CODED RITUALS
IDEA AND CREATION: CAMILA SCHOLTBACH & CISTIFELLEA COLLECTIVE
Stage direction, BÜHNE UND 360 VIDEO: Elena Tilli
Performer and choreographer: Camila Scholtbach
Sound/INTERACTIVE SOUND DESIGN: Nico Yurgaki
Coproduction: Theater Im Depot, Cistifellea Collective
FOTO: LUZ PHOTO DESIGN DORTMUND
CODED RITUALS
Coded Rituals is an investigation that starts from the vision of “the human” as a cultural construction. What has been left inside and outside this construction? How is it dehumanized within the rhetoric of the control of women’s bodies? How is the same done from cultural appropriation? What do we understand as human? Is it something that covers us all? These are necessary questions to confront the idea of the post-human. On stage, Camila Scholtbach, through the body, and Nico Yurgaki, through sound, propose three different phases of a ritual that, groping, seeks to connect with the power of magic, of the metaphysical search, of the inexplicable, of the contact with the alchemical forces that seem to be uncontrollable for us. First the private, individual ritual, that of recognizing oneself as someone apart from the world, an entity of one’s own, with one’s own will and desires. The second is the milestone ritual, the ritual that makes us part of a community, an achievement, an event on a social scale that situates us, by which others recognize us in the world and we are given a role, a name, a common human characteristic. A third ritual in search of collective ecstasy leads us to break the parameters of the constructed identity and connects us with the primary energy of expression through movement and sounds, giving space to the impulses and the incomprehensible in ourselves. Rather than an explanation of what post-human can mean or give an answer, it is an exploration and a questioning of what is considered human or not through the expression of ritual.
Camila Scholtbach & Cistifellea Collective
Performer and choreographer:Camila Scholtbach
Sound design and live sound:Nico Yurgaki
Stage direction:Elena Tilli
Costumes:Yvonne Dicketmüller
Coproduction:Theater Im Depot, Cistifellea Collective