TESTIMONIO

2023

“Her presence is fading ... inside our memory. I keep on talking about her but her smell has left the room. As if she hadn’t left a mark... Her face is less and less distinct.
No matter how much people touch us, their faces are always first to disappear.
I think I still remember it ... but then I look at a picture of her and that’s who she becomes, that particular image has become the only face she’s ever had.

She’s no more than a myth.
The truth is, I can’t remember her face. I keep on looking back and I see that fucking smile over and over.
And it’s not even her smile, it’s that smile, from that picture, I see in every situation I think I recall because now that’s all what’s left of her , all I have is a version of who she’s been from a picture I didn’t even take, an impression of how she felt from stories others keep repeating.
Time passes and I romanticise, we all do, we all kill her ourselves bit by bit...
We make her colours bleed, one tear at the time and all we’re left with is a smudge of a painting we hold onto as if it was still her... but she’s gone.”

Choreography and script: Pascal Marty
Choreographic assistant: Sarah Matry-Guerre

Costume design: Jérôme Delbey

Music: J.S.Bach, Hélène Vogelsinger, Jean-Michel Blais, SebastiAn and Greg Haines
Light Design: Diego Vasquez
Performers: Ana Laura Barragan, Estefanía Gomez, Leandro Beiro, Andrés Arámbula, Cristina Rueda, Fernando Ursuga, Hector Leon, Paulina Segura, María O’Reilly, Nadia Ramon, Carla Robledo, Vianey Rodriguez.

Commissionned by Diego Vasquez for the Taller Coreografico de la U.N.A.M.