Something is Approaching
In this new work, Carolina Mendonça continues her investigation into violence — not in its immediate explosion, but in its afterlife. Something is Approaching looks beyond the moment of the violent act to trace its long-term effects: the way violence settles into muscle, shapes attention, distorts imagination. If Zones of Resplendence imagined an army rising against sexual violence, this new piece lingers with what violence implants in us: tension, rumination, a sort of damnation, a muscular readiness.
What if our muscles are not only sites of trauma, but also of resistance? What if they have been rehearsing — quietly, daily — for the moment of return? For the moment to fight back?What type of stories are stuck to our tissues that could be released by a single jolt, a sudden movement — a bullet?
This is a choreography of muscular dreams. Bodies that once froze begin to stir — charged by years of imagined confrontations. Ghostly bodies find a space where their haunting can pause. Dreaming becomes a kind of training — a rehearsal for defense. Choreography, a way of sharpening.
© Sepideh Farvardin
Matias Gutierrez
Matias Gutierrez
Crédits
Concept, direction and text: Carolina Mendonça Co-creation: Lara ferrari tummma Performance: Anna Fedoronchuk Dramaturgy and research partner: Carolina Bianchi Light Design and Space: Leticia Skrycky, Laura Salerno Sound/music: Charlie Usher Somatic and Choreographic accompaniment: Catalina Insignares Costume: Stef Assandri Costume Assistance: Santiago Celio Cioli Production: Hiros Co-production: workspacebrussels, Beursschouwburg, BUDA Residency support: Proximamente – KVS, residency programme at PACT Zollverein (Essen), funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Tenerife LAV, Kunstenwerkplaats With support from: Vlaamse Gemeenschap Thanks to: Aljoscha Begrich, Andrea Rodrigo, Arkadi Zaides, Coreia, Dudu Quintanilha, Elisa Liepsch, Ella De Gregoriis, Fernanda Farah, José Ramón Hernández, Larissa Ballarotti, Lucrecia Masson, Miguel Penaranda Olmeda, Sara Manente, Sima Djabar Zadegan