Distance
Virtual play
Multiple screens. 5 musicians on stage. 4 actresses live in Paris, Hamburg, Buenos Aires and New York. Love trough 7000km intervened by an eclectic fusion of happy memories, melancholic melodies, family archives, hidden files, images of oblivion, delirious consumption. This unique set up developed by Matias Umpierrez, challenges the boundaries of stage, opening the doors of the theatre into the virtual era multiplying the stimulus resulting in a set up plagued by action and intensity.
With this show we try to reveal how the theatre can enter into the virtual system, taking its signs and stimulation to cross their own boundaries. In Distancia, the stage broadens and quintuples in a virtual way, thanks to a real time operated streaming. The text is built in 4 languages, and it’s decoded by the simultaneous text and sound, at the same time the dramaturgy weaves with the hypertext *hyperlink*. The time dimension became relative> there is a present that unfolds itself in the simultaneity of different time uses.
The sound and the music interlace in a virtual way thanks to the manipulation of instruments and voices that come electronically trough the distance. The audience can relate to its experience as a user of modern technologies, living, editing, and operating in their own minds the reality that is being offered. At last, we assist to virtual theatre piece, penetrating into a world that exists only for the observer /in the short time they are a part of it/ and that will persist in the memory of a computer.
Crédits:
Cast
Marina Bellati | Live from Buenos Aires | Argentina
Marie Piemontese | Live from París | France
April Sweeney | Live from New York | United States
Anne Weber | Live from Hamburg | Germany
Musicians
Sebastián Roascio Goldar | Drums
Augustín Uriburu, Lucas Argomedo | Cello & Guitar
Santiago Mazzanti | Bass
Javier Martinez | Violin
Rafael Sucheras | Piano
German translation: Maren Schiefelbein
English translation: Patricia Masera, April Sweeney
French Translation: Julie Coupet
Music: Rafael Sucheras
Set designer: Mariana Tirantte
Systems design: Matías Fabro
Photo: Sebastian Arpesella
Assistance mapping: Alejandro Magneres
Assistance of set design: Gonzalo Cordoba Estevez
Production assistant: Rodrigo Pérez
Assistant director: Malena Juanatey
Executive production: Florencia Wasser
Concept, play & direction: Matías Umpierrez
Length: 75 minutes
Distancia is a production by Cultural San Martín and Goethe-Institut with the support of Panorama Sur and Institut Français D’Argentine