countersense
On Tour 2025
Photos by Peter Horvat at the Premiere, 23.02.2025, Theatre of Noble Beasts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
COUNTERSENSE is a choreographic, physical, and visual theatre piece.
It confronts us—through a sensory journey—with our very existence, exploring the borderlands between life and death within an imaginary society where mechanisation drains the spirit to the point of extinction.
This piece acts as a revealer of solitude, of estrangement from oneself and from Others.
How can one remain true to oneself and exist in society with the omnipresence of technology?
How can we resist the artificial?
Synopsis:
The story begins with an ordinary day in the life of CARA, a secretary at the Department of Culture in the city of "Namdal."
She spends eight hours a day in her "mobile-office," which is physically attached to her body. She leaves her desk, crosses the bustling city, and returns home.
An unexpected event disrupts her life and draws us into a vertiginous journey with her—into Hades, far beyond anything previously imaginable.
Is this death, or is it life?
One thing is certain: it is the unknown.
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
Collaboration chorégraphique Elena Sadkova
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)
Soutien
Culture Moves Europe et et la région de Västra-Götaland Lieux Partenaires
Résidences et Partenariats
En France : Théâtre l’Epée de Bois à Paris, Théâtre des Roches, IVT (International Visual Theatre), EIMCD (Ecole International de Mime Corporel Dramatique), Association Garde la Pêche, Faun’arts, la Parole Errante à Montreuil.
En Suède : Lilla Kaparen, Théâtre Stormen, Théâtre ACTA à Gothenbourg
This piece is part of the
Cultural Weavings Project
