INTRODUCTION
In this exposition, we want to present the process of conceptual creation, performance and reflection related with the work Espelho meu. This performance/installation for voice, body and image encloses in its description some of the key issues to be developed in the next few pages. The performance itself relates directly with the core of the physical manifestation of a concept, of a thought. It comes with the strong belief, expressed during this text, that the creation of new performances is the only effective way to develop the contemporary performative scene. The second layer is present in the installation. It points out to an important issue in this work and an interesting concept that we have been developing in this and other performances/works: the performative resonance. This concept works around the concepts of time and the related ephemerality of performance. For this purpose, it’s also described the relevant role of technology, granting us the possibility of materializing our conceptual ideas in the performance and installation.
Following the path showed in the performance’s title description we arrive to the voice and body. The voice, inseparable of the body in our assumptions, works here as an interface that connects the inner thoughts with the exterior world of sounds. In this context, and with a strong improvisation drive, we reflect on its expressive role, always linked with the body, and, in this case, linked with a text.
At last it’s also referred the visual layer of this work, through the video projection. This reveals the multidisciplinary characteristic of Espelho meu, important for the increment of layers for those who receive the final object. The way to relate with the audience is also object of reflection as we wish to facilitate a moment where the audience deeply penetrates the work and find its own way through it.
Espelho meu is structured on a constant overlapping of different layers of contents and time. This creates, in each moment, a renewed space-time relationship, promoting a permanent internal movement, a metamorphosis that, conceptually, never ends.