Piece about disappearance

(2011) – app. duration: 42’
Original name:
‘Piece about disappearance’

Premiered in:
Het Veem Theater (Amsterdam, NL), on May 6th, 2011
Performed in:
Het Veem Theater (Amsterdam, NL - May 2011); Theater Frascati WG (Amsterdam, NL - October 2011)

In PIECE ABOUT DISAPPEARANCE two dancers trace their memory, their senses and their imagination in a profound attempt to access history. Working with documents related to the forced disappearance of people during Argentina’s military dictatorship of 1976–1983, they engage with bodies they had never met and spaces where they had never been.
The result consists of two intriguing dances: one offers a concentrated proposal inside the body while the other one searches the boundaries and spaciousness of the outside. How improbable/impossible their attempts might be, they show, at the same time, the fragmentary and incomplete history of the disappeared.

concept, choreography and direction: Pablo Fontdevila
choreography and performance: Ingrid Berger Myhre and William Collins

advise: Diego Gil
lighting design: Pablo Fontdevila
video projections, graphic design: Sr. Mara
advise on costumes and video: Maria Noel Dourron

produced by PF&MTH
co-produced by Het Veem Theater
with suppor from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
supported by Fabrik Postdam in the frame of Tanzplan Potsdam: Artist-in-Residency, and by Dansmakers Amsterdam (research project)

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