Alone Together
Perfomance de Joanna Brabo (España)
Estreno
Alone Together is a performance, a piece of live art that invites the viewer to experience their intimacy through their senses. A fast-paced journey through different realities, common and everyday situations where themes such as anxiety, abusive relationships, belonging, the feminine and quitting smoking form the common thread of these stories intertwined in a vertiginous poetic prose.
Alone Together takes up and honors the musical theme of that name, a contemporary classic performed by Miles Davis, Chet Baker and Bill Evans. Alone but together: united by jazz, by art, by words. United by the cell phone, by melancholy, by distance. United, isolated, connected by loneliness.
The piece was pre-premiered at the Teatro la Gleva, Barcelona (where the artist has been a resident), to excellent reviews. The premiere and launch of the text of the show in audiobook format will take place in March in Barcelona. The official premiere in Mexico City will be at the Museo Universitario del Chopo. As part of an international tour, it will be performed in New York at the Kerouac Festival.
Somnis de Teatres, Gema Moraleda's Spanish theater critic blog, remarks that “The voice is one of a performer’s most powerful tools. Any text multiplies its evocative effects if told in a good voice. A well-placed, practiced, nuanced voice can send us on a journey to other places, other moments, other sensations, other emotions. And it is clear that Joana Brabo knows well that using only her voice and a few sound effects she carries us from city to city, from situation to situation, to the rhythm of the anxiety about an unlit cigarette. This is a tribute to the word, to the story, to poetry.”
February 8, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Free entry
Text, concept and execution: Joana Brabo
Lighting Design: Josep Maria Civit
Soundscape: Joana Brabo
Sound Consultant: Pepino Pasqual
Poster Photography: Eugenia Ortiz
Joana Brabo (Menorca, España). Creadora y performer. Sus piezas muestran ingenio y sencillez al desvincular las palabras del formato libro convirtiéndolas en un juego performático (presentándose en diferentes teatros, museos y festivales de poesía y arte sonoro como Macba, Sala Beckett, Antic Teatre, Kosmópolis, Festival de Poesía de BCN; Yuxtaposiciones, MAD; Vociferio, VAL; Feira Parte, SP Brasil; The Nuyorican, La Nacional, Nueva York, entre otros), así como como a nivel gráfico, exponiendo sus poemas visuales y caligrafías en todo tipo de soportes desde su proyecto EN3PALABRAS a los autobuses de Tarragona. Participa en los laboratorios Filosofía y Teatro, y Escritura en Vivo, ambos de la Sala Beckett de Barcelona.
