LA GRAVEDAD DE LA COSA

“The Gravity of the Thing” takes the theories of gravitation from Newton, Einstein, and Stephen Hawking and immerses us in an experience that questions the limits of perception. It progresses differentially through time, dilating it, so that in its wake a spectral body, an organic one, and an indeterminate one emerges.

The experience then unfolds amidst multidirectional oscillations that arise between the anthropomorphic and the amorphous, between real experience and science fiction, between movement and pause… This creation was the result of a production I directed with the Dance Company of the National University of the Littoral. It premiered on May 12, 2012, at the 8th Argentine Dance Festival and ran for two consecutive seasons at the Cultural Forum in the city of Santa Fe. In 2013, it was invited for the second consecutive year to the Argentine Dance Festival.

Concept, Direction, and Choreography: Edgardo Mercado
Performers: Mauro Cappadoro, César Ignacio Carosela, Sergio Coronel, Mariano Dufour
Choreographic Assistance: Claudia Correa
Choreographic Collaboration: Claudia Correa, Mauro Cappadoro, César Ignacio Carosela, Sergio Coronel, Mariano Dufour
Original Soundtrack: Edgardo Martínez
Costume Design: Facundo Ternavasio
Set and Lighting Design: Mario Pascullo

This work was produced by the Secretariat of Culture of the UNL (National University of the Littoral)