” What if the body never stops? What if the body never lands?”
At age 37, I realized I had lived (including temporary and permanent addresses) in over 40 different places. When I converted my age (37) into minutes, I found a correlation. It was as if I had moved every 48 seconds.
My experience of moving from one place (country, house, city) to another is not an exclusive phenomenon. In fact, it happens to everyone, to a lesser or greater extent, in a forced or voluntary manner, and an infinite number of reasons can cause it: personal desires, external forces, and so on.
The feeling of not stopping, of not having a break to rest, to breathe, or to feel (not) really grounded and connected to somewhere or someone, are the catalytic inputs in my search for a physicality that lies on the borderline between the vibrating body and the experience of contemplation.
In this way, in my dance piece “48”, I pose the above questions as a metaphor to talk about the transience of bodies in contemporary times. It is also an invitation to reflect on identity, uncertainty and belonging.
Master’s degree final project of Master in Expanded Theater by HKB Bern
Awarded the Choreography Prize of TanzPlan Ost / Société Suisse des Auteurs 2021
Nominated to Ober-Gerwern-Masterpreis 2018, Bern CH
Credits
Concept, choreography, dance : Elenita Queiróz
Mentor : Ted Stoffer
Video: Kim Schläpfer
Costume: Ismini Wild
Photo and graphic design: Mischa Herzog
Artistic advice: Hella Immler
Production management: Alena Kundela and Elenita Queiroz
Duration: 50 minutes
Performances
02., and 03., February, HKB Bern, Bern University of the Arts
