MANIFESTATIONS
In preparing for MANIFESTATIONS, the performers went through sight deprivation, smell overstimulation, fear-inducing night walks, virtual reality escape rooms, experimental eating sessions and rollercoaster rides. Their spontaneous verbal reactions were recorded and will be in-ear audio-prompted back to them so they can mimic their own reactions and activate them on stage for the audience. Navaridas playfully blends the authenticity of lived experiences with the make-believe situation of the theatre, looking for fake realities in real fakeness. MANIFESTATIONS both questions the structure and conventions of the black box theatre and pays a performative homage to the endless fictional scenarios that can be activated through the imagination.
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born in San Sebastián, Spain, started to train ballet and karate at the age of four. She holds a master’s degree in Translation from UPF Barcelona and a bachelor’s in Choreography from AHK Arnhem. She also guest-studied at the Mime department of HKA Amsterdam for two years. Since 2008, she has been creating text-based performances together with Alex Deutinger. Selected works: Emancipation of Wonder, I Would Like to Be a Better Person, Octopus, Your Majesties. Since 2015, she has also produced her own performances: The Battle, I Swear, Onírica and Stomach. Her works shuffle texts, live music and gestures in unpredictable ways, playfully questioning social formats as well as habits of perception. Based in Graz, Austria, and touring internationally, she presents her work in performing venues, as well as at galleries and museums.
Credits
Concept, choreography Marta Navaridas Text, performance Alexandru Cosarca, Beatrice Frey, Alice Peterhans as Alex Deutinger, Julia Franz Richter, Alex Zehetbauer Live electronics, sound design Manuel Riegler Costumes Annemarie Arzberger Stage design, make-up artist Georg Klüver-Pfandtner Light design Bruno Pocheron Outside eye Lau Lukkarila Thanks to Frans Poelstra, Juliette Eröd Production management mollusca productions Production PERFORMANCEINITIATIVE 22 Coproduction Tanzquartier Wien Supported by The City of Graz, the Province of Styria, the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports, ACT OUT, a project by IG Freie Theaterarbeit, funded by the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Tanzhaus Zurich
In English and German