MODAFE, International Spark Place #2

[Performance Introduction] Lalel Pillora <Breeze through the soul> We often live our lives barely noticing our own breath. Breathing flows naturally into every moment of daily life, such as speaking, walking, eating, and sleeping. But what if we were to become fully conscious of it? What would change if we focused deeply on the flow of breath in every moment and fully realized its continuity? As performers, we explore how breath affects emotions and sensations. Throughout the work, we experiment with the potential of breath, examining its impact on movement while simultaneously observing how movement shapes breath. Through this process, we observe the profound action of breath on our existence and reveal the wonder hidden between inhalation and exhalation. Elena Puchol Sola <NO HAY HUECO EN EL JARDIN> No hay hueco en el jardin is a work that deals with personal reflection arising from abandonment. It explores how one positions oneself in the face of this experience, how one navigates internal conflicts, and the unconscious, constant desire for connection and moving forward together. By not revealing the performer's face, the work erases identity and dehumanizes the body, creating a new state where identical beings interact incessantly. They form a cycle of action and reaction within a repetitive structure of space and time. This atmosphere is depicted as a space like a vast garden that absorbs everything, detached from the common sense and human world, placing the characters in a setting that is both comedic and novelistic. Marine Fernandez <Centifolia> Centering on the relationship with the female body, this work explores aging, change, and socially constructed standards of beauty. Through the image of a rose losing its petals over time, it retraces how the sense of femininity, formed while being praised for childhood "beauty" and "cuteness," affects individual identity. Combining movement, voice, and theatrical imagery, this work reveals the tension between innocence, desire, and social expectations, while simultaneously reinterpreting aging not as decline, but as a process of deepening the body and perception. Through poetic and playful scenes and moments of reflection, the work proposes a new perspective on femininity that changes and is performed through time. Xiong Jiangyi <Nomadism of the Body> If not wandering, then only decay. Nomadism and movement are the paths of life. Memories engraved in the flesh are eternal coordinates. How are cultural genes latent in the bloodlines transmitted and mutated through the finest rhythms? Deep within the body of every individual, does there exist a "meadow of the mind" that allows us to wander eternally without ever truly departing? Taking the physical transformation of nomadic culture as a path, this work explores the dynamic aspects of identity that persist between tradition and modernity, and between the collective and the individual. Ultimately, it seeks to visualize the constantly flowing field of the body and the iconography of life.