THE TRAP OF THE LOST PARADISE

SYNOPSIS

What can we assert today about the human within the confines of technology, in its existential sway between the organic and the inorganic? What physical experience constitutes the Cyborg? What forms of pleasure do we rehearse within our indoor paradise, imposed as an expression of life in the Metropolis? Anonymous, androgynous, techno-humanoid bodies. Bodies-question that insinuate with their image the history of an artifice: Adam entering paradise without knowing what to do with the desire that stalks him; women-chickens learning to walk atop their heels; Amy Winehouse resurrected in the act of seeing and being seen. Will it be possible this time to blur domestication, to mock the hypothesis of an evolutionary and binary history? What sparks of subsistence and humor may emerge from the friction of the body with a crystallized beyond? What rebellions of the organism will erupt amid nonsense, confusion, and enthusiasm? We enter paradise. We dance the trap…

CREDITS

Performers: Popi Cabrera, Malena Giaquinta and Rhea Volij

Scenography: Sandra Iurcovich
Costume and Makeup: Silvia Zavaglia
Lighting Design: Matías Sendón
Sound Design: Patricio Suárez
Assistant: Maiá Noé Rivadeneira, Marta Polesel, Gabriela Britos
Scenic Production: Duillio Della Pittima 
Photography: Carolina Nicora
Production: Suárez y Volij
Director and Choreography: Rhea Volij y Patricio Suárez

Duration: 50 minutes.

WORK TRAJECTORY

• Galpón FACE, Buenos Aires, December 2018.
• Galpón de Guevara, Buenos Aires, June 2019.
• Centro Cultural de La Cooperación Floreal Gorini, Buenos Aires, July 2019.
• New Tendencies Dance Festival, Mendoza, September 2019.
• Dynamo Theater, La Plata, September 2019.
• Dardo Rocha Cultural Center, La Plata, October 2019.
• Espacio Ramona, Córdoba, November 2019.
• Area 623, Buenos Aires, November 2019.
• Teatro Cuatro Elementos, Mar del Plata, December 2019.
• Espacio Callejón, Buenos Aires, July 2021.
• Camarín de las Musas, Buenos Aires, October and November 2021.
• Espacio Callejón, Buenos Aires, June-July 2022.
• Haroldo Conti Memory Center, Haroldo Conti, July 2022.
• International Contemporary Dance Festival, Centro Cultural Recoleta, October 2022.
• Borges Cultural Center, October 2022.
• International Festival of Buenos Aires, February 2023.
• COCOA DATEI Independent Contemporary Dance Festival, 2022.

This work was the recipient of the Creation Grant from the National Fund for the Arts (Argentina) in 2017, the PRODANZA Award (Argentina) in 2018, and PRODANZA (Argentina) in 2019.