AUSENCIA (Die Abwesenden)

AUSENCIA The Absent is an artistic statement towards the violent disappearances in Mexico, Latin America and the world. Shifting movements explore the path between individual grief and collective action. Personal pain meets, unites and transforms into a web of mutually supportive hands. On stage, dancers, along with sound design, set design, and the presence of the audience, allow a collective body to emerge. How can those who are missing be embodied and honored? We create therefore what we call floating bodies, which can hold those memories.

Andrea Marlis Krohn and Karina Suárez Bosche – dance and choreography / Yi-Jou Chuang – stage / Carlos André Rico – live sound / Cheng-Ting Chen – artistic collaborator / Barbara Schmidt Rohr – dramaturgical consulting / David Goméz Alzate – video documentation

Music: Banda Sinfónica Juvenil Músicos de Tiríndaro, Composer: Juan Carlos Guerrero
Text from: Lolita Bosch, Campos de Amapola, Antes de Esto, Una novela sobre el narcotráfico en México. Production: PARAR / Immersive Performance Art, K3/Zentrum für Choreographie Hamburg.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, by the Hamburg Cultural Foundation and by the Erlebnis Kunst Stiftung

Presented in: Limited Edition Hamburg/K3. Dance in Response Festival / Hamburg and Urbanraum/Berlin.