Of animalities and delusions
Passages induced by Bosch and the forest.
Choreography: Aura Arreola
Live music: Jerónimo Naranjo
Guest artists: David Herrera (wire masks) and Guyphytsy Aldalai
Lighting design: Lauri Abad
Choreographic Laboratory of the Flesh and Bone Society
Performers: Fernanda Palacios, Fer Razo, Evangelina Rossia, Bruno Zaca, Monica Mengual, Adrian Mejia, Nadia Mondragon, Rodrigo Sagrero, Monserrat Mundo, Edna Soriano, Marianela Ponce, Isabel Narezo, Daniela Albuerne, Tania Martinez, Enrique Garcia, Estefania Cafeina, Astrid RuNa and Mago Cervantes .
Human sculptures by César Martínez, as part of his exhibition The Idea and the Odyssey.
Photographs by: Manuel Enriquez, César Alberto Guzmán and Armando Juárez
Dusk falls on the forest. In the distance, a flock of humans engages in a dialogue with visible and invisible beings. The smells and textures of the environment are amplified as these bodies engage in the absurd task of abandoning, even if only for a moment, their human form.
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The audience is led into a series of passages inspired by Hieronymus Bosch: twenty creatures orchestrated by some of the Flemish painter's most emblematic and delirious animalities. Delirium, which in Latin means "to emerge from the furrow when tilling the land," is a call to joyfully deviate from the plot that weaves us with other lives and deaths in multiple temporalities and spatialities. It matters little what is real; let us be allowed delirium in the night of all the forests.
Choreographic creation by Aura Arreola in collaboration with participants from the Butoh Dances and Embodied Experiences and Butoh In Situ workshops.
Through two pedagogical processes related to Butoh dance, interdisciplinary experimentation, and more-than-human worlds, Aura Arreola and the Flesh and Bone Society have convened a workshop for choreographic creation inspired by the creatures of Hieronymus Bosch and the Forest. Delirium, which in Latin means "to emerge from the furrow when tilling the land," is a call to joyfully deviate from the plot that weaves us with other lives and deaths in multiple temporalities and spatialities.
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Here, Butoh and its interdisciplinary overflows are key to peering into the depths of our uniqueness, but also to perceiving the invisible threads that sustain us. Revisiting the animality in Bosch: an invocation for more-than-human futures, it matters little what is real, we are allowed to delirium in the night of all the forests.