This is a story that has as
much to do with the dead as with opening the registers of what
is audible, a story of training as channellers, a story of
conversations that take place amid very loud frequencies, a
story about (missed) encounters with the dead in which we
sometimes failed to understand one another.
Creation & performance: Carolina Mendonça & Catalina
Insignares
Sound collaboration: Edy Giraldo
Photos: Dijana Zadro
This is a story that has as
much to do with the dead as with opening the registers of what
is audible, a story of training as channellers, a story of
conversations that take place amid very loud frequencies, a
story about (missed) encounters with the dead in which we
sometimes failed to understand one another.
Creation & performance: Carolina Mendonça & Catalina
Insignares
Sound collaboration: Edy Giraldo
Photos: Dijana Zadro
Carolina Mendonça
is a choreographer, performer and dramaturge. Her projects
include 'Zones of Resplendence' (2023), 'Sirens' (2021), 'Pulp -
History as a Warm Wet Place' (2018), 'useless land' (2018) in
collaboration with Catalina Insignares, and 'We, the Undamaged
others' (2017). She develops practical, theoretical research
that she shares in workshops dealing with telepathy, levitation,
and deep listening. As a dramaturge, Carolina works with
Carolina Bianchi, Marcelo Evelin, Marcela Santander, and Dudu
Quintanilha, among others.
Catalina Insignares is a
Colombian choreographer based in Brussels. She’s interested in
how to use the sensorial and fictional means of the body and
touch to develop ways to communicate with the invisible. Her
practice includes, among others, a duet danced with a
participant over a few weeks ('us as a useless duet', 2015), a
night reading addressed to sleeping bodies ('useless land',
2017), and sensory practices that listen to the connections we
have with the dead ('landscapes of the dead', 2019; 'to know the
vultures so well', 2022). She works through collaboration and
long-term associations for choreography, dramaturgy, teaching
and performance.
Carolina Mendonça
is a choreographer, performer and dramaturge. Her projects
include 'Zones of Resplendence' (2023), 'Sirens' (2021), 'Pulp -
History as a Warm Wet Place' (2018), 'useless land' (2018) in
collaboration with Catalina Insignares, and 'We, the Undamaged
others' (2017). She develops practical, theoretical research
that she shares in workshops dealing with telepathy, levitation,
and deep listening. As a dramaturge, Carolina works with
Carolina Bianchi, Marcelo Evelin, Marcela Santander, and Dudu
Quintanilha, among others.
Catalina Insignares is a
Colombian choreographer based in Brussels. She’s interested in
how to use the sensorial and fictional means of the body and
touch to develop ways to communicate with the invisible. Her
practice includes, among others, a duet danced with a
participant over a few weeks ('us as a useless duet', 2015), a
night reading addressed to sleeping bodies ('useless land',
2017), and sensory practices that listen to the connections we
have with the dead ('landscapes of the dead', 2019; 'to know the
vultures so well', 2022). She works through collaboration and
long-term associations for choreography, dramaturgy, teaching
and performance.
