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.

A dancer performing on stage, in a deep lunge pose with arms extended wide and head tilted back, dressed in a beige fringed costume.
Artistic photograph of two androgynous models with fringe accessories on shoulders and faces, one facing forward and the other facing away, with a plain white background.

Press:

“It’s about the fleeting memory of that vital energy, something that punches you in the stomach, something that simply takes your breath away.”

Reforma, Francisco Morales V.

Jérôme Delbey

A dancer lying on the floor with another person standing behind her, in front of a warmly lit stage with orange and yellow hues.
Ballet dancer performing on stage in a pose with one arm extended upward and the other arm extended sideways, wearing a flowing costume, against a dark background.
Two ballet dancers perform on stage with a plain orange background. One dancer supports the other in a pose, both wearing neutral-colored costumes and socks.
Group of dancers in costume performing on stage with hands raised, illuminated against a dark background.
A female ballet dancer performing on stage in a dark setting, wearing a red dress, with one arm raised and the other extended downward, standing on her toes.
A dancer in a beige and black outfit performing a high leg stretch on stage.
Two ballet dancers perform on stage with a dark background. One dancer stands upright in a red dress, while the other is on the floor in a stretch position wearing beige costume and a headpiece.
Group of seven women bowing on stage in costumes, with one woman in a red dress holding a pole on the right side, against a black background.
Dance performance on stage with dancers in costumes, some standing and some in crouched positions, against a plain tan background.
Dancer group performing on stage, wearing light-colored costumes with fringe, under dark lighting.
Dance performers in beige fringed costumes on a dark stage, some standing and some lying on the floor, with dramatic lighting.

Photos (c) Taly Rish