Living an abject body

Performance dance piece
Dancers: Diana Betancourt Vill, Alonso Brenes Vargas, Dayron De León Castillo
Scenography and Audiovisual art: Alejandra Méndez Ramírez
Direction and dramaturgy: Amanda Méndez Ramírez

Performance dance piece
We move within the abjection from the beginning of life to death. This scenic realization questions abjections, body orifices, our waste and our own body as waste. At the same time, it dialogues with our own abjection, knowing that there are bodies that are considered as abjects and others that do not. Our bodies are disposable, expired, consumable and consumed. We problematize the privileges of our bodies and corporalities. We work with elements of theater dance, butoh dance and physical theater. We explore the relationship of the body with scenic objects and with the audiovisual: zooms, distancing.

The assembly presents the continuous struggle of the bodies and their resistance to abjection. It draws the line of life, and how the body, as an abject entity, is transformed throughout our existence; having its greatest peaks when we are born and when we die (the highest level of abjection of a body: the corpse). In the middle of these two points, there is the process of socialization, where the abject character takes a political role in relation to the bodies; that is, when relating to the other bodies (people), relationships of power and hierarchy arise between them, and it is determined which bodies / corporalities / performativities are more or less allowed and socially accepted.

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