A performance by Tamara Erde
Production contact: Laetitia Silevant - laetitiasil@googlemail.com
To watch the Video from work-in-process in CASIS El Forn de La Calc residency:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTTbz13ENM
The work in progress “Forgotten Oceans” follows a series of artistic researches and projects by Tamara Erde, regarding the themes of exile and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as she transmits it to her visual and physical language.
In this project, Tamara is collecting testimonies from people in different countries and living environments, regarding their memories of their primal, first Home.
Those memories, documented by her in video, were a starting point to a choreographically and physical research, aiming to find, with the dancers, the way our body transmits and absorbs those memories related to spaces and its memories from spaces.
Another main inspiration source for the work have been the texts of the Palestinain poet Mahmoud Darwish, who has been writing a lot about his childhood memories from the house that was taken away from him, of his memories from his village to which ha can not return, and of his people's longing for their homeland.
Tamara has been working for quite a long time with the texts of Mahmoud Darwish as a main inspiration to her performances (such as in the piece ANA, created in collaboration with Israeli choreographer T.Borer and premiered in France in Montpellier Danse festival 2011, and the piece “A Soldier's dream”, created in 2010 and premiered in Stockholm Fringe festival 2010).
A third and highly important referential point of view, with which Tamara is working, is philosophical texts dealing with the issues of spaces, and the human memory and conception of spaces, as demonstrated in the texts of Gaston Bachelard “La Poetique de l'espace” and Daniel Sibony.
"Memories are motionless, and the more securely they are fixed in space, the sounder they are. For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates". (Gaston Bachelard)
The work is constructed by several parts, each dealing with a different motive of Home and it's physical and psychological perception as translated to scene.
Using various mediums, including a trio by three dancers, videos (Both documentary and abstract) and an object serving as a sound-making machine on live, the story of the three entities, trapped in a no-zone, is revealed.
The stage becomes a “no mans” land on which all characters are immigrants. Turning around, discovering the new space, the new land that is assumed to be their new “home”, again. A land on which they have no no past, no memories or acquaintance, and apparently no future either. They are doomed to eternal wonderings.
The piece is in development stages. The choreographic work begins on a months' residency in Spain, on August 2011, and is to be continued in Paris during 2011-2012, while a premier is planned between April-May 2012.
