Premiere presented in cooperation with Sophiensæle
20.–23.8.
21.8. ● Beyond the Stage | Moderation: Mateusz Szymanówka
22.8. Audio description (German)
Portuguese & English
Minimum age: 12 years
Duration 1 h 15 min
How can we be in the world and coexist in ways that are not rooted in extractivism and exploitation? Inspired by non-Eurocentric cosmologies on climate change and deriving from her experience of motherhood, Michelle Moura advocates for ways of relating that are built upon reciprocity. In an ecstatic ritual of circle dances, twirls, and songs, beings with fantastical bodies explore the potential for transformation. "BOCA COVA“ investigates the insatiability of our mouths, our bodies, and the unreal logics of capitalism – and attempts to re-direct this hunger towards the creation of a more sustainable relation with life.
To the podcast with Michelle Moura
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Artist's Note by Michelle Moura
A few years ago, I came across this phrase: "Insatiability that torments".
An endless hole, growing within each of us. The ever-present lack.
The colonial capitalist system as an unstoppable devourer, extracting the life force from all things and beings: turning the world into a product to be outdone. A system incapable of creating other realities, everything it consumes has the same insipid taste. Nothing satisfies it.
Is lack something inherent to the human condition, or is it produced and stimulated by capitalism? How do I disinfect myself from this insatiable system?
What is the difference between desiring and cultivating?
This work begins with the mouth: how to move and think from it. What is it capable of consuming and also creating? The opening and closing, the sounds, the expressions and sensations it activates. By looking more closely at this hole in the middle of the face, I began to recognize the act of eating as something complex, containing multiple relationships: nutrition and support; encounter with other beings and substances; metamorphosis, destruction, pleasure. The mouth as an alchemical portal of transformation.
And what does this mouth pursue? Is there something capable of fully satisfying it?
A dance produced from the connection with the digestive tract, movements of expelling and swallowing. A mouth in connection with the ground we tread. Feeling the world as this mouth that chews and swallows different materials, subjects, and beings. At this very moment, we are being digested: under the pressure of gravity, slowly cooked by time in the broth of elements.
This piece is a digestive tract that contracts in an attempt to expel another world, from the remnants of what is left.
A production by Michelle Moura in co-production with Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer (in cooperation with Sophiensaele) and PACT Zollverein. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
The premiere is presented in co-operation with Sophiensæle.
Co-production and residency supported by FELD/LAB, a project by O Espaço do Tempo and the Goethe Institut Portugal.
With the kind support of the Danish Arts Foundation and Diorama Berlin.
Thanks to Elisabete Finger, Mateusz Szymanowka, Sophie Spiral Schultze-Allen
from 19:00 to 20:00 Sophiensæle Festsaal
from 19:00 to 20:00 Sophiensæle Festsaal
● Beyond the Stage
from 18:00 to 19:00 Sophiensæle Festsaal
Audio description (German)
from 17:00 to 18:00 Sophiensæle Festsaal
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