Balada Corporal, Part I : Solid Body - Emotional Body

Solid is the state in which matter maintains a fixed volume and shape.

The man holds a life-size glass plate. The woman is entrapped by a net, as a second skin, at the other side of the plate. She holds a cow heart with her hands. The man takes the heart from her. He places it with 7 other hearts inside 7 glass bowls set in a circle. He collects the hearts with his mouth, wraps them inside a white cover, and carries it, like a baby, towards the spectators. He places the hearts back inside the bowls. He returns to the glass board. The woman frees herself from the glass board. The man lets the glass board fall down. The man lies down within the circle of hearts. The woman invites single visitors to write on the man’s back with a feather or a nail. She cancels each writings and pours the liquid into a glass bowl over the hearts, until each bowl is filled with liquid.

1. *The performance series Balada Corporal consists of four parts. It speaks about the continuity of becoming, the difficulties of real encounters unleashing the physical boundaries of body surface, and transformation through concrete communication- physical, psychological, verbal and non-verbal. The visitors gather with the performers to re-awaken what is constitutional to all humans: the expressive power of body and language. These keynotes help to overcome the actual frozen state of being- not as a matter of nostalgia, but rather to ingrain pure poetry into life by re-evaluating the necessity of honest and sincere human interchange.

* Photos: Sérgio Prucoli, Aisha Ryannon Pagnes

* Duration: 30 Minutes

* University of Chile, Santiago de Chile. October 2010.

* EMBA Escuela de Arte Carlos Morel, Buenos Aires. November 2010.

* Homero Massena Gallery, Vitoria, Brazil. January 2011.

* The Substation Theatre, Singapore. April 2011.

* Teatro Villa Mazzacorati, Bologna, Italy. June 2011.

* OMISSIS Festival for Performing Arts, Lapidario Civico, Gradicsa d’Isonzo, Italy. June 2011.

* VestAndPage’s Balada Corporal, Part I: Solid Body - Emotional Body is a very professional work, of high formal quality and cultural interest. I believe in the essential: the artistic representation on a classical support is out-dated. Now the image comes to life and leaves the support to enter inside the real world. Now the artwork is directly inscribed onto the bodies of those who watch over the living flesh.

* Prof. Jorge Michell, Philosopher and Architect, University Santiago de Chile

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