ÍNSULA
1. piece of land surrounded by water
2. popular subregion in cognitive neuroscience, responsible for decision-making, emotional processing, and attention
directed/choreography: gema galiana - performed by gabriel jimenez
ÍNSULA is an accidental piece. Object based. It does not have any other reason to exist but its existence itself. Actually we do not know why and if it really does.
The piece was built around the physical limits of a rectangular, metal office table, accidentally found. The object chose itself. We observed the object reveal its hidden questions, its problems; we look inside ourselves through it, or maybe we project ourselves onto the object; anyway, we built a tension-filled dialogue between quotidian space and a poetic world. The poetic world is what makes everything worth it, and where we find sense and reasons to continue.
Some might say Ínsula is a movement-based theater piece, but I think it is first object based and our language is physical. We are glad to be here in dance territory with our theatre habits, breaking language while asking questions, playing like kids, very seriously.
performer: gabriel jiménez
sound design gahyae Ryu
light design stephanie Lutz
video stephanie Lutz
text after: fernando pessoa, peter handke, calderón de la barca, anthony nikolchev
text composition: anthony nikolchev
