TWO ROADS

//2019

Creative process and rehearsals developed at The Plaxall Gallery in New York for the chamber opera project Two Roads, produced by CreArtBox New York and written for mezzo-soprano, actress, choir, dance ensemble, piano, electronics, and percussion.

Although framed as an opera, this project adopts an interdisciplinary approach from the outset, generating a strong dialogue between choreography, narrated voice, and musical composition.

Two Roads explores inner thoughts and past decisions in an attempt to describe or envision a future self—or generation.

Throughout the rehearsal process and the search for the work’s choreographic and stage language, the focus is on bodies that move forward from a place of difficulty, anchored to the past; bodies that break, that physically experience their mental blocks. Bodies that advance backwards, that are manipulated, and that at times find moments of freedom.

Spaces are created for contemplation and observation, for the search for collective energetic balance, and for walking through slowness—attentive to every micro-movement—while an adult, experienced voice narrates with emotional restraint, from an external and almost clinical observation of its own words.

CREATIVE TEAM

Concept, music and dramaturgy: Guillermo Laporta

Stage direction and choreography: Tagore González

Set and costume design: Isis de Coura

Executive production: Josefina Urraca

Production: CreArtBox (New York)

CAST

Dancers: Mary Taylor Hennings y Can Wan

Soprano: Ariadne Greif

Baritone: Nathaniel Sullivan

Actress: Julie Berndt

Piano: Josefina Urraca