SHAME ON US
How can we confront our ‘shame’? By reformulating it in openness and honest interest. To inhabit shame, to make ourselves radically vulnerable so that it becomes a form of criticism, trust and confidence. A plea to rethink shame, to think shame at all. A constant play with the ambiguity of our inner desires and what we think we have to censor. On the one hand, it plays with the audience‘s gaze. How the performers‘ bodies are observed while they direct the audience‘s gaze in a self-determined way. In a completely dark room, the performers scan each other with the light of their smartphones. They film each other. How do we look at the bodies of the performers? Who holds the power when you turn yourself into an object?
Concept, Choreography: Rebecca de Toro Performance: Héctor Espuela, Thorunn Gudmundsdottir, Aster Henderieckx, Émile Wendt Costume: Cécile Taylor Light Design: Rebecca de Toro
all photos ©Rojin Delfan
