Sandpit
In Sandpit, Simone Lorenzo Benini and Miriam Budzáková turn sand into a metaphor for the body, a vessel of infinite possibilities, exploring the ambiguity of our memories, which are often vague and blend with imagination, fears and desires. The body becomes a medium through which memories come to life. Those memories do not simply resurface; they transform and create desires, the libido, new identities and alter egos that we all carry inside us but seldom express. Here, sand becomes a symbolic tool for this transformation. Memories transform into new possibilities of being, merging the past and the present, adopting a variety of ambiguous shapes, drawing on the subconscious and allowing energies, emotions, images and fantasies to surface.
Credits:
Initial idea Simone Lorenzo Benini
Creation & performance Miriam Budzáková, Simone Lorenzo Benini
Dramaturgical consultant Julischka Stengele
A co-production by Bears in the Park, WUK performing arts, brut Wien and AiEP.
With support from Anticorpi XL – ResiDance XL, Circuito CLAPS – Intercettazioni – Residency center Lombardia, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Teatro Petrella di Longiano, Iter Culture – Teatri Riflessi, REZI.dance Komařice and Movimento Danza Napoli.
