MANCHAS

EL CASTIGO DE ABUNDANCIA (The Punishment of Abundance)

Costume Designed for the hybrid Aesthetic-Dance-Circus solo performance by Lorena Madurga that can also fit into the Contemporary Circus Description. Manchas, The Punishment of Abundance depicts a mythic act where the story between a mother and her fifteen daughters - represented on the stage by oranges- is told.

The Narrative showcases the Abundance Goddess’ birth, life and death. The piece is about a certain maternity dwell between love and hatred in equal intensities. A constant duality between geometry and asymmetry, the sane and the putrefied. life and death is in vogue at all moments. It presents itself as a door to a fantastic world in which the birth entails a painful moment, life consists of constant change and death becomes a character on the stage, represented as a deity. It translates into calm, silence, and relaxation.

Manchas (Spanish for Stains) are the liquid marks that stay behind on the floor of the stage and on the costume, subsequent to the killing of all the daughters. They are the blood of the dead descendance.

The oranges represent the power of the Goddess, symbol of fertility and constant reproduction. They can simultaneously be a feast, symbolise temptation and the cause for the original syn.

This mythical storytelling is transmitted via a performative language, in which the movement and the object’s scenic presence narrates the actions that compose it.

The work takes inspiration on Medea’s figure and aspires to become its minimalistic abstract portrait. It strives to deep dive into the darkness of us all and put through the possibility of denial and destruction within familiar environments. It does in addition take base on the artwork “Garden of the Delights” by El Bosco.

The recreation of life through using food elements is not only present on the orange daughters, it also comes forward with the mask that Lorena uses to characterize herself as the Deity of Mother-Death.

The costume and its composing elements, the Mask and the Necklace/Bib - also ritualistic elements- have been designed in order to establish an Unison of Colour, Visual Identity and Mythological Imaginary to Manchas. Björk’s Fossora Album and its atmosphere is a great inspiration to its construction.

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Creation and Realisation by: Lorena Madurga

Dramaturgy by: Lorena Madurga and Rafa Jagat

Direction by: Rafa Jagat

Cyr Wheel Supervision by: Felipe Nardielo

Performance by: Lorena Madurga

Costume Design and Making by: Gabriela Lotaif

Sound Design by: Iris Deco

Open rehearsal Photography by: Clara Pedrol

With the Support of: Tub d’Assaig, Carpa Revolució, El corralito CCA, L’Estruch, La Central del Circ, Espai d’acompanyament.