THE CONSPIRACY OF FORMS/ 2023

The conspiracy of forms is a dance performance, a ritual of transformation and a political manifesto. Three women and a block of concrete. They hold the block, they hammer it, knead it, rub it, they transform the solid matter into something else.

The audience is invited to witness from close and to be slowly drawn into the ritual, immersed in the sound, touched by the dust.

In the performance, the block of concrete appears as an object and as a metaphor: the concrete is there, everywhere in our urban lives, supporting the structures in which we live, shaping the world as we know it today.

The conspiracy of forms addresses in a poetic way the question of what to do with the world we had built? What relationship is possible between demolishing and building? between destroying and creating?

Ph: Sebastian Arpesella

ph: Alex Heuvink

Background:
A first version of this work was presented in Buenos Aires in 2018, at the Museo Sivori and in 2021 within the festival El asunto de lo remoto, at Munar. A new version of this work premiered in May 2023 in Spring Performing Arts Festival, Utrecht, after a presentation work in process within the “Open Studio” of workspacebrussels at Kaaistudio’s, in Brussels, and after a series of public sharing at The grey space in the middle, in Rotterdam.

Historic of presentations: 

20 & 21 May 2023. PREMIERE SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Utrecht, NL link

17 May 2023. Try out The grey space in the Middle, The Hague, NL link

21 April 2023. WIP Kaaistudios / Open studio workspacebrussels, Brussels, BE. link

CREDITS  

Performance and creation: Carolina Stegmayer, Claudia Ganquín, Amparo González Sola – Light: Vinny Jones – External eye: Isabel Aimé González Sola & Rosario González Sola – Dramaturgical advice: Lisa Reinheimer – Production: Sanne Jacobs

Concept & direction: Amparo González Sola

Co-production: workspacebrussels (BE), The grey space in the middle (NL)

Supported by: Spring Performing Arts Festival (NL), Dansateliers (NL), Goethe Institut (NL), Gemeente Utrecht (NL), Residenties in Utrecht (NL), – Residencies: workspacebrussels (BE), Het Huis Utrecht (NL),PRODANZA (AR), Museo Sívori (AR), Institut français (AR), El asunto de lo remoto (AR), MUNAR, Fondo Nacional de las Artes (AR)

ph: Alex Heuvink