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REQUIEM FOR A LANDSCAPE
Requiem for a landscape is a resulting performance from a research on body, movement and presence, generating a performative practice on body memory, especially in relation to the territory and death. Addressing not only the personal memory, but also all the inherited and collective memory. It is a proposal of immersion, reaching depths where fiction and reality are no longer discernible. From the exposed body, it looks for an access to the denied collective memory, the collective subconscious that has been buried. A memory that connects with the cruelty and violence of the human being, and that does so from pain and pleasure, from destruction and from the primary longing for life.
The piece is conceived as a fluctuating landscape that gradually leads the viewer towards a contemplative gaze, inviting her/him to an intimate state of personal reflection.
Concept and creation: Diana Gadish
Performance: Esther Freixa and Diana Gadish.
Advise: Toni Cots
Light design: Daniel Miracle
With the support of: La Caldera, Festival Citemor (Montemor-o-Velho); CRA’P, Fàbrica de les Arts Roca Umbert and Fundació la Plana.
GENESIS JOPLIN
Eve was expelled from the Garden of Eden after she ate from the forbidden apple. Since then her erratic soul is still present in people lives on the earth.
This is the story of her descendents: a singer, a French bohemian woman, a general, a witch, a politician and Janis Joplin. All of them have a common destiny marked by temptation, desire and rebellion.
Diana’s Gadish background in contemporary dance and choreography is visible in her clown.
The spectator is plunged into a world of emotions and sensations. A tale of womanhood is explained through the expressions and movements of the characters.
Genesis Joplin presents a singular humor, entertaining, disconcerting and poetic.
Creation and performance: Diana Gadish
Direction: Jango Edwards
Language: Gestual -con intervenciones en castellano e inglés-.
Duration: 60 min.
Creation year: 2010
With the support of: ALMAZEN, LA SERRADORA
HICCUP FOR HOME
A body is looking repeatedly and unsuccessfully for a place to belong and a structure in which it can feel safe.
This time, the architecture of the theatre is used in an unusual way. The performer moves on and off the stage, appearing and disappearing. Thus, the theatre becomes a window that allows the viewer to see only snippets of the work.
On one hand it emphasizes the real space, the architecture of the theatre, and at the same time, using the elements provided by this same architecture, it hints at a fictional universe.
With a very unique body language and unusual staging, here we face the question of how cultural mechanisms respond to the need to cling to structures and identities, and at the same time, our inability to maintain them.
Creation and performance: Diana Gadish
Artistic advise: Igor Dobricic, Eileen Standley
Duration: 25 min.
Creation year: 2006
Coproduction: AHK, MUIDERPOORT THEATER
HICCUP FOR HOME II
Second version of “Hiccup for Home. ” It premiered at Melkweg (Amsterdam) as final work at SNDO. For this occasion, the original one was adapted to the interpreter Ria Higler. While the first version has a more raw quality and theatrical elements are as limited as possible, in this second version some theatrical elements as clothing items, text and character have been introduced, moving in a delicate balance between real and fictitious space.
Creation: Diana Gadish
Interpretation: Ria Higler, Igor Dobricic
Duration: 25 min.
Creation year: 2007
Coproduction: AHK
