Amparo González Sola: While Taking Shape

Lees in het Nederlands

I know it’s happening, but who is it happening to? — Kae Tempest (Pictures on a Screen) 

How close must something be for us to feel it, to sense a connection or a responsibility? While Taking Shape was born from this question—out of a growing feeling of detachment in a world where terrible events are relentlessly displayed through the media. An endless flood of images, at high speed and stripped of any context, that seems to freeze our ability to feel, turning proximity into a kind of numbness.

The research for While Taking Shape began from the desire to dive deeper into questions of connection and responsibility, from the need of insisting on the question of what it means to bear witness.

Choreographer Amparo González Sola explores this tension by bringing our attention to small gestures as portals to connection. Together with the performers, she explores the memories gestures carry—by embodying them, slowing them down, pausing, and reshaping them. What pasts and futures are hidden? How does a gesture in one body relate to those held by others?