so cruel that the fact that we have “survived” is an indication of our versatility and temperance?
Behold there Body Imaginary: Migratory Effect define it as a work that encourages us, the spectators, to meditate on our lives, while keeping us awake. Because they always develop with intensity, regardless of whether the posture with which we prefer to face ours is laziness or entrenchment in routines resulting from numerous contingencies. Nor is it about “experiencing” jumping into a “pool” before checking whether or not there is water to cushion our falls, but rather about materializing, preformatically, what we have chosen through the use of our consciousnesses.
Photo: Pablo Llorente
Once again, Carlota Berzal places her viewers in a framework in which they cannot “escape” or ignore their political responsibilities and, by extension, their own lives. Is about a spectacle of immeasurable potentialand taking into account that it risks not reaching all sensitivities, I trust that it will interrupt the habits of those who claim that “they have seen it all.”
I can only applaud the meticulous work they have done. Poliana Lima (address) and Ricardo Mena Rosado (dramaturgy), who, through respect for such an abstract original idea, provided scenic consistency with something that could have been diluted in the staging process. As far as I’m concerned, Body Imaginary: Migratory Effect deserves to enjoy a long tour.
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