Sancha Meca Castro
☉ Sky Casting
Performance
21 Mar. 15:15
Sismógrafo
45'
Taking the skin as an interface, the place as a counterpart, and disruption as a boycott of narrative continuity, Sky Casting explores the place of fear in a body caught between control and the sensory. From processes of evasion, third-person dances, emotional artifacts, abandonment of logic, and division of agencies, gestural and sonic patterns emerge. One manipulates when one is a whole body, a multiple body, or only parts. One tests the power of fearlessness and revisits the question of how one can surrender to a noise that one cannot understand but perhaps can feel. Anchored in queer quantum physics theory, Sancha works with improvisation as a means of relating to place, and repulsion as a central element of attraction. Sky Casting is an essay on collapse as the starting point for the end of fear.
Choreography, performance, and materials:
Sancha Meca Castro
Music:
Inês Malheiro
Costumes:
Miruna Vlad
Artistic accompaniment and dramaturgical support:
Toni Steffens and Ana Rocha
Rehearsal assistance:
Nara Gonçalves and Nika Faescke
Special thanks to
Carolina Araújo, Maria Novo, and Hayden Bouvet
Sancha
is a performer, choreographer, and transdisciplinary artist. Interested in the absurd and the bizarre, she works through speculative practices on the nature of objects, archives, and gestures. Her movement practice explores tangible matter and invisible materialities, such as fictions, value creation, ruins, collapsing emotions, and other memories. She studied sculpture at Fbaup, dance at BDI, and choreography at SNDO. She has presented work in Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.
Sancha Meca Castro
☉ Sky Casting
Performance
21 Mar. 15:15
Sismógrafo
45'
Taking the skin as an interface, the place as a counterpart, and disruption as a boycott of narrative continuity, Sky Casting explores the place of fear in a body caught between control and the sensory. From processes of evasion, third-person dances, emotional artifacts, abandonment of logic, and division of agencies, gestural and sonic patterns emerge. One manipulates when one is a whole body, a multiple body, or only parts. One tests the power of fearlessness and revisits the question of how one can surrender to a noise that one cannot understand but perhaps can feel. Anchored in queer quantum physics theory, Sancha works with improvisation as a means of relating to place, and repulsion as a central element of attraction. Sky Casting is an essay on collapse as the starting point for the end of fear.
Choreography, performance, and materials:
Sancha Meca Castro
Music:
Inês Malheiro
Costumes:
Miruna Vlad
Artistic accompaniment and dramaturgical support:
Toni Steffens and Ana Rocha
Rehearsal assistance:
Nara Gonçalves and Nika Faescke
Special thanks to
Carolina Araújo, Maria Novo, and Hayden Bouvet
Sancha
is a performer, choreographer, and transdisciplinary artist. Interested in the absurd and the bizarre, she works through speculative practices on the nature of objects, archives, and gestures. Her movement practice explores tangible matter and invisible materialities, such as fictions, value creation, ruins, collapsing emotions, and other memories. She studied sculpture at Fbaup, dance at BDI, and choreography at SNDO. She has presented work in Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.