MODAFE, International Spark Place #2
Showtimes
Sunday (19:00)
Synopsis
[Performance Introduction] Lalel Pillora <Breeze through the soul> We often live our lives barely conscious of our own breathing. Breathing naturally permeates and flows through every moment of daily life, such as speaking, walking, eating, and sleeping. But what if we were to become fully conscious of it? What would change if we deeply focused on the flow of breath at every moment and fully realized its continuity? As performers, we explore how breathing influences emotions and senses. Throughout the work, we experiment with the potential of breath, examining its impact on movement and, simultaneously, how movement shapes breath. Through this process, we observe the profound workings of breath on our existence and reveal the wonders hidden between inhalation and exhalation. Elena Puchol Sola <NO HAY HUECO EN EL JARDIN> No hay hueco en el jardin is a work that deals with personal reflection stemming from abandonment. It explores how one positions oneself in the face of this experience, how one navigates internal conflict, and the desire for forming relationships and moving forward together that operates ceaselessly within the unconscious. By concealing the performer's face, the work erases identity and dehumanizes the body, creating a new state where identical beings constantly interact. They form a cycle of action and reaction within a repetitive structure of space and time. This atmosphere is depicted as a space akin to a vast, all-absorbing garden, detached from the conventional and human world, placing the characters in a setting that is both comical and novelistic. Marine Fernandez <Centifolia> This work explores aging, change, and socially constructed standards of beauty, centering on the relationship with the female body. Through the image of a rose losing its petals over time, it retraces how the sense of femininity, formed by being praised for "beauty" and "cuteness" during childhood, influences an individual's identity. Combining movement, sound, and theatrical imagery, this work reveals the tension between innocence, desire, and social expectations, while simultaneously reinterpreting aging not as decline, but as a process of change in which the body and perception deepen. Through poetic and playful scenes and moments of reflection, the work proposes a new perspective on femininity that changes and is performed within time. Xiong Jiangyi <Nomadism of the Body> If not wandering, there is only decay. Nomadism and movement are the paths of life. Memories engraved in the body are eternal coordinates. How are cultural genes latent in the bloodline transmitted and mutated through the most subtle rhythms? Deep within every individual's body lies a 'spiritual meadow' from which we can nomad forever yet never escape? Taking the physical transformation of nomadic culture as its trajectory, this work explores the dynamic aspects of identity that persist between tradition and modernity, and between the collective and the individual. Ultimately, I aim to visualize the ceaselessly flowing field of the body and the iconography of life.
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