Factum Haeretice is a hybrid intervention that combines experimental dance and performance. Inspired by the imaginaries of female heresy since the Middle Ages, it emphasises witchcraft and Christian mysticism from a dark, unashamed and contemporary perspective.
Starting with cleanliness as a spiritual goal and a marker of class and gender, the three sisters open cracks in an ambiguous act of submission, faith, healing and rebellion. They pierce through the law of work, perfectionism, control, production, identity and self-image through strategies of boycott, secrecy, dreaminess, witchcraft and laughter, allowing their own narratives to ooze and collide with the fictional character as part of an invitation to the risk of cracking the symbolic body.
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.