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Us, the things.
A material world, full, overflowing.
Bodies adapting, meeting, transforming, learning themselves, recognizing themselves.
Affected.
Things change, break, endure; they are treasure, altar, and trash.
Us, the things, whole and in parts, alive forever, pulverized, in the air or in the earth, we exist eternally.
We are not going anywhere; we simply mix differently.

NOSOTRAS 

LAS COSAS

 

Nosotras las cosas (Us the things) is a stage device where we share and investigate possibilities of impact with different materialities, from a sensitive understanding of them.

 

This device takes the spatiality and choreographic dynamics of a fashion runway to appropriate and reconfigure it, in an attempt to dehierarchize the usual relationships between subject and object, the living and the inert, the human and the thing. We start from an almost cartographic imaginary that positions us as things, inviting us to a reflection that transcends the stage proposal to question ourselves politically and philosophically from an ecological perspective.

 

In this way, we seek to understand and share a material and emotional vision that displaces the human being from the center, highlighting a plane of existence and coexistence in which everything that exists has the capacity to influence others and is therefore extremely vibrant and vital.

 

 

2024

CREATION

Viviana Stagnaro, Viviana Machado, Ana Clara Jacques, Ana Clara Billar

DIRECTION AND MANAGEMENT

Ana Clara Jacques, Ana Clara Billiards

PERFORMERS 2024

Eugenia Torres, Emiliano Sánchez, Pable Machado, Paola Nargoli, Catalina Okuinghttons

MUSIC

Agustina Racchi

RECORD

Alfonso Cretenze, Reinaldo Altamirano, Luisa Camps

Things are a plastic bag, a mannequin's hand, a performer, a car mirror, or the sound of a beat. None is more important than the other. Everything present is necessary, vital. Manipulation ceases to be a human practice and becomes a practice of things in relation to other things.

All the materialities with which we coexist, whether tactile or invisible, flesh or plastic, carry a particular vitality that has the power to affect others. This is what theorist Bruno Latour defines as actants: an entity, whether human or not, that has the capacity to affect others.

 

 

 

NSTRSLSCSS emerged in 2021 as part of the Bachelor's Degree in Contemporary Dance at the Faculty of Arts - UDELAR. In 2021, I was a co-creator and performer of this work.

 

In 2024, we resumed this process with Ana Clara Jacques, inviting new performers to participate and placing ourselves in charge of directing the work. We premiered it in two performances, made possible thanks to the support of Centro Croma, which served as our home throughout the process and also during the openings.

 

 

 

 

 

“The ethical aim becomes to distribute value more generously, to bodies as such. Such a newfound attentiveness to matter and its powers … can inspire a greater sense of the extent to which all bodies are kin in the sense of inextricably enmeshed in a dense network of relations. And in a knotted world of vibrant matter, to harm one section of the web may very well be to harm oneself.”

 

Bennett, J. (2010)

 

 

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