Co-productions, Support, Creative Residencies, and Rehearsals in Progress

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The Espuma Company is collaborating with the Gathenhielmska Huset Foundation in Sweden, where Isabel Lagos serves as the artistic director. Together, Erika and Isabel are developing the Cultural Weavings project to create "bridges of visual language" as a tool for inclusion, communication, and artistic expression. A team of deaf and hearing artists and technicians has come together for this (https://www.theatrestate.art/researchanddevelopment)

CORNISA in a Life Border  is one of the key projects within this research and also a new challenge. From this concept a new projet comes up: CORNISA PROJECT: Be in body. This project seeks to create from a collective writing made from collaborative workshops with women at local and international scales. For further information:   https://www.espuma.org/ .

 

CORNISA in a  Life Border  project is a clown-theater piece that combines choreographycal theatre with projected scenography. It explores themes of madness and psychological, physical, and sexual trauma. Mental fragility, intrusion, and the invisibilization of bodies are central questions in the work.

Core question : Could madness become a refuge to protect oneself from the world?

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​SYNOPSIS

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Cornisa was once Cara, a secretary in the Department of Culture in the city of Namdal, Central Europe. Today, she finds herself in the visiting room of a psychiatric hospital where she resides. As she shares her story with a friend (the audience), different dramaturgical layers intertwine: reality, memory, and hallucinations.

Cornisa becomes the dancer of her nightmares and the skin of her ghosts, trapped in a mental labyrinth from which she longs to escape. She seeks a way back to reality, striving to establish a connection with the world in order to exist in society.

But what does it mean to exist in Western society as a woman today? 

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An ode to hope, resilience, and rebirth.

Cornisa, in a life border is a solo performance.

A work of fiction inspired by testimonies from women and the author herself.

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SEASON 2024 - 2025

Residency 1: February 2025, Puerta Abierta Dance Space (Porte Ouverte), Buenos Aires, Argentina: Choreographic creation exploring psychological disorder. A first phase of dramaturgical research and choreographic collaboration with Sol Ackerman. This phase delves into the traumatic awakening of a memory of abuse through an emotional journey, approaching trauma from a psychological perspective.

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Planned residencies:

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• Residency 2: Initial exploration of dramaturgy through images and movement.

• Residency 3: Study of hallucinations linked to natural elements.

• Residency 4: Beginning of video creation – exploration of projection & performance.

• Residency 5: Development of the dialogue between projections and character:

• reality, memory, and hallucination layers – Creation of the sound atmosphere.

SEASON 2023- 2024

Dramaturgical Research

• April 22 - 26, 2024 – Residency at ACTA Scen 46 Theater, Gothenburg, Sweden
  Writing and scenographic research in collaboration with Isabel Lagos.

• November 18 - 22, 2024 – Residency at Théâtre des Roches, Montreuil
  In collaboration with Alejandro Cortés.

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