
he aquí un acto romántico
richard mascherin (2023)
original music & sound design
What starts and ends with an accident?
What hurts more, getting hit on the lips or a kiss on the lips?
Is hating another way of loving?
Do you want me to give myself to you?
Would you love me if I didn’t need you?
Can I fall with you?
What is a romantic act?
The physical and emotional fall is used here to create a map of bodies thrown into the void. This piece is a reaction to the bombardment of stimuli we currently face and the unending accumulation of objects that console, hurt and nullify us.
Three victims try to consciously move themselves through this violent spiral, turning accidents and provocations, bonds and separations, into a transcendental rite of passage, a ceremony in which toxicity is used as a tool in resurrection. Here, deliverance has two faces. It is dangerous but it also strengthens and gives new life. After all, you cannot get up until you have fallen down.
Here is the declaration of something that cannot be tamed. Here is heroic resistance. Here is a romantic act.
DATES
Direction and choreography: Richard Mascherin
Performers: Lucía Montes, Javier Mario Salcedo, Richard Mascherin
Text and dramaturgy: Sergio Martínez Vila
Light design: Laura Iturralde
Choreographic assistance: Juan Carlos Toledo
Sound technician: Iñaki Ruiz Maeso
Costume design: Richard Mascherin Scenography: Richard Mascherin
Costume manufacturing: Marisa Maggi
Mixing: Alejandro da Rocha & Alberto Cernadas
Mastering: Alex Lastra