Balada Corporal, Part III : Aerial Body - Spiritual Body

Gas is the state in which matter expands to occupy whatever volume is available.

The man walks on a line of broken glass pieces, with an iron pipe in his hands, blowing a sound into the glass bowls set along his way. The woman is hidden inside a cocoon hanging from the ceiling. Only her arm is visible, opening the bottom of the cocoon to trickle out white powder on the floor beneath. When the man has finished his walk along the path of broken glasses, he pours gasoline on it and flames it. He breathes in the hill of white powder arisen beneath the cocoon of the woman. He draws a heart. He discovers a red ball. He plays with it. He reaches a stair and enlightens with a candle an umbrella over his head. The woman exits the cocoon. She contacts the ground. Step by step she connects parts of her body to the floor, passing alongside the path of the man, and breathing inside the same bowls. She crawls on the floor towards the man.  She dresses herself in a masking tape with the writing Fragile on it. She joins the man on the stairs. They breathe inside each other mouths until they run out of oxygen.

1. *The performance series Balada Corporal consists of currently 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.

* Video: Alvaro Pereda

* Duration: 25 Minutes

* MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Valdivia Chile. November 2010.

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