BEHOLD A ROMANTIC ACT
Direction and Choreography by Richard Mascherin.
A work co-produced by Teatros del Canal - CCC.
60 minutes.
Contemporary dance / Theater.
What hurts the most, a punch in the nose or a kiss in the lips?
Is hating another way of loving?
Do you want me to give myself to you?
Would you still love me if I didn’t need you?
Can I fall over with you?
What is a romantic act?
“Behold a romantic act” works with both physical and emotional falls to create a map of uprooted bodies thrown away into the void. Displaying a tense physicality and a cinematic
atmosphere, the piece revolves around three victims who asume – in a ceremonial mood - a spiral of violent situations, turning accidents and provocations, attachments and detachments
into a sacred rite of passage towards transcendence.
Their passionate surrender has two sides; on the one hand, it intoxicates and endangers, while, on the other, it strengthens and vivifies, as no one can get up from the ground before having previously fallen into it.
Behold the statement of an unbroken soul. Behold a heroic resistance. Behold a romantic act.