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Balada Corporal, Part IV: Fragile Body - Private Body | Performance

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Balada Corporal, Part IV : Fragile Body - Private Body

Between us there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

(Blaise Pascal)


The woman is blindfolded and tightened to the wall with a metal corset and ropes. The man enters underneath a huge glass plate, which stands on 7 glass bowls, each one containing a lamb heart. He slips under the glass plate and shifts the bowls outside. The woman, once she can reach the bowls, picks up the heart and places it  inside her corset. She sets the bowls on top of the glass board. They talk to each other in order to know about each others next steps. In a continuum of balance and sensibility, the man exits again and they put down the glass board (which could be intact or broken after the action) with the empty bowls on the floor. They kiss, and at each kiss they let drop a crystal gem inside the glass bowls, to offer them to the public. The man takes two hearts from the woman’s body and replaces them inside two glass bowls. The woman joins the bowls together and exits with the man.


  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.

* Photos: Gabriela Alonso, Silvia Profumi

* Metal corset design and realization: Marianna Ferrarotti

* Duration: 30 Minutes


* CCEBA, Buenos Aires. November 2010

* MUMA Museum of Modern Art, Junin, Argentina. November 2010.

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

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

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