IF EVERY ROCK IS A HOLE / 2022

If every rock is a hole, then every absence is a presence. If every hole is a rock, then vulnerability is a strength.

If every rock is a hole is a dance performance in which the audience is invited to slow down and look beyond the visible. Close to the audience, González Sola holds a series of forms: arches and curves resisting and surrendering to the forces of gravity and time. As the work goes, images, sounds and materials unfold, opening a vast world of associations and emotions.

The work invites to reflect on the relationship between strength and vulnerability: How to deal with the forces that move us and sometimes oppress us -metaphorically and literally-?

“Amparo González Sola’s latest work provides a clear outline on how to stay abstract and poetic while sending a strong political message. For me, this choreography is a manifesto of resistance in the face of oppression, of deriving empowerment from vulnerability.” Grzegorz Reske, artistic director SPRING Performing Arts Festival.

Context- This choreographic work was developed in 2020-22 within the context of DAS Choreography,  Amsterdam (AHK), and during residencies in Buenos Aires, Brussels and Zurich. A WIP was presented in Nov 2021 in the KVS Theater/ Festival Proximamente (BE). It was premiered in May 2022 in the SPRING Performing Art Festival (Utrecht), as a coproduction of the festival.

Credits-

DANCER Amparo González Sola  / LIGHT & SPACE Vinny Jones  / SOUND Nahuel Cano  / ARTISTIC COLLABORATION Jimena Perez Salerno / ADVISORS Diana Szeinblum, Kadiatou Diallo, Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca & Marie Bardet CHOREOGRAPHY Amparo González Sola 

CO PRODUCTION SPRING performing Art Festival

SUPPORT: Pro Helvetia – Coincidencia (CH), Program Residenties in Utrecht (NL), Institut Français d’ Argentine (FR), Próximamente Festival (BE), KVS Theater (BE), Munar Arte (AR), El Asunto de lo Remoto (AR), Young Art Support Amsterdam (NL); Jan Kassies Grants (NL).  RESIDENCIES: Rote Fabrik (CH), Workspace Brussels (BE), Los Vidrios (AR), Das Choreography AHK (NL), Dansateliers (NL).