ECHOES OF THE FUTURE

Interdisciplinary project that combines elements of the performing arts (dance and theater), with the disciplines of sound design and media arts. This immersive and participatory proposal invites the audience to interact with the environment, allowing them to rethink the present and future world from their own bodily experience. To carry out this work, we were inspired by Donna Haraway´s multispecies feminist theory, the notion of ecological thinking of Timothy Morton, Nazareth Castellanos´ theory of body neuroscience, and the perspective on decolonization by Fabian Villegas.

ECHOES OF THE FUTURE seeks to raise awareness and affect people through different experiences, objects, and sensory landscapes that make up the scene, creating a space of imagination with evocative and poetic proposals. We seek to enable the audience to freely interpret reflections about ecology, not only in terms of protection or conservation of nature but also to recognize the otherness that surrounds us. In this sense, the work advocates generating an experience that allows the audience to feel their own body and to understand how this consciousness is not limited to the surface of the skin but to the understanding of the continuity between the body, the environment, people, other species, and objects with their own agencies. For this reason, this performance invites us to understand others' ways of relating to others beyond our usual categories.

Artistic Team

Co-Creators: Loreto Caviedes, Camila R. Cannobbio, Kamille Gutiérrez, Diana Carvajal

Sound Art: Emiliana Araya

Design: Manuela Mege

Media Arts and Device Construction: Ximena Sánchez

Dramaturgical Advisor: Isidora Stevenson

Production: Rocío Argandoña

Performances

2023 Matucana 100

Financial Support

FONDART (Chilean arts funds)

Virtual Gallery

Virtual gallery is an experience aimed at a remote audience where excerpts from the work Echoes of the Future are shared in digital format through the following platform

TELEKINESIS

This is an online dance action in the domestic space, where the audience is the protagonist of the experience. The Co-inspirantes collective accompanies the participants in a synchronous way for 45 minutes, via whatsapp, on a tour of their own home, where through the moving body they are invited to transform domestic actions such as making tea, sweeping and interacting with the kitchen space, in revolutionary and joyous micro-dances! Is it possible to contact our environment from the game / enjoyment? Can everyday space be inhabited in a performative way? How to do small revolutionary acts within our home? These are some of the questions that move TELEKINESIS, an experience that combines elements of relational art, site specific and dance.

The entire experience is interpreted by LSCh.

Co-inspirers

Nicole Sazo

Diana Carvajal

Loreto Caviedes

Kamille Gutiérrez

Camila Rojas

Mila Ercoli

Emiliana Abril

Andrés Herrera 

Ludo Ibarra

Performances

2020 JUNTA Festival, Brazil.

2020 Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center

COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE 

“I remembered Enriqueta" Once everything was new. " I loved the proposal and the prominence of sign language ... it seems to me that without it, it would not have been so multisensory ... excellent timing and agility in handling the platforms. A true meditative act. Thank you"

"Thank you so much for everything! A tremendous act of trust, of letting go of expectations, of letting go of control ... In that personal and intimate we become entangled from our particularities and decisions of today. Up the creeping presences "

"The beginning makes a difference with what you are doing, with" normality ", everyday life, dressing or wearing something you like and doing things around the" house "was key for me. It is saying to herself "I may do the same, but I want to feel different."

"Today I woke up thinking about Telekinesis as a pandemic survival technique"

"Congratulations! Excellent work very clever! I'm left with making tea, dancing with tea, and sweeping I'm left with letting go! "

“Wonderful poetry of domestic life! Thanks a lot"

"Thank you very much, enormous experience, I had never participated in something like this, excellent work and you can see the dedication, congratulations"

Thanks a lot! What a beautiful experience ... living in the house, dancing the house! the dance was my companion in quarantine, in confinement. Thanks also for doing it with others!

“Thank you very much for generating this collective practice of being able to get entangled for a moment of time. The gesture, the daily action is what unites us in this group choreography. Thank you very much for the invitation <3 "

"It was very enjoyable to indulge in this interactive, pleasant, novel, and original experience, thank you"

“IF I CAN´T DANCE TO IT, IS NOT MY REVOLUTION”

Inspired by Emma Goldman's iconic phrase, this work in progress is a relational device that explores the ideas of dance and revolution. In it, the audience is invited to a playful space in which they will have to take on different roles to transform their environment and the way they relate to other bodies. This proposal seeks to affect the body of the spectators through collective and joyous actions using movement, kinetic objects, and sounds.

Co-inspirers

Loreto Caviedes
Camila Rojas
Diana Carvajal
Kamille Gutiérrez
Emiliana Araya
Elizabeth Dastres

Artistic residencies

2018 February. Graner Creation centre for Dance and Live Art, Barcelona, Spain. Organized by NAVE Creation and Residency Center and sponsored by the National Council of Culture and the Arts of Chile.
2019 June-September. “Hecho en BAJ”, Balmaceda Arte Joven.
2019 October. NAVE Creation and Residency Center.
2019 December. Graner Creation centre for Dance and Live Art, Barcelona, Spain.

Performances

2019 Work in Progress. Graner Creation centre for Dance and Live Art, Barcelona, Spain
2020 NAVE Creation and Residency Center

LABORATORIES

Within the framework of this project, we created a series of laboratories on audience participation strategies for dance creation. For each session, we proposed guidelines for experimentation so the participants can be co-creators of the instance. For this, they are invited to various exercises that explore the notion of participation based on movement, sound, and kinetic objects. How do sound and objects affect the ways we move and relate to other bodies? How can joyous collective actions be generated from movement, sound, and objects? How can we transform the scenic action from our decisions? These questions are the starting point for developing a participatory practice, which explore the notion of dance as collective enjoyment, and revolution, as a change of the established order. These laboratories are aimed for people from 16 to 65+ years of age (no experience in dance is required).