UNFOLDING | DEUTSCHLANDPREMIERE | 20 August//19h

UNFOLDING beschreibt den Vorgang des Enthüllens, des Aufdeckens, zu dem auch die gespannte Erwartung gehört, die der Enthüllung eines Objekts oder Körpers vorangeht. Den Moment, in dem wir etwas beinahe erkennen, die Erinnerung daran jedoch bewusst verdrängen, um die Aufdeckung hinauszuzögern und die Spannung zu verlängern.

KONZEPT/PERFORMANCE: Sofia Dias, Vítor Roriz PRODUKTION: O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo) GASTSPIEL IN ZUSAMMENARBEIT MIT: HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN.

"– Do you feel this? Do you feel it? Do you?
– Yeah...
– It’s funny, isn’t it?
– It’s like entering in the void.
– I don’t recognize it.
– It’s as if you had to wait for something, but you don’t know what it is. There is all these people and an empty space…it’s almost…upsetting…
– Not knowing what to expect…
– I mean, there’s nothing to expect…so, I guess that’s one thing.
– And also, if nothing happens...nothing happens.
(...)"

Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, in Unfolding.

JEUDI | 18 JUIN
18:00 - salle de l'ancien Evêché
LOOPING, programme 2 avec Sofia Dias/Vitor Roriz, Sandra Z. & Ana Catalina Gubandru.

" Most human beings, (...) complain about the meanness of nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, and because this spell of time that has been given to us rushes by so swiftly and rapidly that with very few exceptions life ceases for the rest of us just when we are getting ready for it.
(...) It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury
and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realise that it has passed away before we knew it was passing (...)
(...) It is a small part of life we really live, all the rest is not life, but merelly time."

Seneca (4 BC-AD 65), On the shortness of life

estreia | premiere Black box, O Espaço do Tempo

acerca de | about UNFOLDING

Unfolding é a acção de desvendar, de revelar algo gradualmente. A essa acção está associada uma expectativa perante o objecto/corpo a revelar. O momento em que quase reconhecemos o objecto, mas ignoramos a memória, na tentativa de retardar a revelação e prolongar a expectativa.

Unfolding é o espaço da potência e da ilusão, onde o pensamento divaga até a razão identificar o objecto e se fixar ao concreto. O corpo, na iminência da revelação, assume a dimensão do nosso imaginário e metamorfoseia-se.

(ENG) Unfolding is the action of disclosing, of revealing something gradually. To this action is associated an expectation before the mystery of the body/object to reveal. The moment in which we almost recognize the object but ignore the memory, as an attempt to postpone revelation and prolong expectation.
Unfolding is the space between potency and illusion, where thought wanders until the moment reason identifies the object and focuses on the concrete. The body, in its imminence of revelation assumes the dimension of our imaginary and metamorphoses itself.