May 30 /Thursday/, 7 pm
Plovdiv Drama Theatre - Chamber Hall
Official Opening
OBLIVION
CÍA SILVIA BATET - Spain
Original idea, direction and choreography: Silvia Batet
Performance: Cristina Reolid, Agnès Balfegó,, Raquel Romero, Anna Serra, Pere Seda
Music: Sergi Puig
Musical edition: Jose González
Scenography and lighting: Carles Borràs, Sergio Roca
Costumes: Marta Mas Soldevila
Skirt making: Anna Whirling
Production: Muntsa Roca - Lila Brick
External look: Anna Rubirola
Video and photography: Mila Ércoli
OBLIVION is a word that implies "to be forgotten",but that can also be related to the idea of amnesty or forgiveness; it is a place of transformation, between mourning and emptiness, between nothingness and memory. Based in a dreamlike world made of fantasy and surrealism, OBLIVION could be an image of afterlife, such as Dante describes it in The Divine Comedy: a space conditioned by the idea of the circle, by the eternal wandering of bodies through space; as if in the act of moving through space there was ultimately an act of surrender, a renunciation of everything that binds us to suffering: desire, memories, identity. “Vacare” in Latin, means to wander, to float; but it also means "to be empty". OBLIVION is a path that becomes easier to walk everytime, a dance of increasing entropy. After all, what is beyond and oblivion could easily be the same thing.
Cia Silvia Batet is a dance company based in Barcelona. The company was formed in 2019 and has since created
three dance pieces (Réquiem, " Oblivion" and “Sacrée”). OBLIVION won in 2020 the important Choreographic Award “Premi de Dansa de l’Institut del Teatre”. The company has participated in numerous spanish festivals:
Russafa Escènica (Valencia), Ellas Crean (Madrid), Quinzena Metropolitana de Dansa (Barcelona),
and abroad in Florence Dance Festival (Florence), Istanbul Fringe Festival (Istanbul), Prospettiva Danza Teatro (Padua), Akropoditi Dance Festival (Greece), Hannover Choreography Competition (Germany) and Quinzena de Dansa de Almada (Portugal).