countersense
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@joel.uve

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@joel.uve
A poetic journey through CARA’s mental labyrinth, blending choreographic and physical theatre, visual language, and immersive soundscapes into a sensorial experience. COUNTERSENSE confronts us with our own existence and with the fragile thresholds between life and death. The notion of the “stranger,” as well as our relationship to identity, technology, and the Other, is pushed to the point of absurdity: How can one exist in society today while remaining true to oneself?
Synopsis:
The story begins on an ordinary day in the life of CARA, secretary of the City of Namdal’s Department of Culture, who spends her day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in her “mobile office,” a desk strapped to her body. But on her way home, an accident occurs… upending the course of her life and plunging her into realities previously unimaginable.
She becomes the spirit of her angels and the body of her demons in an absurd journey through her own personal Hades.
Is this what it means to be dead?
Or perhaps, alive?
A piece that invites the audience to become observers of their own lives, to reconsider social codes and norms, and to envision the possibility of “symbolic” deaths and rebirths within a single existence
LABORATORY of Gestural Dramaturgy and Body Writing
Intended for adult individuals passionate about the performing arts and eager to delve deeper into the creative act.
Contents:
-Introduction to corporeal mime and the development of theatrical gestural techniques (Decroux, Lecoq).-Tools for listening to organic, rhythmic, and sonic movement.
-Creation of gestural dramatic structures based on the concept of «Countersense.»
Duration: Two to three hours per session, 3 days, with a final presentation.
Création 2023 - 2024
Première 23 Février 2025 au Teatro de las nobles bestias, Buenos Aires, Argentine
De et avec Erika Webe
Une création de la Compagnie ESPUMA
Conception et mise en scène Erika Webe
en complicité artistique avec Isabel Lagos
Regard extérieur compréhension visuelle Eric Whiteford
Musique originale & creation sonore Joel Heiras et Fred Marty
Regard extérieur Daniela Miranda
Régie générale et plateau Erwan Fontaine
Administration Aurélie Levraut
Production
Compagnie Espuma (Montreuil) en collaboration avec la Fondation Gathenhielmska Huset (Gothembourg, Suède)
Support
Culture Moves Europe
Partners
France: Théâtre l’Epée de Bois in Paris and Théâtre des Roches in Montreuil
Sweden: Lilla Kaparen and ACTA Theatre in Gothenburg
Argentina: Teatro de las Nobles Bestias and El Tanque Cultural in Buenos Aires
Italy: Zo Centro Culture Contemporanee and Catania Fringe Festival
England: Rotunda Theatre in Royal Tunbridge Wells
Spain–Catalonia: BCN Studio in Barcelona
Scotland: Summerhallarts in Edinburgh
United States: Soho PlayHouse in New York


This piece is part of the
Cultural Weavings Project




















