SED (Thirst)

Tuesday, October 6 at 7 pm

Sed (Thirst) is a trance through water, a collective journey that explores the experience of overflow as an occasion of passage —from the breaking of waters to the great flood—, always at the limit between pleasure and violence, agony and desire, life and death.

Inspired by female heresy since the Middle Ages, this performance transforms the universe of mysticism and of cleaning as manual labor. Four figures open fissures in an ambiguous act of submission/rebellion, resistance/faith. They pierce the law of labor with strategies of flooding, machine, hyperbole and mystery, letting water and body shift from being resources to becoming forces of transformation. 

Warning: This performance contains strobe light and may not be suitable for people with photosensitive epilepsy.

Performers: Karina Silver, Leonor de Meer, Orphée Gokpon, Marta Crespo
Sound Design / Live Electronics: Lengleng
Technical Coordination and Lighting Design: David Corral
Lighting technician: Maria Elisabetta Casco
Costumes: Miruna Vlad, Marta Crespo
Artistic Mentorship: Fernando Belfiore, María Gabriela Iasparra, Aitana Cordero

Marta Crespo (Barcelona, 1997) is a performance artist and researcher. Her practice develops latent questions, discomforts and desires through situated physical processes, working from pathos, movement and language. Having graduated in Hispanic Philology (UB) and with a master’s degree in Theatre Studies (UAB, IT), she completed her institutional training with a degree in Choreography from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam. She is the creator of pieces such as Romantic Doll, Hysterica Passio, Shattered Fantasy and The Passion (Admiring Kazuo Ohno Admiring La Argentina), which were produced and premiered in Amsterdam.