About

“This is us, vulnerable, isolated, entirely self-contained yet altogether at the mercy of the elements. The ship of Fools is sailing tonight and all of us are aboard.”
Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

This piece researches into Desire and tensions it creates. Desire claims life, pleasure, self-fulfilment, freedom, but also causes frustration, denial, fear or disappointment. We live in a society, which is in discord with nature, trapped in domestic comfort of keeping control, following the set up rules. Are we ready to dive into the unknown?

We might be civilized but our needs might not.

Seven dancers. Seven dreams, seven wishes, seven possible conclusions, seven attempts to deconstruct identity.

Textual part of the show represents free adaptation from the works of Ray Loriga and Janette Winterson, together with thoughts and input of performers themselves.

LAURA ARIS ALVAREZ, BIO
Laura studied dance and choreography at the Instituto del Teatro/Escuela Superior de Danza y Coreografía in Barcelona, Spain. Between 1996 and 1999 she was part of Lanònima Imperial Dance Company from Barcelona. She was awarded Lladró Award for the Best Performer at Festival de Valencia 1999. She was also associated with General Electrica collective, where she collaborated on various productions by Tomás Aragay. Since 1999 Laura is living in Brussels where she was a member of Ultima Vez/ Wim Vandekeybus for the creations and touring of various performances and dance movies. Aris Alvarez regularly teaches workshops related to the Ultima Vez dance vocabulary and contemporary technique lessons internationally. Laura has also assisted Wim Vandekeybus at numerous workshops and auditions. In 2009 Laura Arís and Jorge Jáuregui created EMBER, an artistic platform that bears their works and collaborations. Since then they have been searching for their own artistic voice. They collaborate with several artists and their performances are being presented internationally. Together they created the duet La Era de los Cosmonautas; Impostura, where Laura as a dancer shares the stage with a singer Luciana Carlevaro; and a quartet Cola De Gallo, in collaboration with La Macana, Spanish Dance Company. Laura directed the performance Surprised By Joy, with twenty-four dancers of El Barco Taller Nacional de Danza, Costa Rica and El Buit as the second part of the Trilogy of the Unalterable, an international artistic project with artist from México, Russia and Spain commissioned by Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

The project has been realized with the support of Zagreb City Office for Culture, Education and Sport; the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and Zagreb City Tourist Board.

Trailer - Under the Eyelids