Urban Flesh

Release

The limit of meat in a fabric torn by urban relations. It is to reach the entrails. To embody. Beyond the skin, we reach the flesh, which generates movement and makes the urban come alive. An incessant flow of exchanges between body and city. A body guided by appearances, by image, by the search for longevity. A body that denies death and becomes a slave to survival.

Each one’s solitude and silence amid the chaos of our existence, at the limits of urban life. In its endless search for relief, to numb itself, to drug itself, in order to be freed from the pain of existing, to become frustrated, to err. Often, it is to be there and not belong, needing an emptying at the threshold of the dead body. It is necessary to lose, to let it die, to perceive the body that withers, gags, stalls, stops, rots. And to go on, even with the dystopia of a place that reveals gestures that almost give up, that abandon.

The work seeks to reflect on the physicality of urban bodies and the transformations of the body, revealing perceptions that are sometimes silenced internally and sometimes laid bare in the ensemble, and that emanate in this exhibition of flesh.

 

Photos: Roberto Assem, Laís Barros, Renato Nomura and Isis Gasparini.

 

Full material: Photos, Release, Technical Sheet, Stage Maps, Sound and Lighting.
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Video:

 

Technical Sheet

General Direction and Concept: Igor Gasparini

Creator-Performers: Arthur Alves, Igor Gasparini, Lucas Pardin, Luiz Paulo Raguza, Marcia Marcos, Maria Emília Gomes, Maju Kaiser, Natália Moura and Pasha Gorbachev.

Dramaturgical Provocation: Thiago Alixandre

Physical Provocation: Igor Gasparini, Frank Tavanti, Eduardo Fukushima, Márcio Greyk, Rafi Sahyoun, Robson Ferraz, and Thiago Alixandre.

Lighting Design and Illumination: Natália Peixoto

Sound Design and Concept: Herí Brandino

Costumes: Mayara Rosa

Duration: 60min

Rating: 14 years